Rutherford's actual letters start on message 9 of 64.
This message (#5) contains the ending of a postscript from earlier editions of this work (thought to be written by Robert M'Ward), as well as the first part of Rutherford's 'Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation Between 1638-1649 in Britain and Ireland.'
This second item is Rutherford's dying testimony. It sets forth what he thought most important to communicate in his last earthly words.
Rutherford was one of the Scottish commissioners to the Westminster Assembly and has been acknowledged by many Reformed theologians since his time as a theological genius of the first order. Walker said of Rutherford, 'It is not easy to find any one in Church history with whom to compare this remarkable man... [He was] the greatest scholastic of our Presbyterian Church, and yet we are told, the plain and faithful preacher, the fieriest of Church leaders and the most devout of saints, equally at home among the tomes of Aquinas, and writing letters to a poor congregation. Altogether a sort of intellectual, theological, religious prodigy!' (Theology and Theologians of Scotland 1560-1750, p. 13).
For additional information or resources about Samuel Rutherford, please visit SWRB's home page at the 'Outside Web Link' below.
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