Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford was born about 1600 in the parish of Nisbet, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. He studied at Jedburgh Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh, where he became a teacher of Latin in 1623. In 1627 he became minister of Anwoth in Galloway, known for his tireless preaching and visiting of the sick. In 1636, mainly because of a book he wrote against Arminianism, he was barred from his ministry and ordered to live in Aberdeen. There he wrote most of his Letters, which have been reprinted in some forty editions. In 1639 he became Professor of Divinity at St Andrews, and later principal of St Mary's College there. From 1643 he spent four years in London as one of Scotland's commissioners to the Westminster Assembly. He supported the Covenanters. After the Restoration of Charles II, his political book Lex, Rex was ordered to be burned, he lost all his offices and he was summoned on a charge of treason, but he died at St Andrews in 1661 before he could be tried.

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Faith: Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian, pastor of Anwoth from 1627. Source: Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900) (via Wikisource)