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	Samuel Rutherford - Main Page
		Rutherford had to lay his account with suffering; for as the Lord would not hide from his faithful servant Abraham the things he was about to do, neither would he conceal from this son of Abraham what his purposes were concerning him.
		Samuel Rutherford was also one of the Scots commissioner.—"appointed in 1643 to the Westminster Assembly, and was very much beloved there for unparalleled faithfulness and zeal in going about his Master's business.
		Thus died the famous Rev. Samuel Rutherford, who may justly be accounted among the sufferers of that time; for surely he was a martyr, both in his own design and resolution, and by the design and determination of men.
	www.apuritansmind.com /SamuelRutherford/SamuelRutherfordMainPage.htm (3100 words)

	Rev. Samuel Rutherford
		Mr Rutherford immediately consented and brought the poor man into the kitchen where he might be fed. Mrs Rutherford, according to her custom on a Saturday evening, was examining the servants on their religious knowledge in order that they may be suitably prepared for the Sabbath.
		Samuel Rutherford had returned from Aberdeen to Anwoth after the National Covenant was renewed and was one of the commissioners to that famous Assembly, which met in Glasgow on November 21.
		“He [Samuel Rutherford] was, in January, 1649, at the recommendation of the commission of the general assembly, appointed principal of the New college, of which he was already professor of divinity; and not long after, he was elevated to the rectorship of the university.
	hunthill.4t.com /photo3.html (5475 words)

	Samuel Rutherford - From Birth to New Birth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Samuel Rutherford, renowned as "the saint of the Covenant", was one of the greatest men that Scotland ever saw, whether considered as a preacher, theologian, devotional writer or political theorist.
		Rutherford was born in the parish of Nisbet, not far from the English border in the south east of Scotland.
		Rutherford was first educated in the grammar school in Jedburgh, where, as Andrew Thomson notes, the master "soon discovered in the farmer's son the signs of remarkable natural abilities, and year after year confirmed him in his belief that he was dealing with a mind of no common order".
	www.fpchurch.org.uk /EbBI/fpm/2002/December/article3.htm (1494 words)

	Sketch of the life of Samuel Rutherford
		In 1627, Rutherford was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel, and through the influence of John Gordon of Kenmure, (afterwards Viscount Kenmure,) appointed to a church in the parish of Anwoth, in Kirkcudbright.
		Rutherford was deputed one of the commissioners from the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright to the famous General Assembly of 1638, which was convened at Glasgow on the 21st of November.
		Rutherford himself was deprived of his offices both in the University and the Church, and his stipend confiscated; he was ordered to confine himself within his own house, and was summoned to appear before the Parliament at Edinburgh, to answer a charge of high treason.
	www.constitution.org /sr/sketch.htm (3137 words)

	Preached Covenant: Part II
		Samuel Rutherford (1600-61) expounded the promises and condition of the covenant of grace in his full-length treatment of covenant theology entitled The Covenant of Life Opened (1655), written less than a decade after the Westminster standards.
		Rutherford was also the author of several volumes written against the Separatist theory of church order, which depicted the church visible as made up of those who had already appropriated the substance of the covenant.
		Rutherford speaks of the preaching of the Word in the visible church as a draw-net, gathering the elect "by a visibly and audibly preached covenant."(10) Christ's church is the work-house of grace, where the Lord uses the means of grace to bring sinners to an internal appropriation of the covenant.
	members.aol.com /RSISBELL/preach2.html (2467 words)

	Significant Scots - Samuel Rutherford
		Rutherford, in returning to the former scene of his professorial and pastoral labours, must have felt agreeably relieved from the business and the bustle of a popular assembly, and hoped, probably, that now he might rest in his lot.
		Rutherford was at the same time deprived of his situation in the college, his stipend confiscated, himself confined to his own house, and cited to appear before the ensuing parliament, on a charge of high treason.
		Mr Rutherford was unquestionably one of the most able, learned, and consistent presbyterians of his age; while in his Familiar Letters, published posthumously, he evinces a fervour of feeling and fancy, that, in other circumstances, and otherwise exerted, would have ranked among the most successful cultivators of literature.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/other/rutherford_samuel.htm (2778 words)

	Samuel Rutherford on God's Law and Political Authority -NRA
		Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who played an instrumental role in resisting the tyranny of the Tudor kings and formulating the doctrine of the Westminster Confession, the most widely used catechism in the Western world.
		Samuel Rutherford was in many ways the heir and expositor of the legacy left by his predecessor John Knox (1513-1572) in the previous century.
		Rutherford is to be praised for his teaching that the king is subject to the law of God.
	www.natreformassn.org /statesman/03/rpolauth.html (1094 words)

	Samuel Rutherford (Covenanter and Westminster Divine) (Summaries by Reg Barrow)
		Rutherford was one of the leading Scottish Covenanters, a commissioner to the Westminster Assembly, and already internationally respected as one of the foremost theologians of his day by the time he penned this famous and controversial work.).
		Rutherford's Free Disputation, though scarce, is still one of his most important works — with maybe only a few copies of the actual book left in existence.
		Samuel Rutherford was alarmed, or rather, I should say, he was horrified, for he neither feared the face of man or argument.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/freebook/sruther.htm (2677 words)

