Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

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Never before, perhaps, had country made so swift and terrible a descent into, not social anarchy, but monarchical and military despotism. Scotland up to this hour was enjoying an ample liberty -- that liberty was fenced round on all sides by legal securities: a single edict laid them all in the dust, and confiscated that whole liberty which they guarded, and the country went sheer down at a plunge into the gulf. The tyranny that wrought all this havoc in a moment, as it were, has been stigmatized as "intoxicated." History has preserved the fact that the intoxication was more than a figure. "It was a maddening time," says Burner, "when the men of affairs were perpetually drunk."[3] Middleton, who presided over this revolutionary crew, was a notorious inebriate, and came seldom sober to the House; and it is an accepted fact that the framers of the Act Recissory passed the night that preceded the proclamation of their edict in a deep debauch. 378
Footnotes: 1. Kirkton, History of Church of Scotland, p. 60. 2. Dodds, Fifty Year's Struggle, p. 95. 3. Burnet, History of his own Time, vol. 1., pp. 149-151. 379
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PROTESTANTISM IN SCOTLAND James Ait
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long established, and over its ruin
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The second step in Scotland's prepa
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necks of both, simply at the will a
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first who suffered for the Reformed
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moments.[8] The Lollards of England
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About the same time the books and t
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Resby, by Bower, the continuator or
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about to make its stand at a third
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his native land, and publish the Go
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Gospel was now brought within the h
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degree would have been summarily di
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Andrews, a young man of quick parts
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"incorruptible seed of the Word," w
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and servants, intending to enter th
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there would mingle cheering hopes i
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city of Scotland. Whatever tomorrow
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in all Scotland; few of such dimens
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"thou sayest it is all in vain to s
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The interval was passed by the mart
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Hovering near that pile, drawn thit
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stake that the first decided dawn o
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history were collected. See Laing,
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the deaths of the martyrs. The burn
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thing called heresy might be of whi
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the heroism of the martyrs which ov
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ostentatious display of the symbols
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as much to his elevation as the cir
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ecoming "suspect" of heresy, retire
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is probable, their preacher, leavin
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imparting a new life to them, broug
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to trial on the 28th of February, a
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orders, and to have been for upward
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and cast in his lot with the Reform
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Chapter 4 Knox's Call to the Minist
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upon him," and when he hesitated th
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from which he worked. The deliverer
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channels of intercourse and informa
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elevating and inspiring. Knox's vie
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This was all that the times permitt
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establishing the Gospel in Scotland
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"his voice," says Knox, "had such c
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as one man and rend from its neck t
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Chapter 5 Knox's Final Return to Sc
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obtained from "the Estates" all tha
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princes with promises further than
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Monastery of the Gray Friars when,
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would stand by it at all hazards. S
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arrival, they bent their steps to t
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irregularities and violences that m
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Chapter 6 Establishment of the Refo
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Guise. While other countries had es
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seek where I may have it."[4] The i
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put away. When he had ended, and sa
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herself in order of battle. The tum
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moment to put forth. He knew how pr
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extirpation of Protestantism. The p
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service which Knox rendered. It not
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Footnotes: 1. Laing, Knox, vol. 1.,
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Chapter 7 Constitution of the "Kirk
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developed it; but in a little city
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inspecting the conduct of ministers
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knowledge and the highest offices o
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The Reformer was yet smarting from
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the deeper in guilt; and equally un
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towards the northern land which had
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for the principle from which were t
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Chapter 8 Knox's Interview with Que
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quaintly described the change that
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Giles's. He preached on the sin of
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timidity, but of wisdom; no of bigo
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the Roman emperors, I pray you, mad
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eigned by Divine right, and that th
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pleases them." Is then Knox to conc
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himself, explains the same more cle
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their cause, and the aid of Him who
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of those concerned in it: but he fa
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A third and still more grievous dis
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St. Giles's, Knox poured out the so
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as the sermon was ended, and report
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tears, rather than hurt his conscie
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citizens resorted to it. Some zealo
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which the Reformer was now made ans
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interrupted him. "You forget yourse
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with Scotland Popish, it may be dou
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without our reading these same sent
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McCrie, Life of Knox, vol. 2., pp.
