Samsons riddle, or, A bunch of bitter wormwood, bringing forth a bundle of sweet smelling myrrh. : The first is made up of the sharpe sufferings, of the Lords church in Scotland: by the hands of barbarous and bloody persecutors, evident by the exact copies of the inditements, sentences, executions, and deposing of their members who were executed, to be sett up in the publick places of that land: together with the forfaultries, and gifts of there estates to others: extracted out of their own registers, and here inserted. The second of the savorie testimonies of those sufferers, who witnessed a good confession, patiently enduring, through the sight of an invisible God, signally supporting them, as appeareth both by there letters, and written testimonies directed to, and left with there friends, to be published to the world; as it is here performed..
Rutherford, Samuel,1600?-1661.
Chapman, George,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.d.1
Wodrow, Robert, ǂd 1679-1734,former owner.StEdNL: 1.299(1)
[Edinburgh?] : s.n.,
Printed in the Year [1678?]
Place and date of publication from Wing.
Microfilm reproduction [of original in Huntington Library], on UMI Early English books reel 801, apparently has leaf [V]1 cancelled and replaced by quire V⁴.
Text stops midsentence at foot of leaf V4v.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
ESTC
With a MS note at top of page facing front pastedown: by Samuel Rutherford and another, inserted between titlepage and leaf *2: Samson's Riddle. Note in Dr. Laing's copy ... "This work has no date but was evidently printed in Holland, in or subsequent to the year 1678 and appears never to have been completed. The duplicate leaf, marked page 153, inserted from another copy at the end, might indeed suggest that copies had been circulated as a complete work but no copy has been met with extending beyond page 160 which breaks off in the middle of a sentenc. A copy was sold at Mr Maidment's [?] sale (Chapman's Edition) for 44/- in May 1880. See [?]'s Hist: Vol II p. 39.
With various MS notes including, on verso of front free endpaper: A very rare & singular tract printed in Holland c. 1678. This was George Chapman's copy. See his note opposite. Also with extracts from booksellers' catalogues pasted onto front free endpaper.
A list of contents and numbers are inscribed on the recto of the flyleaf in the hand of Robert Wodrow.
Church of Scotland
Scotland Edinburgh.