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12 young) he was made profeor of philoophy in that univerity.

Some time after this he was called to be miniter at Anwoth, in the hire of Galloway, unto which charge he entered by means of the then vicount of Kenmuir, without any acknowledgement or engagement to the bihops. There he laboured with great diligence and ucces, both night and day, riing uually by three o'clock in the morning, pending the whole time in reading, praying, writing, catechiing, viiting and other duties belonging to the miniterial profeion and employment.

Here he wrote his Exercitationes de gratia, &c. for which he was ummoned (as early as June 1630) before the high commiion-court, but the weather was o tempetuous as to obtruct the paage of the archbihop of St. Andrews hither, and Mr. Colvil, cne of the judges, having befriended him, the diet was defected. About the ame time, his firt wife died after a ore icknes of thirteen months, and he hinelf was o ill of a tertian fever for thirteen weeks, that then he could not preach on the Sabbath day, without great difficulty.

Again in April 1634, he was threatened with another proecution at the intance of the bihop of Galloway before the high commiion-court; and neither were thee threatenings all the reaons Mr. Rutherfoord had to lay his account with uffering, and as the Lord would not hide from his faithful ervant Abraham the thing he was about to do, neither would be conceal from this on of Abraham what his purpoes were concerning him; for in a letter to the provot's wife of Kirkudbright, dated April 20, 1633, he ays, 'That upon the 17th and 18th of Augut, he got a full anwer of his Lord to be a graced miniter, and a choen arrow hid in his quiver.' Accordingly the thing he looked for came upon him, for he was again summoned before the