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Letters, Revised and Ed. by T. Smith. Complete Ed
Letters Revised and Ed by T Smith Complete Ed Author:Samuel Rutherford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 2. The vast majority of those who will read the Letters, will read them not as an aid to the study of the history of the period, but as a precious record of very peculiar Christian experience. 3. Supposing that an approximately accurate arrangement could be made, and admitting that it would, to some extent, cast light upon the history of the time, and upon the development of the writer's character, it would entail the vitiation of many references made to the Letters in subsequent publications. In this respect the matter is precisely parallel to the division of the Bible into chapters and verses. I suppose we have all felt that that division is not in every case very happily made; but it is manifest that an alteration, which would throw into confusion the innumerable references contained in all our theological and religious books, would be an unspeakable evil. The evil of altering the order of these Letters would be similar in kind, though, of course, immeasurably less in degree. For these reasons I have thought it better to retain the old order, although it is properly no order at all. I have thought that the value of the edition will be enhanced by prefixing to the Letters three short documents, viz.: -- I. Woodrow's brief Account of Rutherford's Life and Character. II. An Account of the Last Words of Rutherford. III. Rutherford's Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation, from 1638 to 1649, in Britain and Ireland. And now I have only to express my very earnest desire that this edition, which is, I trust, as accurate as any, which is as complete as the completest, and more so than any, e...« less