1687-Alexander Shields.-This covers the earliest period of Scottish history including its first encounters with the Christian religion and its special place in the history of the Gentile churches.
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1687-Alexander Shields.-A survey of earlier Scottish history showing that the Scots have always been disposed to religious and civil liberty in contrast to Romanism.
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1687-Alexander Shields.-This portion contains the contendings of the church against popery and in favor of true religion and liberty.
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1687-Alexander Shields.-An historical survey showing the struggle of the Church of Scotland on behalf of the kingly prerogatives of Christ prior to the second reformation (1570-1638).
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1687-Alexander Shields.-In this section, Shields surveys the period of the second reformation and its various attainments demonstrating the purity and fidelity of this period (1638-1660).
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1687-Alexander Shields.-A history of the testimony bearing of the Covenanters during the period of the Restoration (1660-1687), including the "Killing Times."
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1687-Alexander Shields.-An overview of the causes of the sufferings of the Covenanters during the period after the restoration, commonly called the "Killing Times."
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1687-Alexander Shields.-An introduction to the several chapters defending the points of the present testimony maintained by the Covenanters during the killing times.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An excellent presentation of the need for using good and necessary consequences for both doctrinal and praictcal matters.
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1649-George Gillespie.-This essay demonstrates that there was a distinction between civil and ecclesiastical government amongst the Jews.
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1649-George Gillespie.-In this essay, Gillespie explains and defends the use of a table in the celebration of the Lord's supper. This is an authoritative exposition of this subject.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An essay defending the practice of Presbyterians ordaining through the laying on of the hands of multiple presbyters.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An essay explaining what constitutes heresy and why heresies are useful to the church together with why they should be resisted by the orthodox.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An essay warning men to keep to a confessional moderation and avoid claims to "new light" which often breed errors and heresies. This is a welcome antidote to those who claim that every change represents the church reforming.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An essay arguing for the desirability of achieving both a certain and stable grasp of the true religion.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An essay which examines the claims that it is possible to be godly without being orthodox.
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1649-George Gillespie.-An essay which condemns the claims of the sectarians to a greater piety than the orthodox.
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1578-The National Church of Scotland.-In this Second Book of Policy, the government of the church is a settled state is set forth with its duties and obligations as a national establishment of religion.
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1645-Edmund Calamy (1600-1666).-Westminster divine Edmund Calamy's sermon on the ordinance of covenanting wherein he describes the use of covenanting together with warnings against refusing to covenant or, what it worse, to break covenant.
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1843-Robert Lusk.-In this extended essay, Lusk recounts the history of the witnessing church together with an account of its declining in numerous ways which made it necessary for the erection of a new presbytery concerned with keeping the principles of Covenanters alive.
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