When Samuel Rutherford picked up is pen he changed lives, mybe even continents. What he wrote influenced the American constitution but his real power was felt in the letters that his warm pastor's heart wrote to the people of his parish.
His book Lex Rex was burned on a pyre but his notes of comfort and wisdom were cherished by those he cared to guide and counsel.
Accused of treason he died of illness before there was time to make him a martyr.
