Excerpt from Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford, Principal and Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews, 1639 1661: Carefully Revised and Edited by the Rev. Thomas Smith, D. D The story of the life Of Samuel Rutherford is so generally known, that, in a mere Preface like the present, the briefest reference to its leading facts must suffice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.