This is my note from the list I purchased M from back in the dark ages.

Purchased from "A List of Theological Books for Sale" David C. Lachman, Winter 1986.
Description:
"130. Macpherson, John. The Doctrine of the Church in Scottish Theology. Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, 1903. ix, 227pp. A first-rate introduction, dealing with Samuel Rutherford, George Gillespie, etc. $25.00"

He "has problems" as noted.

In his Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication, Rutherfurd lays down the position that “there is nothing so small in either Doctrinals or Polocie, so as men may alter, omit, and leave off these smallest Positive things that God hath commanded.” 3 But surely he commits himself to a quite needlessly extreme position when he says “I am obliged to
receive this as Scripture, that Paul left his cloak at Troas; no
lesse than this, Christ came into the world to save sinners, in
regard of Canonicall authority stamped upon both.”4
But supposing it were discovered that Paul had made
some mistake about the fortunes of that cloak.5
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4. Ibid, Sect iv. p. 64.
5. Editor: Macpherson in critizing Rutherfurd on this point has departed from the historic orthodox understanding of verbal plenary inspiration.

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