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the Covenanted Work of Reformation (from 1638 to 1649) in Britain and Ireland by Samuel Rutherford
Of the Samaritans, and of the Non
Compelling of Heathens; How the Covenant Bindeth Us. by Samuel Rutherford (This is chapter 21
from Samuel Rutherford's 1649 edition of A Free Disputation Against
Pretended Liberty of Conscience.
A number of the most important issues [which were at the very heart of the
covenanted Reformation] taking place in England, Scotland and Ireland during
the seventeenth century are discussed here. The battle between the
Presbyterians and the "Sectaries" [Independents] is also evident
throughout, while Rutherford's views on civil government, covenanting and civil
penal sanctions all play prominent roles in this chapter. If you are interested
in national [and international] Reformation this is one of the most thoroughly
thought out books ever penned regarding Christ's absolute Kingship over the
nations. It is also a eminently anti-egalitarian treatise [just like Scripture]
and it would be hard to find a better refutation of the antichristian,
democratic, tolerationist heresies that abound in our day. If the present
testimony regarding Christ's Kingship is your concern then this is the chapter
[and book] for you! Rutherford was one of the leading Scottish Covenanters, a
commissioner to the Westminster Assembly, and already internationally respected
as one of the foremost theologians of his day by the time he penned this famous
and controversial work.).
Sadness Because Christ's Headship Not
Set Forth -- His Cause Attended With Crosses -- The Believer Seen of All by Samuel Rutherford
(Letter CXV to Mr. Alexander Henderson excerpted from Rutherford's classic Letters. Henderson was the elder statesman of
the covenanting movement in Scotland during the mid 17th century. He was one of
the Scottish commissioners to the Westminster Assembly and also the primary
architect of the Solemn League and Covenant. The Solemn League and Covenant was
an international covenant binding England, Scotland, Ireland [and all their
posterity -- individual, ecclesiastical and civil] to Christ and the one true
Reformed religion. In recognizing Christ as King over the individual, church
and state, this covenant openly bound these nations under Christ's mediatorial
rule to obey all of God's Word and law and to testify to and uphold all the
Reformation attainments up to that day. It also bound the covenanters, English,
Irish and Scottish to continue on in Reformation. This lead to the production
and adoption of the Westminster Standards as part of the covenanted reformation
and uniformity that the "banders" had agreed to before God. Ecclesiastical
history has been pretty much one defection and deformation after another ever
since these momentous days -- Satan having stirred up the
Cromwellian/tolerationist/independent/sectarian forces on the one hand and the
Popish/Episcopal/Erastian/Royalist dupes on the other; all to bury the
covenanted reformation under the rubbish of one form of humanistic
antichristianism or another.)
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The Covenant of Life Opened;
Or, A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace, Containing Something of the Nature of
the Covenant of Works, the Sovereignty of God, the Extent of the Death of
CHRIST, the Nature & Properties of the Covenant of Grace: And Especially of
the Covenant of Suretyship or Redemption Between the LORD and the SON JESUS
CHRIST, and the Seal of Baptism: With some Practical Questions and Observations
(1655)
A exceedingly rare Covenanter classic! These are deep waters and this title is
recommended for those who have already developed some fair strength in swimming
the strong theological currents of the second Reformation. Containing some of
Rutherford's most mature thought, this book was published six years before
Rutherford passed on to glory.
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Letters of Samuel Rutherford
Spurgeon said, "What a wealth of spiritual ravishment we have here!
Rutherford is beyond all praise of men. Like a strong-winged eagle he soars
into the highest heaven and with unblenched eye he looks into the mystery of
love divine." Continuing, he comments, "let the world know that
Spurgeon held Rutherfurd's Letters
to be the nearest thing to inspiration which can be found in all the writings
of men... none penetrated further into the innermost heart of holy fellowship
with Jesus. Whenever we think of him we compare him to Milton's Uriel, the
angel that stood in the sun itself." Richard Baxter commented, "Hold
off the Bible, such a book as Mr. Rutherford's Letters, the world never saw the like." And
Cecil notes, "It is one of my classics. Were truth the beam, I have no
doubt that if Homer, and Virgil, and Horace, and all that the world has agreed
to idolize, were weighed against that book, they would be lighter than vanity.
