Letters of Samuel Rutherford: (Third Edition)Rutherford, Samuel
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Letters of Samuel Rutherford: (Third Edition)
Rutherford, Samuel
Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661 -- Correspondence
Let God have His own; and ask
of Him, instead of your daughter which He hath taken from you, the
daughter of faith, which is patience; and in patience possess your
soul. Lift up your head: ye do not know how near your redemption doth
draw, Thus recommending you to the Lord, who is able to establish you,
I rest, your loving and affectionate friend in the Lord Jesus,
ANWOTH, _April 23, 1628_.
S. R.
[85] So in his "sermon before the House of Lords," 1645: "Faith
thinketh no evil of Christ." Also Letters XX. and XCII.: "Love
believeth no evil."
[Illustration: KENMURE HOUSE.]
III.--_To the_ VISCOUNTESS OF KENMURE, _on occasion of illness and
spiritual depression_.
[LADY JANE CAMPBELL, Viscountess of Kenmure, was the third
daughter of Archibald Campbell, seventh Earl of Argyle, and
sister to the Marquis of Argyle who was beheaded in 1661. She was
a woman distinguished, in her day, for the depth of her piety,
and her warm attachment to the Presbyterian interest in Scotland.
Nor was she less distinguished for generosity and munificence,
than for piety. Her bounty was in a particular manner extended to
those whom suffering for conscience' sake had reduced to poverty
or exile. In the year 1628 she was married to Sir John Gordon of
Lochinvar, afterwards Viscount Kenmure and Lord Gordon of
Lochinvar, which is not far from Carsphairn. This union did not
last many years. In 1634 she became a widow, his Lordship having
died at Kenmure Castle, on the 12th of September that year, in
the 35th year of his age. But her sorrow on this occasion was
alleviated by the Christian resignation and faith which he was
enabled to exercise under his last illness. To this noble man she
had two daughters, who died in infancy, one about the beginning
of the year 1629, and the other in 1634, as may be gathered from
allusions to these bereavements, contained in two consolatory
letters written to her by Rutherford in these years. She had
also, by the same marriage, a son, John, second Viscount of
Kenmure, who, however, died under age and unmarried, in August
1649. This event forms the subject of a letter written to her by
Rutherford the 1st of October that year. She married a second
husband, on the 21st of September 1640, the Hon. Sir Henry
Montgomery of Giffen, second son of Alexander, fifth Earl of
Eglinton; but this marriage was without issue. Sir Henry's
religious views were congenial to her own; and he is described as
an "active and faithful friend of the Lord's kirk." She was soon
left a widow a second time, in which state she lived till a very
venerable age, having survived the Restoration a number of years,
as appears from the fact that Livingstone, at the time of his
death (which took place at Rotterdam in 1672), speaks of her as
the oldest acquaintance he then had alive in Scotland.
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