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Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife of Past and Present Times RUT FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. too often assumed. He was one of the sion of a copy. Rutherford was at th« Commissioners from the General Assembly same time dejirived of his situation, hi" of the Church of Scotland to the West stipend conBscated, and himself cited to minster Assembly, where bis services were appear before the ensuing High Court of aeknowletlged by all parties to have been of ParUament to answer to a charge of liigh great importance. The other Commis- treason. Before the meeting of Parliament, sioners from the Scottish Church were per- however, he was called to appear at a mitted to visit their native country by higher bar. He had long been in bad turns, and to report the progress which was health, and seeing, as he thought, injury made from time to time in the work ; but coming u|>nn tliecOjurch, it broke his spirit, Rutherford never quitted his post till his and Ik- uuvur lailir.l. Of his last moments mission was accomplished. Mr Rutherford we c:in allonl spate only for a very brief e.Kerted himself to promote the cause he account. He seiuied to enjoy singular espoused, not only in the Assembly but elevation of spirit in the near praspect of also by means of the press in a variety of death. "I shall shine," he said, "I shall publications. All his productions are see Him as He is. Mine eyes shall see my highly honourable to the talents of their Redeemer." " I disclaim,'' he remarked at author, and place his industiy and fertUity the same time, " all that ever God made me of mind in a singularly favourable point of will or do, and I look upon it as defiled or view. Rutherford, in returning to St imperfect as coming from me, but Christ is Andrews, the former scene of his profes- my wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, sional and pastoral hibours, must have felt and redemption." To his surviving agreeably reUeved from the business and daughter he said—" I leave you upon the the bustle of a popular assembly, and hoped, Lord ; it may be you will tell this to probably, that now he might rest in his lot. others, that the lines are fallen to me in Far otherwiije, however, was the case. He pleasant places. I have got a goodly w:is in January 1C49, at the recommendation heritage." His last words were—"Glory, of the Commission of the General Assembly, glory dwelleth in Immanuel's land ;" and aiipointed Principal of St Mary's College, he expired on the morning of the 20th of which he was already Professor of March 16C1 in the sixty-first year of Ids Divinity ; and not long after he was elevated age. Mr Rutherford was unquestionably to the Rectorship of the University. An one of the most learned, able, and consistent attempt had also been made in the General Presbyterians of his age. In his " FamUiar A.ssembly of 1049 to have him removed to Letters,"published imsthumiiusly, he evinces the University of Edinburgh, which BaiUie a fervour of feeling and fancy that, in other " Siiys Was thought to be absurd, and so curcumstances and otherwise exerted, would was laid aside." He had an invitation at have ranked him among the most successful the same time to the Chair of Divinity and cultivators of literature. Wudrow has Hebrew in the University of Hardewyrk in observed that those who knew liim best Holland, which he declined ; and on the were at a loss which to admire. Ids subUme 20th of May 1651 he was electetl to fiU the genius in the school, or his famUiar conde- Divinity Chair in the University of Utrecht. scensions in the puljiit, where he was one of Rutherford seems now to have been in some the most moving and affectionate preachers degree of hesitation, and requested sLx of his time, or perhaps iu any age of the months to advise upon the subject. At the Church. end of this period he wrote to the patrons of the College thanking them for the high honour they had done him, but informing them that he could not think of abandoning the Church of Scotland in the perilous circum- SAGE, The Right Reverend John, was in stances which she then stood. The whole bom in 1052 in the parish of Creich, in the of the subsequent life of Samuel Rutherford north-east of Fife, where his ancestors had was one continued struggle. After King lived with much respect, but Uttle property, Charles' Restoration, when, though infirm for seven generations ; his father was a in_ body, Mr Rutherford's spirit was stUl Captain in Lord Dufius' regiment, which alive to the cause of Presbytery, he recom- was engaged in the defence of Dundee when mended that some of his own party (the it was stormed and taken by the Parhamen- Protestors) should be sent to the king to tary General, Monk, on the 30th August give a