"If Cant was the apostle of the Covenant, and Warriston its pen, and Peden its prophet, Rutherford was something more than its bard, a sensitive reed shaken with the wind of a stormful age, and giving out soft music that touched the soul to tears.

He was the strong brain, the dura medulla, the intellectual fibre of the Covenant... He was an out and out Covenanter, a protester of Protesters (sometimes called Cameronians or Steelites today -RB), ready by pen or tongue to defend the blue banner even unto death" (Blair as cited in Johnston, Treasury of the Scottish Covenant, p. 304).

A topic of great interest, by one of the greats of Church history -- and a classic defender of close communion.

18 pages.