Samuel Rutherford by Robert Gilmour is a biographical and historical study in the history of the Scottish Covenant.

In Critical Reviews Relating Chiefly to Scotland, compiled by David Hay Fleming, we read, "Mr. Gilmour has produced an excellent volume, which is worthy of being placed alongside any of its predecessors... Scattered throughout its pages there are numerous quotations from Rutherford's own works... Rutherford's admirers will relish it, because of its keen sympathy with and high appreciation of him."

Samuel Rutheford was a master scholar of Scripture, a great devotional writer (see Rutherford's Letters), a devoted and covenanted minister of Christ, one of the Scotch commissioners to the famous Westminster Assembly, and a world class political philosopher (whose Lex Rex forever changed the face of political thought).

Gilmour writes, "that, as regards religious fervour, scholastic subtlety of intellect, and intensity of ecclesiastical conviction, Samuel Rutherford is the most distinctively representative Scotsman in the first half of the seventeenth century."

Few saints in history were given the gifts Samuel Rutherford possessed and much is to be learned from this faithful Protestor and Covenanter.