"[A]t ye entrie of ye said Maister Samuell, our soules were under that miserable extreame femine of ye word, that we had onlie ye puir help of an sermone everie second Sabboth, by reasone of ane most inconvenient unione with uther twa kirkis."
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"The elderschip and parraishinerie of the parraishin of Anweth", quoted in Thomas Murray, The Life of Samuel Rutherford (1828), p. 355
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Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford (1600?–1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and author. He was one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
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