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Rev Samuel Rutherford (or Samuell Rutherfoord ( – 29 March 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly. ==Life== Samuel Rutherford, a little, fair haired man 〔''M'Cvies Sketches'' - History of the Reformation in Scotland , 1829〕 was born in the village of Nisbet, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Rutherford was educated at Jedburgh Grammar School and Edinburgh University, where he became Regent of Humanity (Professor of Latin) in 1623. In 1627 he was settled as minister of Anwoth in Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway, where it was said of him 'he was always praying, always preaching, always visiting the sick, always catechising, always writing and studying',〔Bonar,Andrew, ''Letters of Samuel Rutherford'' , Religious Tract Society, London 1891〕 and from where he was banished to Aberdeen for nonconformity, 'being very powerful on the side of the Reformed faith and of God living',〔Bonar,Andrew, ''Letters of Samuel Rutherford'' , Religious Tract Society, London 1891〕 there in Aberdeen, 'his writing desk', was said to be, 'perhaps the most effective and widely resounding pulpit then in Christendom'.〔Thomson, Andrew ''Samuel Rutherford'', Hodder & Stoughton, London 1884〕 His patron in Galloway was John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure. On the re-establishment of Presbyterianism in 1638 he was made Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews. Rutherford was chosen as one of the four main Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly of Divines in London taking part in formulating the Westminster Confession of Faith completed in 1647,〔Cook, Faith (ed), ''Grace in Winter'': ''Rutherford in Verse'', (1996), ISBN 0-85151-555-X〕 and after his return to Scotland he became Rector of St. Mary's College at St. Andrews in 1651. Rutherford was a staunch Protester during the controversy in the Scottish Presbyterian church between the Resolutioners and Protesters in the 1650s, and at the Restoration of Charles II his Lex Rex was burnt by the hand of the common hangman, and the "Drunken Parliament" deprived him of all his offices and voted that he not be permitted to die in the college. He is buried in the churchyard of St Andrews Cathedral just west of the bell tower. The stone is remarkable well preserved. The epitaph on his tombstone includes 'Acquainted with Emmanuel's Love'.〔Bonar,Andrew ''Sketch of Samuel Rutherford'' in Letters of Samuel Rutherford , Religious Tract Society, London 1891〕 There is also a monument to Rutherford, on the hilltop overlooking his former parish at Anwoth, in the village of Gatehouse of Fleet, southwest Scotland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Rutherford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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