He is a real original' (Remains
cited in Johnston's The Treasury of the Scottish Covenant). Walker adds his voice to this chorus
of praise calling these, "letters which, I may say, stand all alone in
religious literature... So far as I know, they are the only letters two
centuries old (when he wrote--RB) which are still a practical reality in the
religious life of Scotland, England, and America. And criticism cannot get rid
of the fact that they continue to retain their hold of human hearts, -- that
they have won a place for themselves besides such books as Augustine's
Confessions or Thomas a Kempis. (Theologians..., p. 8). This is the Banner of Truth
reprint and has been made from the 1891 edition of S.R.'s Letters. It contains Andrew Bonar's sketch of
Rutherford's life and biographical notices of his correspondence. It is
interesting to note that when these letters were first published in 1664 (note
the date, just two years after the great ejection), the book was titled Joshua
Redivivus (i.e. revived, RB) or Mr. Rutherford's Letters Divided into Two
Parts. The First, Containing those Which were Written from Aberdeen, Where He
was Confined by a Sentence of the High Commission, Drawn Forth Against Him,
Partly on the Account of His Declining them, Partly Upon the Account of His
Non-conformity. The Second, Containing, Some Which were Written from Anworth,
Before He was by the Prelates Persecution Thrust from His Ministry; and Others
Upon Diverse Occasions Afterward from St. Andrews, London, etc. Now Published,
for the Use of All the People of God; But More Particularly, for Those Who Now
Are, or Afterward May Be Put to Suffering for Christ and His Cause; By a Well
Wisher (Robert M'Ward--RB) to the Work of the People of God. These Scriptures followed to further
stress the point of this publication: "They shall put you out of the
synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he
doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have
not known the Father, nor me" (John 16:2-3); and "And ye became
followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction,
with joy of the Holy Ghost: So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in
Macedonia and Achaia" (1 Thes. 1:6-7). These letters were put out by
Covenanters, for Covenanters, in defense of the covenanted Reformation. They
were originally issued just three years after Rutherford's death, by his
disciple Robert M'Ward (the "Well Wisher" noted above in the original
title). We carry M'Ward's original 45 page preface to the Letters in our rare bound photocopy section
under "M'Ward" (this preface is not found in this more recent Banner
of Truth hardcover edition which recently went out of print). M'Ward, who was
banished to Holland (where he co-ministered with John Brown of Wamphray), notes
that his purpose in publishing the first edition of Rutherford's Letters (1664)
was to bring comfort and encouragement to those 2000 ministers recently ejected
for faithfulness to the Solemn League and Covenant. This was to be accomplished
by setting forth Rutherford's example of faithfulness, courage and zeal, as
seen throughout these letters, under similar circumstances of suffering. This
book was also intended to minister to the myriads of faithful Covenanters who
were at that time experiencing increasingly violent persecution and opposition.
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A Free Disputation Against
Pretended Liberty of Conscience (1649 edition.)
Rutherford's Free Disputation,
though scarce, is still one of his most important works -- with maybe only a
few copies of the actual book left in existence. Though Rutherford is
affectionately remembered in our day for his Letters, or for laying the foundations of
constitutional government (against the divine right of kings) in his
unsurpassed Lex Rex,
his Free Disputation
should not be overlooked -- for it contains the same searing insights as Lex
Rex. In fact, this book
should probably be known as Rutherford's "politically incorrect"
companion volume to Lex Rex.
