Grace In Winter
Rutherford in Verse
Weight | 0.24 kg |
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Dimensions | 22.3 × 14.3 × 1.3 cm |
ISBN | 9780851515557 |
Binding | Cloth-bound |
Format | Book |
Page Count | 96 |
Original Pub Date | 1661 |
Banner Pub Date | Jun 1, 1989 |
Book Description
By any standard, Samuel Rutherford was a remarkable Christian: as a pastor he was devoted to his congregation in Anwoth, Scotland; as a leading churchman he was selected in 1643 as a member of the Scottish delegation to the famous Westminster Assembly; as a scholar he was offered some of the most distinguished professorships in Europe; as a letter writer Samuel Rutherford stands second to none in the galaxy of those whose personal correspondence has appeared in published form.
Yet, perhaps the description which would have most encouraged and humbled Rutherford himself came from the lips of a visiting Englishman who said of him that he ‘heard a little fair man, and he showed me the loveliness of Christ’.
Rutherford knew that the heart of Christian experience is in union and communion with Christ. He saw, with the apostle Paul, that only those who share in the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings experience the power of his resurrection. To him, joy in the Lord and suffering for him were inseparable elements of Christian experience. ‘Grace’ he wrote out of deep personal experience, ‘grows best in winter’.
In these pages, Faith Cook has sensitively transformed Rutherford’s eloquent prose into the form of poetry, and provided cameo portraits of his correspondents. Grace in Winter not only gives pleasure and joy because of its poetry; it also shares the encouragement, comfort and wisdom of Rutherford’s own ministry.
Table of Contents Expand ↓
Samuel Rutherford | 15 | |
A Pastor’s Prayer | ||
Wrestling to Believe | ||
The Exiled Pastor | ||
Heaven on Earth | ||
Christ Altogether Lovely | ||
Lady Kenmure | 27 | |
The Thorny Hedge | ||
God’s Strange Ways | ||
True Consolation | ||
The End of the Journey | ||
Past Finding Out | ||
Christ Shares His People’s Sorrows | ||
God’s Purposes in Trial | ||
The Pilgrim Path | ||
The Last River | ||
Fruits of Glory | ||
Lady Boyd | 42 | |
Joy and Sorrow | ||
The Presence of Christ | ||
Anticipation of Heaven | ||
Immanuel’s Land | ||
A Prayer for Revival | ||
Marion M’Naught | 51 | |
Unforgotten Prayers | ||
John Gordon of Cardoness | 55 | |
Earnest Entreaties with a Friend | ||
Stray Affections | ||
William Gordon of Earlston | 60 | |
A Prisoner of Hope | ||
Lady Culross | 63 | |
An Absent Christ | ||
The Banished Pastor’s Consolation | ||
Lady Robertland | 67 | |
Christ’s Secret Gate | ||
John Kennedy of Ayr | 69 | |
Die Well | ||
George Gillespie | 73 | |
To a Dying Friend Robert | ||
Gordon of Knockbrex | 77 | |
The Trial of Grace | ||
Alexander Gordon of Knockgray | 79 | |
When Christ Comes | ||
John Gordon at Rusco | 82 | |
This Vain World | ||
Other Correspondents | 86 | |
Christ’s Rough Serjeants | ||
Through Brier and Bush | ||
For Me to Live is Christ | ||
The Greatest Temptation |
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