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  XIV. TO LADY KENMURE
  by Samuel Rutherford
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Summary: Samuel Rutherford's letter to Lady Kenmure encourages her to
seek Christ's mercy amidst her struggles and affirms her identity as a
beloved child of God.

Topics: "Christian Encouragement", "Faith Growth"
Scripture References: Psalm 133:1, Proverbs 3:18, John 15:4, John 20:29, Hebrews 12:8

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DESCRIPTION
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Samuel Rutherford, a prisoner of Christ, writes a letter filled with
grace, mercy, and peace to a lady, encouraging her to continue learning
and growing in her faith despite her troubles. He assures her that
Christ is keeping mercy for her and urges her to love Him dearly,
emphasizing that there is more to be seen and felt in Him. Rutherford
expresses his longing to hear about the lady's child and sends blessings
and mercies from God to the child.

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CONTENT
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MADAM, -- Grace, mercy and peace be to you. I received your Ladyship's

letter. It refreshed me in my heaviness. The blessing and prayer of a

prisoner of Christ come upon you. Nothing grieveth me but that I eat my

feasts my lone, and that I cannot edify His saints. My silence eats me

up, but He has told me He thanketh me no less than if I were preaching

daily.

Your Ladyship wrote to me that ye are yet an ill scholar. Madam, ye

must go in at heaven's gates, and your book in your hand, still

learning. You have had your own large share of troubles, and a double

portion; but it saith your Father counteth you not a bastard;

full-begotten bairns are nurtured (Heb. 12.8). I long to hear of the

child. I write the blessings of Christ's prisoner and the mercies of

God to him.

Madam, it is not long since I did write to your Ladyship that Christ

is keeping mercy for you; and I bide by it still, and now I write it

under my hand. Love Him dearly. Win in to see Him; there is in Him that

which you never saw. He is aye nigh; He is a tree of life, green and

blossoming, both summer and winter. There is a nick in Christianity, to

the which whosoever cometh, they see and feel more than others can do.

Now the blessing of our dearest Lord Jesus, and the blessing of him

that is 'separate from his brethren', come upon you.

Yours, at Aberdeen, the prisoner of Christ.

ABERDEEN

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/samuel-rutherford/xiv-to-lady-kenmure/
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