	Rutherford
		Samuel Rutherford was chosen, an indication of the high esteem in which he was held throughout the Scottish Churches.
		Again, Rutherford was adamantly opposed to such a perversion of the gospel and fought in the vanguard for the clear and biblically sound statements of the Confession as we have it today.
		When Rutherford was exiled to Aberdeen from his humble parish church in Anwoth, many of his people went the entire distance with him, walking on foot 230 miles, only to have to return the same dreadful distance.
	www.prca.org /books/portraits/ruther.htm (2897 words)

	Samuel Rutherford: Lex Rex (Law Is King, or The Law and the Prince), 1644 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lex Rex (Law Is King, or The Law and the Prince), 1644, by Rev. Samuel Rutherford, sometime professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews.
		Rutherford's text was written at the height of conflict, when he spoke not only against monarchy as a form of government, but also spoke against both Roman Catholicism and the Church of England, in favor of the independence of the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland.
		Rutherford himself was condemned to die, although he died of natural causes before sentence could be carried out.
	www.lawmart.com /pubs/rutherford.htm (309 words)

	This Month Long Ago - Samuel Rutherford
		Just a few short weeks before, Samuel Rutherford had occupied the Professor of Theology's Chair in the University of St. Andrews, but now he is a dying man who has been denied even the right to DIE within the walls of his old College, let alone live there.
		Samuel Rutherford lived in a day when the affairs of the Church of Christ in Scotland were irregular and uncertain.
		The charge was easily established and Samuel Rutherford was deprived of his ministerial office and sentenced to be "confined during the King's pleasure, within the town of Aberdeen".
	www.wicketgate.co.uk /e41_2.html (1029 words)

	Samuel Rutherford - Scots Worthies » Reformation Scotland
		As Samuel Rutherford was mighty in the public parts of religion, so he was a great practiser and encourager of the private duties thereof.
		Samuel Rutherford was also one of the Scots commissioners, appointed in 1643 to the Westminster Assembly, and was very much beloved there for unparalleled faithfulness and zeal in going about his Master’s business.
		Thus died the famous Samuel Rutherford, who may justly be accounted among the sufferers of that time; for surely he was a martyr, both in his own design and resolution, and by the design and determination of men.
	www.reformation-scotland.org.uk /scots_worthies/samuel_rutherford.html (2583 words)

	Overview of Samuel Rutherford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This was unacceptable to the Church authorities and Rutherford was prosecuted by Thomas Sydserf, the Bishop of Galloway (1581 - 1663) at Wigtown and again in Edinburgh, resulting in his suspension.
		Rutherford was appointed to the Chair of Divinity at St. Mary's College (St. Andrews University) in 1639 and preached alongside Robert Blair (1583 - 1666) in the town.
		Rutherford's Lex Rex or 'The Law and the Prince' of 1644 was regarded as a masterwork of political thinking which questioned the authority of the King.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst2221.html (325 words)

	Samuel Rutherford
		Here, says Samuel Rutherford, is the difference between the Reformers and the Enthusiasts: both believed that God was directing them, but the Reformers never presented their prophecies to people as something which was infallible or binding on the consciences of believers.
		Samuel Rutherford was a major influence on the Confession.
		What that means is that when Samuel Rutherford published his book—a book that teaches that God continues to speak to people after the completion of the canon of Scripture—he was not outside the mainstream of seventeenth century Reformed thinking.
	www.rbvincent.com /rutherford.htm (2252 words)

	Samuel R. Houston and Family Papers
		Samuel Rutherford Houston was a descendant of John Houston, who immigrated from Ireland, via Scotland, to Philadelphia.
		John Rutherford Houston, a native of Virginia, was a Presbyterian minister, who served as a missionary to Greece ca.
		Among the correspondence of Rutherford R. Houston to his father Samuel Rutherford Houston are letters which offer insight into his religious thought (1859-1885, n.d.).
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/findaid/h3451.html (664 words)

	The Scottish Ministers' Hall of Fame
		In addition, they appointed Rutherford a Professor of Theology of St. Andrews, although he negotiated to be allowed to preach at least once a week.
		The Westminster Assembly began their famous meetings in 1643, and Rutherford was one of the five Scottish commissioners invited to attend the proceedings.
		Rutherford is thought to have been a major influence on the Shorter Catechism.
	www.newble.co.uk /hall/Rutherford/biography.html (580 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #95: Rutherford's inspired writings and government
		Rutherford attended the University of Edinburgh, served as a professor for two years, studied theology, and was licensed as a preacher at age 27.
		Rutherford lived during a time of religious persecution in Britain, and many were leaving for the new land of hope, America.
		Rutherford had an intimate communion with the Lord which he was not afraid to talk about.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps095.shtml (1551 words)

