Among the posthumous Works of Mr Rutherford, are, His Letters; The Trial and Triumph of Faith; Christ's Dying and Drawing of Sinners; a discourse on Prayer; a discourse on the Covenant; on Liberty of Conscience; a Survey of Spiritual Antichrist; a Survey of Antinomianism; Antichrist Stormed; and several other controversial pieces, as Lex Rex; The Due Right of Church Government; The Divine Right of Church Government; A Peaceable Plea for Presbytery; as also his Summary of Church Discipline, and A treatise on the Divine Influence of the Spirit. There are also many of his sermons in print, some of which were preached before both Houses of Parliament, 1644 and 1645. There is also a volume of Sermons, Sacramental Discourses, etc |
"Rutherford's Walk" near Anwoth, where he was wont to meditate. See Photos for more of Anwoth. |
On this Web site we have the
following short works - some of them not so short....
A Biography - by John Howie, from
Scots Worthies Biography in short - by William Carson Shorter Biography - with short list of Works. A Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation The Deliverance of the Kirk Extract From "Weeping Mary at the Sepulchre" All of "Weeping Mary at the Sepulchre" Andrew Thomson's "Life of Samuel Rutherford" |
Letters |
Useful Links
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/wcarson/ruthf.htm
Sketch of his life.
http://www.puritansermons.com/ruth/ruth6.htm
life and times
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/m.sion/ruthlett.htm
selections from his letters
http://americanvision.org/biblical_worldview/BWV-99/BWV08-4.html
on Christian Resistance.
http://members.aol.com/RSISBELL/due1.html
on "Due Right of Presbyteries"
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/rutherford.html
On Lawful Right to Resist - or "Lex Rex"
http://www.constitution.org/sr/lexrex.htm
Another site with Lex Rex, including the Greek and Hebrew, fonts
required!