Founding Father Benjamin Rush's handwritten personal Bible study booklet entitled “References to Texts of Scriptures Related to Each Other Upon Particular Subjects.” In it he listed scriptures under various topics and wrote his own notes on those scriptures. We have included excerpts of the booklet below.

Booklet Cover

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Rush recorded three pages of scriptures and notes regarding “Atonement”

“Universal Salvation”

Rush cataloged scriptures such as Exodus 32:11-12; Romans 5:3-4; Isaiah 49:6,8-9; Matthew 15:13; etc. under the title “Universal Salvation”

“Objects of Prayer” & “Influences of Religion on Family Prosperity”

Rush's notes on scripture passages related to prayer and God's blessings (Note: nail used in book seam)

“Kindness to Strangers”

Rush lists Leviticus 19:33, Exodus 12:49, Deuteronomy 23:7 and other verses under the heading “Kindness to Strangers”

“Efficacy of Prayer”

Rush's scriptures on the effectiveness of prayer include Genesis chapter 18 and 21:17 & 21.

Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) Rush was a physician, educator, philanthropist, and statesman. He graduated from Princeton (1760) and then studied medicine in Philadelphia, Edinburgh, London, and Paris. He served in the Continental Congress (1776-77) and signed the Declaration of Independence (1776). Rush also: suggested to Thomas Paine that he write Common Sense (1776) and supplied the title for it as well as helped publish it; was Surgeon-General of the Continental Army (1777-78); and was one of the founders of Dickinson College (1783). He was an influential delegate to the State ratification convention for the federal Constitution (1787), and along with James Wilson, one of the principal coauthors of the Pennsylvania constitution (1789-90). Rush served as Treasurer of the U. S. Mint under Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison (1797-1813). He mediated a reconciliation between long time political rivals John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; was a founder of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (1774) and its president; founder and Vice-president of the Philadelphia Bible Society (1808-13); member of the First Day Society of Philadelphia (1790); and a member of the Abolition Society (1794-97). Benjamin Rush is called the “Father of American Medicine” for his numerous medical discoveries.