To Robert Gordon of Knockbrex - Seeing Christ more clearly through tribulation’s lens
My Very Worthy and Dear Friend,
Grace, mercy, and peace be to you. Though all Galloway should have forgotten me, I would have expected a letter from you ere now; but I will not expound it to be forgetfulness of me.
Now, my dear brother, [...]
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Posted in Ecclesiology, Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, Pilgrim Praxis, Providence, Sacra Scriptura, Samuel Rutherford, Sola Fide, tagged Christianity, religion, suffering on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To Mr. Robert Blair - The Other Half of Our Ministry
Reverend and Dearly Beloved Brother,
Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, be unto you.
It is no great wonder, my dear brother, that ye be in heaviness for a season, and that God’s will (in crossing your design and [...]
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Posted in Epistemology, Mortification of Sin, Pilgrim Praxis, Samuel Rutherford, Sola Fide, tagged Christianity, knowledge, Reformed, religion, suffering on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
To Lady Boyd - Knowing One’s Self in Suffering
Madam,
Grace, mercy and peace be unto you.
The Lord has brought me to Aberdeen, where I see God in few. This town has been advised upon of purpose for me; it consisteth either of Papists, or men of Gallio’s naughty faith. It is counted wisdom, in the most, [...]
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To Lady Kenmure - Ill Scholars in Christ’s School
Madam,
Grace, mercy and peace be to you. I received your Ladyship’s letter. It refreshed me in my heaviness. The blessing and prayer of a prisoner of Christ come upon you.
Nothing grieveth me but that I eat my feasts my lone, and that I cannot edify His saints. [...]
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Posted in Pilgrim Praxis, Preaching, Samuel Rutherford, Sola Fide, tagged Christian life, Christianity, Cross, Reformed, religion, suffering on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
To Lady Kenmure - While Exiled at Aberdeen
My Very Honorable and Dear Lady,
Grace, mercy, and peace be to you.
I cannot forget your Ladyship, and that sweet child. I desire to hear what the Lord is doing to you and him. To write to me were charity. I cannot but write to my friends, that Christ [...]
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To Lady Kenmure On the Eve of Banishment to Aberdeen
Noble and Elect Lady,
That honor that I have prayed for these sixteen years, with submission to my Lord’s will, my kind Lord has now bestowed upon me, even to suffer for my royal and princely King Jesus, and for His kingly crown, and [...]
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Letter #11: “I desire not to go on the lee-side or sunny side of religion”
Madam,
My humble obedience in the Lord remembered. Know it has pleased the Lord to let me see, by all appearance, that my labours in God’s house here are at an end; and I must now learn to suffer, in the which [...]
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Letter # 10: “the God of all consolations”
My very noble and worthy Lady,
So oft as I call to mind the comforts that I myself, a poor friendless stranger, received from your Ladyship here in a strange part of the country, when my Lord took from me the delight of mine eyes (Ezek. 24.1), as the [...]
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Letter #8: “Ye contracted with Christ”
My Loving and Most Affectionate Brother in Christ — I salute you with grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
I promised to write to you, and although late enough, yet I now make it good. I heard with grief of your great danger [...]
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Letter #7
MADAM,
I would not omit the opportunity of remembering your Ladyship, still harping upon that string, which in our whole lifetime is never too often touched upon (nor is our lesson well enough learned), that there is a necessity of advancing in the way to the kingdom of God, of the contempt [...]
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