172 -- LAST WORDS OF SAMUEL RUTHERFORD -- "I SHALL SOON BE WHERE FEW OF YOU SHALL ENTER."
This eminent Scotch Presbyterian divine was born in 1600, and died in 1661. He was
commissioner to the Westminster General Assembly in 1643, and was for some time principal of
St. Andrews College. When on his death-bed he was summoned to appear before Parliament for
trial, for having preached Liberty arid Religion. He sent word with the messenger to tell
Parliament "That I have received a summons to a higher bar -- I must needs answer that first; and
when the day you name shall come, I shall be where few of you shall eater."
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