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Many today remember Samuel Rutherford as the great 17th-century theologian and member of the Westminster Assembly. But it was his work while out of the limelight and laboring in prison that most impacts the church today.
Rutherford developed a knack for finding a wounded soul, applying the balm of Scripture to fix it, and then expressing this Christ-centered medicine through pen and ink. This resulted in The Letters of Samuel Rutherford, widely considered a classic of Protestant piety. These letters of encouragement to fellow Christians stand today as a citadel of edification for the down and hurting.