Required reading
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Letters 44 to 47.
My summary
Today we read letters addressed to:
(i) Fulk Ellis;
(ii) James Lindsay;
(iii) James Hamilton;
(iv) Lady Gaitgirth.
Rutherford spoke about:
(i) the church in Ireland;
(ii) heart-atheism;
(iii) desertions of God;
(iv) access that reprobates have to Christ;
(v) Christ's glory;
(vi) suffering.
What grabbed me
I liked Rutherford's affirmation of Christ's glory despite our sin: 'I am laid low, when I remember what I am, and that my outside casteth such a lustre when I find so little within. It is a wonder that Christ's glory is not defiled, running through such an unclean and impure channel. But I see that Christ will be Christ, in the dreg and refuse of men. His art, His shining wisdom, His beauty, speak loudest in blackness, weakness, deadness, yea, in nothing. I see nothing, no money, no worth, no good, no life, no deserving, is the ground that Omnipotency delighteth to draw glory out of.'
Where sin increases, grace increases all the more!
Next week's reading
Read Letters 48 to 52.
Now it's your turn
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