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ut over Europe; and, as a consequen
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years at Geneva, the loving flock t
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patrimony; and secondly, because it
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with marked and lasting effect on b
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sense. Darnley has disappeared, and
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eauty, all imaginations by her live
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Fotheringay Castle, it could hardly
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the evening of the 24th of November
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might endure and extend itself, he
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Chapter 11 Andrew Melville The Tulc
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complaints against them for neglect
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prosecute his studies at that ancie
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near a view, deepened the detestati
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the General Assembly of 1580 came t
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advance in the Protestant theory of
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nation's acceptance of and submissi
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Chapter 12 Battles for Presbyterian
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the broken link between Scotland an
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Guises and Rome. But there were non
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the neighboring parishes, where als
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popular feeling was in favor of the
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the Parliament (1584) overturned th
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that he was born in such a place as
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admitted into the palace. It had be
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and preservation, when these same e
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manage, although with diminished au
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must be as narrow as his heart is c
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Chapter 13 James in England The Gun
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-- prematurely, we think; but they
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the English Jesuits were left with
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whole royal family, there will stil
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commonly used as a coal-cellar, was
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elow the House of Lords, followed b
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Jesuit conspirators who made their
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should ever after be put in executi
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(Bennet, Memorial of the Reformatio
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amplest measure of political freedo
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possessed. But he prosecuted on the
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Making a virtue of necessity, the n
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4th, Private baptism; 5th, Private
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measures, had now triumphed; but th
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Gospel, nor had they become suddenl
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influence. They could not resist th
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they might buy wares of exceeding p
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formed themselves into little compa
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fiercer tempests were soon to pass
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Scotland heard was just over the Pa
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with a fearless logic. "Monarchy,"
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There was no Andrew Melville among
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through the nation, and made Charle
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e held. Tyranny loves simplicity in
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called in to sanction this civil ty
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and then said a form of prayer, 'Th
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aimed, in short, at rescuing Christ
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of Fox, instead of those of the Rom
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plays, to which the queen was said
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Footnotes: 1. The True Law of Free
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archbishop, bishops, and a competen
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it would not pass without a tempest
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saluted with cries of "A Pope -- a
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present juncture, and subscribed wi
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They stood on the steps of the Divi
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initials. The solemn enthusiasm tha
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tried by turns to break the phalanx
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Assembly, unmoved, proceeded to dep
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The Reformed Church of Scotland upr
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Chapter 17 Civil War--Solemn League
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summoned them to battle. Charles's
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England. The Church of Scotland had
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in this assembly. Wisdom, eloquence
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many writers say from two hundred t
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the passions on both sides, took ca
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practical steps which it behoved th
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shouts or their animated looks to t
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profound policy in these views in a
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Henderson, Samuel Rutherford, Rober
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Page 339 and 340: world doth know," said they, "this
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Page 365 and 366: We have seen the extravagant joy wi
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Page 381 and 382: three. But at this stage it was fou
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Page 393 and 394: temporal; another Act was passed ag
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urgomasters had eclipsed the splend
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defended: and if he could not preve
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Chapter 24 The Popish Plot, and Dea
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was thus at an end, but though no l
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merchants, as if King Charles were
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offspring of Charles II and also Ja
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deceptive; for while the duke profe
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few people doubted that a daring an
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magistrate in London, had been spec
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But the more the Jesuits strove to
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the duke and his party next tried t
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So far, and no farther, had these m
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of insulting and vilifying epithets
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the fate of Charles II. The king ha
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Around him are two kingdoms groanin
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important message by an ambassador
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7. "Here is lately discovered a str
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Chapter 25 The First Rising of the
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impossible for them to comply with
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esolving to be beforehand with Sir
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Kirkton, "this rolling snowball was
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attack was followed by the rout of
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orders in such a juncture but a pri
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Thirty-five more were sent to their
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The hearers had no difficulty in fi
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Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the N
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Chapter 26 The Field-preaching or "
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not shaved since Charles I was behe
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forgotten that he had once been a P
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acknowledge the bishop, they were n
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method could not long endure; the P
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mountain; nor had their psalm been
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There is still a third line of watc
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away of winter of the Old Economy,
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ody of communicants had partaken th
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his holy place... Many great days o
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Chapter 27 Drumclog--Bothwell Bridg
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deepened by the machine which was s
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any to attend a field-preaching in
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of the western Lowlands. This Highl
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heath that make up the bosom of the
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these fatal conditions that, a few
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had obtained on the fatal field of
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hunted on the mountains and tracked
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which they arrived they announced i
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and so seal as it were the testimon
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crushed, and as a Church it seemed
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6. We have quoted a few only of the
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were execute at Edinburgh, about an
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Chapter 28 Projects to Restore Pope
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The nation persuaded itself that it
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French king. Louis XIV began to dou
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lastly, he ventured upon the bold s
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were inadequately supported. Argyle
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judge, and not the guilt of the pri
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himself, says Jeffreys to him, 'Ric
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commissions in the army. These laws
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to Parliament. This compromise was
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dependence on him, and therefore th
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8. Bowyer, History James II, p. 48.
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given to Papists. The army was remo
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profligate men in the profession we
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change was effected by the threats
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which he vaunted so much; it seemed
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carnage of 1641 would have been re-
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prerogative. This destruction of al
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the sphere of the Romish Church, wa
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instantly crushed. Hardly a week pa
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Romanism in the spirit. This was in
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afterwards. It was while the king w
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Having set up the dispensing power,
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kingdom. Several of the bishops and
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with a Prince of Wales. It was now
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evidently discomposed. There was ca
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Lloyd of St. Asaph, Turner of Ely,
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liberated and regenerated. The firs
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some on pretext of visiting friends
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epresenting to them the danger of F
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German candidate who was eventually
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Orange, found himself on the blink
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transports and embarking his troops
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assemblage, representative of sever
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which they regarded as a compensati
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With this "Protestant wind," as the
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considerable hazard, for it was unc
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they were met by this storm. They w
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followers most heartily welcome to
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Christendom. It was the resurrectio
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14. Bowyer, History William III, vo
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