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THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE 144 SECT. I. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH 145 II. THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH 162 III. THE PREROGATIVES AND DUTIES OF CHURCH MEMBERS 169 IV. EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG AND UNIVERSITY REFORM 174 V. CARE OF THE POOR 179
We owe it to the Rev. Christopher Anderson, the author of the 'Annals of the English Bible,' that attention has been once more turned to the deeply interesting story of Alexande...
11. Chapter 11I regard the First Book of Discipline as, in several respects, the most thoughtful, judicious, practical, and comprehensive of the documents connected with the organisation of t...
2. Chapter 2A pathetic and almost melancholy interest attaches to this volume of the Baird Lectures. Their scholarly and accomplished author may be said to have entered on the last stage of...
12. Chapter 12The eighth decade of the sixteenth century was memorable in the history of Protestantism in its Presbyterian or Calvinistic form, and the year 1572 has been termed its _annus mi...
16. Chapter 16[323] [Alesius arrived at Wittenberg on the 9th of July 1539, and from thence informed Crumwell that he was encouraged to hope that he would receive a post in the University the...
5. Chapter 5Archbishop Betoun thought that by Patrick Hamilton's death he had extinguished Lutheranism in Scotland. The University of Louvain applauded his deed; and so also, I regret to sa...
6. Chapter 6It was about this time that a new evangelist arrived in the country, singularly fitted to impress on the hearts of men the lessons of the Holy Book to which they had now access...
10. Chapter 10This, though in point of time the first composed of the symbolical books of the Scottish Reformation, was the last to be formally assigned its honoured place. The title it commo...
14. Chapter 14their awin authority whan the kirk is corruptit and all things out of ordor, place ministers and restore the trew service of the Lord efter the examples of sum godly kings of Ju...
7. Chapter 7As stated towards the close of my last lecture, the sword-bearer of Wishart stood forth at once "to wield the spiritual sword which had fallen from the master's grasp, and to wi...
3. Chapter 3With the single exception of the period which covers the introduction and first marvellous triumphs of Christianity, the Reformation of the sixteenth century must be owned as pe...
8. Chapter 8Knox, in his 'History of the Reformation,' has stated that the preparation of this Confession was entrusted to the same six ministers who were commissioned to draw up the Book o...
4. Chapter 4It has not been very clearly ascertained how or when the opinions and writings of Luther were first introduced into Scotland. M. de la Tour, who in 1527 suffered in Paris for he...
9. Chapter 9with having "perniciouslie taucht and damnablie beleeved" the transubstantiation of the bread into Christ's natural body and of wine into his natural blood,[144] and that in the...
13. Chapter 13In a previous lecture I have endeavoured to give a pretty full account of the First Book of Discipline. It remains yet to say a few words about the Second Book of Discipline.
1. Chapter 1THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE 144 SECT. I. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH 145 II. THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH 162 III. THE PREROGATIVES AND DUTIES OF CHURCH MEMBERS 169 IV. EDUCAT...