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Updated: June 28, 2025

But all this, to use a figure familiar among the Puritans of that day, only made Rutherford's true life return, like sap in winter, into its proper root, till we read in his later Aberdeen letters a rapture and a richness that his remain-at-home correspondents are fain to tone down. Not only does true grace grow best in winter, but winter is the best season for planting grace.

Alexander Whyte - Samuel Rutherford: and some of his correspondents