The Life of Andrew Melville: Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland, During the Latter Part of the Sixteenth and Beginning of the Seventeenth Century. With an Appendix, Consisting of Original Papers, Volume 2 |
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... Writings ... 277 CHAPTER XI . 1 STATE OF LITERATURE IN SCOTLAND WHEN MELVILLE WAS SETTLED AT ST . ANDREWS , ANNO 1580 . Erection of University of St. Andrews - Its Constitution - Col- leges founded in it - State of the University at the ...
... Writings ... 277 CHAPTER XI . 1 STATE OF LITERATURE IN SCOTLAND WHEN MELVILLE WAS SETTLED AT ST . ANDREWS , ANNO 1580 . Erection of University of St. Andrews - Its Constitution - Col- leges founded in it - State of the University at the ...
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... writing of the archbishop's death , he says : " I have pitie on his wyfe and children , if it were but for good Johnne Duries memory , whose simplicity and sincerity in his lyfe tyme condemned the worldly wisdom in all without exception ...
... writing of the archbishop's death , he says : " I have pitie on his wyfe and children , if it were but for good Johnne Duries memory , whose simplicity and sincerity in his lyfe tyme condemned the worldly wisdom in all without exception ...
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... writings both in prose and verse , admonitions were given to the ministers to beware that the changeable glister- ing shew of the world should not get in betwixt them and Christ * . " History of the Declining Age of the Church , p . 8 ...
... writings both in prose and verse , admonitions were given to the ministers to beware that the changeable glister- ing shew of the world should not get in betwixt them and Christ * . " History of the Declining Age of the Church , p . 8 ...
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... writing while his recollection of them was fresh . The whole of his account is copied into Calderwood's MS . and large extracts from it may be seen in Printed Calderwood , pp . 428-434 . The General Assembly which met at Montrose on the ...
... writing while his recollection of them was fresh . The whole of his account is copied into Calderwood's MS . and large extracts from it may be seen in Printed Calderwood , pp . 428-434 . The General Assembly which met at Montrose on the ...
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... writings of reformed divines and of the fathers , with the decisions of the most ancient and renown- ed General Councils . Unable to reply to these ar- guments and authorities , the advocates of the mea- sure were forced to abandon the ...
... writings of reformed divines and of the fathers , with the decisions of the most ancient and renown- ed General Councils . Unable to reply to these ar- guments and authorities , the advocates of the mea- sure were forced to abandon the ...
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Page 256 - These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 248 - Christ our head : promising and swearing, by the great name of the LORD our GOD, that we shall continue in the obedience of the doctrine and discipline of this kirk,* and...
Page 305 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Page 466 - Lord bishop ; my Lord's bishop ; and the Lord's bishop. My Lord bishop was in the papistrie. My Lord's bishop is now when my Lord gets the benefice, and the bishop serves for nothing but to make his title sure ; and the Lord's bishop...
Page 113 - He wishes that he might be a means of uniting the two religions, for if they would but abandon their late corruptions, he would meet them in the midway, as having a great veneration for antiquity in the points of ecclesiastical policy. Bnt then as to the Puritans or Novelists, who do not differ from us so much in points of religion, as in their confused form of policy and purity ; those...
Page 263 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest,
Page 142 - all excuses set aside," to repair to London before the 15th of September next, that his majesty might treat with him and others, his brethren, of good learning, judgment, and experience, concerning such things as would tend to settle the peace of the church, and to justify to the world the measures which his majesty, after such extraordinary condescension, might find it necessary to adopt for repressing the obstinate and turbulent.
Page 166 - Discipline,' then I regard you as the capital enemy of all the Reformed Churches in Europe, and as such I will profess myself an enemy to you and to your proceedings, to the effusion of the last drop of my blood : and it grieves me that such a man should have his majesty's ear, and sit so high in this honourable council.
Page 331 - The lectures were chiefly delivered by those who were proceeding in their theological degrees. Before entering on this duty, it behooved them to have been students of divinity for three years, to have sustained the part of a respondent twice in the public disputes during the vacancies, to have given proof of their talents twice in the weekly exercise, and to have preached once in the vulgar language before the people, and in...
Page 234 - Perth, and a favourite, could not be persuaded that her minister had deserted the Presbyterian cause. Resolved to satisfy herself, she paid him a visit in the Canongate, where he had his residence as Dean of the Chapel Royal.