A sort of sequel aimed at driving pluralists and antinomians insane. Written
against "the Belgick Arminians, Socinians, and other Authors contending
for lawlesse liberty, or licentious Tolerations of Sects and Heresies,"
Rutherford explains the undiluted Biblical solution to moral relativism,
especially as it is expressed in ecclesiastical and civil pluralism! (Corporate
pluralism being a violation of the first commandment and an affront to the holy
God of Scripture). He also deals with conscience, toleration, penology
(punishment), and the judicial laws, as related to both the civil and
ecclesiastical realms. Excellent sections are also included which address
questions related to determining the fundamentals of religion, how covenants
bind us, the perpetual obligation of social covenants (with direct application
to the Solemn League and Covenant and the covenant-breaking of Cromwell and his
sectarian supporters), whether the punishing of seducing teachers be
persecution of conscience, and much more. Walker adds these comments and
context regarding Rutherford's Free Disputation, "The principle of toleration was
beginning to be broached in England, and in a modified shape to find acceptance
there. Samuel Rutherford was alarmed, or rather, I should say, he was
horrified, for he neither feared the face of man or argument. He rushed to the
rescue of the good old view... It is not so easy to find a theoretical ground
for toleration; and Rutherford has many plausible things to say against it.
With the most perfect confidence, he argues that it is alike against Scripture
and common sense that you should have two religions side by side. It is
outrageous ecclesiastically, it is sinful civilly. He does not, however, take
what I call the essentially persecuting ground. He does not hold that the
magistrate is to punish religion as religion. Nay, he strongly maintains that
the civil magistrate never aims at the conscience. The magistrate, he urges,
does not send anyone, whether a heretic (who is a soul murderer--RB) or a
murderer, to the scaffold with the idea of producing conversion or other
spiritual result, but to strengthen the foundations of civil order. But if he
gives so much power to the king, he is no lover of despotism withal: the king
himself must be under law. To vindicate this great doctrine is the object of
another book, the celebrated Lex Rex; of which it has been said by one competent to judge, that
it first clearly developed the constitutionalism which all men now accept"
(Theology and Theologians...,
pp. 11-12). In our day Francis Schaeffer, and numerous others, have critiqued
many of the problems found in modern society, but most have spent little time
developing explicitly Biblical solutions -- especially regarding the
theoretical foundations that Rutherford addresses here. Rutherford's Free
Disputation provides a
detailed blueprint for laying the foundations that must be laid before any
lasting, God-honoring solutions will be found. Furthermore, Rutherford and his
writings were the enemies of all governments not covenanted with Christ. This
book will give you a very clear picture as to why "the beast" (civil
and ecclesiastical) has reserved his special hatred for such teaching. As
Samuel Wylie noted "[t]he dispute, then, will not turn upon the point
whether religion should be civilly established... but it is concerning what
religion ought to be civilly established and protected, -- whether the religion
of Jesus alone should be countenanced by civil authority, or every blasphemous,
heretical, and idolatrous abomination which the subtle malignity of the old
serpent and a heart deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, can
frame and devise, should be put on an equal footing therewith" (Two
Sons of Oil: or, The Faithful Witness For Magistracy and Ministry Upon a
Scriptural Basis,
softcover). Can our generation swallow Rutherford's hard, anti-pluralistic,
Covenanter medicine, poured forth from the bottle of the first commandment,
without choking on their carnal dreams of a free and righteous society divorced
from God (and His absolute claims upon everyone and everything)? Not without
the enabling power of the Holy Spirit -- that is for sure! In summary, this
book answers all the hardest questions theonomists (and their wisest and best
opponents) have been asking for the last 20-30 years (and these answers are
much more in depth than any we have seen in the last couple of millennia [less
about a century to account for the apostles]). As the reader will discover,
Rutherford was a wealthy man when it came to wisdom (and much advanced
theologically), and those who take the time to gaze into the King's treasure
house, as exhibited in this book, will find that they are greatly rewarded.
Furthermore, because of its uncompromising stand upon the Word of God, this
book is sure to be unpopular among a wicked and adulterous generation. However,
on the other hand, it is sure to be popular among the covenanted servants of
King Jesus! This is one of the best books (in the top five anyway) for advanced
study of the Christian faith. We have now obtained an easy-to-read, amazingly
clear copy of this very rare, old treasure. Great price too, considering that a
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