Exercitationes Apologeticae Pro Divina Gratia... Adversus Jacobum Arminium ejusque asseclas, & Jesuitas… Apologetical exercises on behalf of divine grace, against James Arminius and his followers, and the Jesuits (1636, 1651 edition)

In English (NOTE: This book is written entirely in LATIN) this title reads "Apologetical exercises on behalf of divine grace, against James Arminius and his followers, and the Jesuits" (as translated by Thomas Roche).

An elaborate treatise against Arminianism. It provoked the hostility of Sydserf, Bishop of Galloway, who summoned the author before the High Commission Court. Rutherford was banished to Aberdeen, the stronghold of prelacy, where he wrote his Letters (see below for this title), and carried on a discussion with the Aberdeen doctors, overmatching them on all points of the controversy.

The book established his fame, and brought him back from Antwoth, (whither he had ventured after the overthrow of Prelacy), to the chair of divinity in St. Andrews" (Johnston, Treasury of the Scottish Covenant, p. 308. Maclean, in "Arminianism: Another Gospel," writes, "As a direct result of his book against Arminianism, Rutherford was put through the form of a 'Trial' by a group of Arminian bishops who were led by Sydserff of Galloway, deprived of his pastoral charge at Anwoth and banished to the town of Aberdeen.

In a letter Rutherford wrote to a minister in Ireland, Robert Cunningham, he says: 'The cause that ripened their hatred was my book against the Arminians, whereof they accused me, on those three days I appeared before them,' and in a letter from Aberdeen in 1637 to Mr. John Ferguson of Ochiltree, Rutherford refers to his trial, saying, "I was judicially accused for my book against the Arminians, and commanded by the Chancellor to acknowledge I had done a fault in writing against Dr. Jackson, a wicked Arminian."

Someone would do the world a great service by translating this book into English.

558 pages.