Required reading
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Letters 28 to 30.
My summary
Today we read letters addressed to:
(i) Boyd;
(ii) Stuart;
(iii) Dickson.
The letters speak of:
(i) the things learnt in suffering;
(ii) the suffering of Rutherford;
(iii) the sinfulness of Rutherford;
(iv) the riches of Christ.
What grabbed me
Rutherford was very honest about his sinfulness: 'I have seen my abominable vileness ; if I were well known, there would none in this kingdom ask how I do. Many take my ten to be a hundred, but I am a deeper hypocrite, and shallower professor, than every one believeth. God knoweth I feign not. But I think my reckonings on the one page written in great letters, and His mercy to such a forlorn and wretched bankrupt on the other, to be more than a miracle. If I could get my finger-ends upon a full assurance, I trow that I would grip fast ; but my cup wanteth not gall. And, upon my part, despair might be almost excused, if every one in this land saw my inner side. But I know that I am one of them who have made great sale, and a free market, to free grace. If I could be saved, as I would fain believe, sure I am that I have given Christ's blood, His free grace, and the bowels of His mercy, a large field to work upon ; and Christ hath manifested His art, I dare not say to the uttermost (for He can, if He would, forgive all the devils and damned reprobates, in respect of the wideness of His mercy), but I say to an admirable degree. '
We may be great sinners, but Christ is a greater saviour!
Next week's reading
Read Letters 31 to 33.
Now it's your turn
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