The church history of Scotland, from the commencement of the Christian era to the present century

Front matter

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UNIVERSITY

Chapter I

King James appoints a Conference of English Divines at Hampton Court, 1 . The King prorogues the Assembly indicted to meet at Aberdeen in July 1604, 4. He dissolves the Assembly indicted to meet at Aberdeen in July 1605 ; but some of the Ministers constitute the Meeting, fix upon a day for a future Assembly, and then adjourn, 5. They are called before the Council, and having declined its jurisdiction, are tried for treason, and found guilty, 7. The Parliament meets and restores the Episcopal Estate, 9. The King invites some of the Scotch Bishops and Presbyterian Ministers to Court, 10. He puts them through a course of Episcopal Divinity, 11. Andrew Melville writes an Epigram on the Anglican Worship, 13, He is tried by the English Council, found guilty, and sent to the Tower, 14. Future Career and Character of the two MelviUes, 15. Assembly held at Linlithgow, 16. Popular Dissatisfaction with its Measures, 17. Assembly of 1608, 18. Two Courts of High Commission erected, 20. Act of Parliament authorizing the King to prescribe Churchmen's Apparel, 21. Assembly of 1610, and its Acts setting up Episcopacy, 22. Scotch Bishops proceed to London to receive Consecration, 25. The Parliament ratifies the Acts of the Assembly of 1610, 26. Vestiges of Popery, 27. Martyrdom of Ogilvy, a, Jesuit, 28. Assembly of 1616, 29. James revisits Scotland, 30. The Parliament meets, 31. The Protest of the Presbyterian Ministers, 82. The Publication of the " Book of Sports," 83. Assembly of 1617, 85. Assembly at Perth in August 1618, 35. The Five Articles of Perth, 38. Nonconformists, 40. The Synod of Dort, 42. Mrs Welsh and the King, 43. Death and Character of James VI., 44.

Chapter II

Accession of Charles I., 45. The beginning of his English Troubles, 46. Charles visits Scotland and is Crowned, 47. Introduction of the Anglican Ritual, 48. Meeting of the Estates, 49. Opposition to some Acts, 50. Lord Balmerino condemned, 51. Digression in regard to Teinds and Stipends, 52.

IV CONTENTS.

Digression in regard to Parish Schools, 58. Spottiswood made Lord ChanceUoT, 64. Charles resolves to introduce a New Liturgy, 65. Notices of the Old Liturgy, 65. The Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical, 66. Laud's Liturgy, 68. Tumult in the Church of St Gile, 70. The Prosecution of Alexander Henderson, 73. The King rehukes the Council for suspending the use of the Liturgy, 73. Riots in Edinburgh, 75. Constitution of the Tables, 77. The King publishes a Proclamation, 78. The Presbyterians resolve to bind themselves together in a Religious Covenant, 81. Subscription of the Covenant at the Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh, 82. Different Opinions about the Covenant, 84.

Chapter III

Meeting of the Privy Council, 86. The King resolves to send the Marquis of Hamilton to Scotland as his Commissioner, 87. His Instructions, 88. The Tables forbid the Covenanters to attend him in his Progress, 89. The King prepares for extremities, 90. The Commissioner comes to Holyrood, 91. His Conference with the Covenanters, 91. He returns to London for new instructions, 92. Agrees to summon an Assembly on certain conditions, 93. The Commissioner again goes to England for fresh instructions, 94. The King's Concessions, 94. The Competing Covenants, 95. Preparations for the Meeting of the Assembly, 96. The Tables issue Instructions to Presbyteries, 97. Complaint against the Bishops, 98. The Assembly meets, 99. The Commissioner dissolves it, but it continues its sittings, 102. The Commissioner advises the King to prepare for Hostilities, 107. The Covenanters engage the services of General Leslie, 110. The Covenanters encamp at Dunse Law, 111. Treaty of Peace, 113. The Assembly meets, 114. The Large Declaration is condemned, 116. Death of Archbishop Spottiswood, 118. The Covenanting Army enters England, 121. Terms of Peace, 122. Charles I. visits Scotland, 125. He makes great Concessions, 127. The Outbreak of the Civil War in England, 128. Desire to extend Presbytery to England, 129. Sympathy with the Puritans, 131. Meeting of Assembly, and Arrival of an English Deputation, 134. The Solemn League and Covenant, 135. The Covenanting Army marches into England, 136.