Required reading
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Letters 5 to 7.
My summary
Today we read letters to
(i) M'Naught;
(ii) Kennedy;
(iii) Kenmure.
The subjects of the letters include:
(i) the government's proposed use of a prayer book;
(ii) comfort in physical trials;
(iii) a call to prayer and fasting.
What grabbed me
I was interested to read Rutherford's proposal for special prayer and fasting: 'Having received a letter from some of the worthiest of the ministry in this kingdom, the contents whereof I am desired to communicate to such professors in these parts as I know love the beauty of Zion, and are afflicted to see the Lord's vineyard trodden under foot by the wild boars out of the wood, who lay it waste, I could not but also desire your Ladyship's help to join with the rest, desiring you to impart it to my Lord your husband, and if ye think it needful, I shall write to his Lordship, as Mr. G. G. shall advertise me. Know, therefore, that the best affected of the ministry have thought it convenient and necessary, at such a time as this, that all who love the truth should join their prayers together, and cry to God with humiliation and fasting. The times, which are agreed upon, are the two first Sabbaths of February next, and the six days intervening betwixt these Sabbaths, as they may conveniently be had, and the first Sabbath of every quarter.'
Not your typical response to trouble.
Next week's reading
Read Letters 8 to 12.
Now it's your turn
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