David Dickson's commentary series, lost volume by Robert Douglas

[NaphtaliPress]

David Dickson envisioned a common peoples set of commentaries on books of the Bible. Of those not published and said to be now lost are Robert Blair on Proverbs and Samuel Rutherford on Isaiah; a third author mentioned is Robert Douglass, whose contribution is also considered lost but I've never found what book was assigned to him. Any one know?

 

[MW]

Wodrow's Life of Dickson only relates the assigned authors, but it piques interest when it says that some remain in MS.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

I have not read that Blair's is lost, which his life says was completed when he died in 1666. But M'Ward mourns the loss of the Rutherford as a fact apparently in an edition of R's Letters. I have not found the text to know how sure M'Ward was. The Rutherford on Isaiah would certainly be a find.

 

[MW]

In Lorimer's work on the Protestant church of France, the following notice appears in relation to the post-Revolution Church of Scotland: "Directions were given to obtain the manuscript writings of the eminent Samuel Rutherford on Esther and Isaiah." Regrettably no references are provided.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Interesting. With all that Wodrow collected you'd think he'd have found these MS if they were still extant in 1700+. But apparently M'Ward knew at the time he prefaced an early edition of R's letters that the MS was lost.

 

[Wayne]

What about Dr. Williams' library?

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