The Loveliness of Christ

Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford.The
Loveliness of Christ is a beautiful little gift book containing short
extracts selected by Ellen S. Lister in which some of Rutherford's most helpful
thoughts are allowed to stand out in their unadorned wisdom and power. Those
familiar with Andrew Bonar's great nineteenth-century collection of the Letters
of Samuel Rutherford will feel that this setting of brief quotations makes
Rutherford's words sparkle like diamonds on a dark cloth in a jeweller's shop.
It is not surprising then, that a hundred years ago, H.C.G. Moule, the Anglican
Bishop of Durham, said in his simple but elegant commendation of the original
edition of The Loveliness of Christ that it was 'a small casket stored
with many jewels'. It is the publisher's wish that the reader, in meditating on
these pages, will find here help, comfort, wise counsel, and spiritual compass,
and to say with Rutherford, 'Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His
love hath neither brim nor bottom.''Surprising though it may seem in a
world of large books, of all those owned by our family this may be the one we
have most often lent or quoted to friends. It is full of rich spiritual wisdom
and insight culled from the experience of a man who knew both the sorrows of
life and the joys of faith in great abundance [...]. I pray that many
readers will find here the help, comfort, wise counsel, and spiritual compass
that we and our friends have so often discovered in meditating on these
pages.' - Sinclair FergusonRecommended € 14,90