	Letters Of Samuel Rutherford
		His opponents had meant to silence him but instead they perpetuated his ministry through the centuries for it was out or this period that most of his famous Letters came.
		It is said of Robert Murray M’Cheyne that ‘the Letters of Samuel Rutherford were often in his hand.’ Richard Baxtar’s view was that, apart from the Bible, ‘such a book as Mr.
		Rutherford’s letters the world never saw the like,’ while to C.H. Spurgeon they were ‘the nearest thing to inspiration which can be found in all the writings of mere men.’ This abridged edition contains sixty-nine of these letters.
	www.monergismbooks.com /letters1635.html (197 words)

	February 20: Rutherford exiled for religious views
		Full of encouragement and loving devotion to Christ, they showed that Rutherford had an intimate communion with the Lord and was not afraid to talk about it.
		During the 1640s, Rutherford represented the church of Scotland in the Westminster Assembly in London.
		Letters of Samuel Rutherford, with a sketch of his life and biographical notices of his correspondents, by Andrew A. Bonar.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/02/daily-02-20-2002.shtml (542 words)

	Index to Samuel Rutherford
		The Weeping Mary at the Sepulcre by Samuel Rutherford.
		Download the entire book Samuel Rutherford and some of his Correspondents as a single PDF file, 139 pages, 336K.
		Letters of Samuel Rutherford This is the Puritan Paperback edition by the Banner of Truth.
	www.puritansermons.com /ruth/ruthindx.htm (418 words)

	AllRefer.com - Samuel Rutherford (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His Exercitationes apologeticae pro divina gratia (1636), urging a Calvinist view of grace against Arminianism (see under Arminius, Jacobus), caused his suspension from his living at Anwoth on the charge of nonconformity to the Acts of Episcopacy.
		Banished to Aberdeen until the National Covenant was drawn up in 1638, he then was made professor of divinity at St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, and rector of the university in 1651.
		Rutherford's letters, first published as Joshua Redivivus (1664), edited by A. Bonar with a life (2 vol., 1863), have passed through a number of editions.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RuthrfdS.html (206 words)

	Reformation CD#9 - Samuel Rutherford: DiscountBible.com bible study software and bibles
		Sherman Isbell describes this book as follows: "Rutherford asserts that there is delineated in the NT a form of Church government by elders and Presbyteries which is of permanent obligation; more-over, that discipline and suspension from the sacraments are vested with church officers rather than with the Christian civil magistrate.
		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.
		Rutherford's Free Disputation, though scarce (with maybe only a few copies of the actual book left in existence), is still one of his most important works.
	www.discountbible.com /bible.mvc?p=S_R9 (1585 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		There is an interesting sketch of Samuel Rutherford's life with fl and white illustrations of the scenes connected with his ministry.
		Of Samuel Rutherford he wrote: "I heard a little fair man, and he showed me the loveliness of Christ." This would make a good sub-title for The Letters of Samuel Rutherford - "The Loveliness of Christ." We hope the blessing of the Lord will rest on the republication of this Christian classic.
		Here is a letter by Samuel Rutherford to the Lady Busbie [probably the mother-in-law of Rutherford's close friend, Robert Blair, the minister].
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?1088 (1555 words)

	Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)
		Rutherford, though seriously ill, could not have been more calm; he said that “he would willingly dye on the scaffold for that book with a good conscience.” Things never came to that; Rutherford's illness prevented him from appearing before parliament, and he died in March of 1661.
		For Rutherford, the natural law teaches that man is born free and, consequently, no one is born a ruler by right; “no man bringeth out of the womb with him a sceptre and a crown upon his head,” in his words.
		By saying this, however, Rutherford does not mean to say that political authority is not ordained by God; on the contrary, God does establish the legitimacy of political offices, but these offices and the powers they wield are to be differentiated from the office holders.
	www.acton.org /publicat/randl/liberal.php?id=419 (479 words)

	Samuel Rutherford - Christ called the Son of David
		Samuel Rutherford - Christ called the Son of David
		Extract from sermon vii of a series of xxvii sermons by Samuel Rutherford on the Syro-phenician woman who came to Christ for the healing of her daughter (Matthew 15, Mark 7)
		Mr Rutherford was Professor of Divinity at St Andrews
	www.covenantofgrace.com /rutherford_son_of_david.htm (451 words)

	CFP \| Samuel Rutherford \| Kingsley Rendell
		Rutherford played a major role as a reformer at the Westminster Assembly and was also a crucial figure in the establishment of Presbyterianism for Scotland in 1689.
		Rutherford's 'Lex Rex' heavily influenced John Locke and in turn, the framers of the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
		Kingsley Rendell uses Rutherford's writings and contemporary material to present a comprehensive picture of him from his student days to his death in 1661.
	christianfocus.com /item/show/729/- (358 words)

	Samuel Rutherford's Letters
		The last of Rutherford's letters to her is dated in 1661, just after the execution of her brother.
		Nor could he ignore the fact that though the young man continued to attend church at times he came late and strode out before the service was over, behaving with the utmost irreverence and as if he was deliberately trying to insult his servant.
		Her husband, to whom Rutherford expresses his obligations at the close of the letter, was Sheriff of Ayrshire and represented it in the Scottish Parliament.
	www.housechurch.org /spirituality/rutherford_letters.html (20334 words)

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