representation of the state of matters 1G51. Captain Sage's property was in the church, and when the Protestors di min ished in proportion to his loyalty, and applied to the other party (the Resolu- all the fortune he had to bestow on his son tionists) who preferred a moderate Episco- was a Uberal education and his own principles pacy to join them, they refused to have of loyalty and virtue. Young Sage received- anything to do with them, and the Com- the rudiments of his education at the school mittee of Estates, met at Edinburgh, of his native parish, and at a proper age was dispersed the Protestors, and threatened removed to the University of St Andrews, them with imprisonment. The next act of where he remained during the usual course, the Committee was an order to burn Ruther- performing the exercises required by the ford's " Le.x Rex," and for lumishing all statutes of the Scottish Universities, and who should afterwards be found in j osses- here he took the degree of Master of Arts in ; FIFESHIKE BIOGRAPHY. SAG the year 1672. He made letters his pro- of these assemblies. The Bishop delivered fession ; but, hia meaus being narrow, he also a charge to the presbyters at the open- was compelled to accept the office of paro- ing of these meetings, which, with the act chial school-master of Ballingry, in Fife, of the synodal or presbyterial meetings, was from which parish he was soon afterwards registered by the clerk, who was always one removed to the same office in Tippermuir, of the most eminent of the diocesan clergy. near Perth, In these humble stations he In all this period there were neither liturgy, often wanted many of the necessaries and nor forms, nor ceremonies, nor surphces, all the comforts of life ; yet, he prosecuted nor black gowns, nor any mark whatever his studies with such unwearied diligence, by which a stranger, on entering a parish that he imbibed the seeds of several diseases, church, could discover that any difference in which afflicted him through the whole of worship or external appearance existed be- his life, and, notwithstanding the native tween the Established Episcopal Church vigour of his constitution, tended ultimately and the tolerated Presbyterian Chapel ; and to shorten his days. To the cultivated mind we believe it is an estabUshed fact, that so of such a man as Sage, the drudgery of a much were the minds of the moderate Pres- parish school must have been an almost in- byterians reconciled to Episcopacy, that tolerable slavery ; he therefore readily almost all the indulged ministers, with their accepted the offer, from Mr Drummond of congregations, took the communion at the Cultmalundie, of a situation in his family parish churches with the Episcopal clergy to superintend the education of his sons. towards the latter end of the reign of Charles He accompanied these young persons to I [. Mr Sage continued to officiate as Clerk the Grammar School of Perth, and after- of the Diocese, and as a parish minister in wards attended them in the same capacity Glasgow, till the Revolution in 1688. In of tutor to the University of St Andrews. execution of the duties of his pastoral office, At Perth he acquired the esteem of Dr he gained the esteem and affection not only of Eose, who was afterwards Bishop of Edin- his own p.arishioners but even of the Presby- burgh, and one of the most distinguished terians ; so much so, that when the common men of his age ; and at St Andrews he ob- people took the Reformation of the Church tained the friendship and countenance of all into their own hands, and with no gentle the great Uterary characters of the period. means turned the Episcopal clergy of the In 1684 the education of his pupils was western shires out of their churches and completed, and he was again thrown on the Uvings, he was treated in a manner which world without employment, without pro- was considered as comparatively lenient spects, and without any means of subsistence. and humane, being warned privately " to His friend, Dr Rose, however, having been shake off the dust from his feet, and with- promoted from the station of Parish Minis- draw from Glasgow, and never venture to ter at Perth to the Chair of Divinity at St appear there again." Many of his brethren Andrews, did not forget young Sage at were trimmers both in ecclesiastical as well this moment of indecision and helplessness. as political affairs ; they had been Presby- He recommended him so effectually to his terians and Republicans in the days of the uncle, Dr Rose, then Archbishop of Glas- Covenant, and when, from the sign of the gow, that he was by that prelate admitted times in the short reign of the infatuated into priest's orders, and presented to one of and ill-advised James, a change in the Es- the city churches.
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