This collection of sermons, published first in 1885, was taken from a volume of manuscripts compiled in shorthand by a listener. Among the eighteen sermons are: “Fear Not,” “Weeping Mary at the Sepulcher,” “The Forlorn Son,” “The Apostle’s Choice,” and “The Spouse’s Longing for Christ.” The warmth of Rutherford’s preaching is evident in this collection.

Author  Samuel Rutherford was born of farming parents in Nisbet in 1600. He entered Edinburgh University in 1617, graduated with a Master's degree in 1621, and two years later was appointed professor of Latin at that same university. He was ordained at Antworth in 1627, and ministered there until he was deposed for nonconformity in 1636, and was confined to prison, from where he wrote his famous Letters. Eighteen months after being released in 1638, he was appointed professor of divinity at St. Andrews. In 1643 he went to London as one of the Scotttish commissioners ot the Westminster Assembly of Divines. Rutherford died on March 29, 1661.