“The greatest part but play with Christianity” — Rutherford Thursdays No. 19

To Lady Kenmure
Madam,
I hope that ye are wrestling and struggling on, in this dead age, wherein folks have lost tongue, and legs, and arms for Christ. I urge upon you, Madam, a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion.
There are curtains to be drawn by in Christ, that we never saw, [...]

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“the devil’s stomach cannot digest the Church of God” – Rutherford Thursdays No. 16

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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“a sufferer for Christ will be made to know himself” – Rutherford Thursdays No. 15

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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“I am a fool, and He is God” – Rutherford Thursdays No. 13

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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“Welcome, Welcome, Sweet, Sweet and Glorious Cross of Christ” – Rutherford Thursdays No. 12

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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On facing exile from his church – To Lady Kenmure – Rutherford Thursdays No. 11

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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Rutherford Thursdays #5: To Lady Kenmure – “Welcome, Jesus, what way soever Thou come”

Letter # 5
MADAM, – Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied upon you.
I received your Ladyship’s letter, in the which I perceive your case in this world smelleth of a fellowship and communion with the Son of God in His sufferings. Ye cannot, ye must not, have a more pleasant or more easy condition here, than [...]

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Rutherford Thursdays #3: To Marion McNaught, when his wife was ill

Letter #3
Loving and Dear Sister,
If ever you would pleasure me, entreat the Lord for me, now when I am so comfortless, and so full of heaviness, that I am not able to stand under the burthen any longer. The Almighty hath doubled His stripes upon me, for my wife is so sore tormented night and [...]

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Rutherford Thursdays #2: To Lady Kenmure, on the occasion of the death of her infant daughter

Letter #2
MADAM, – Saluting your Ladyship with grace and mercy from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
I was sorry, at my departure, leaving your Ladyship in grief, and would be still grieved at it if I were not assured that ye have one with you in the furnace whose visage is like [...]

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