The Scottish Reformation. Alexander F. Mitchell
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Alexander F. Mitchell
The Scottish Reformation
Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664567857
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE NATURE AND NEED OF THE REFORMATION.
CHAPTER III. THE OPPRESSED AND THE OPPRESSORS.
CHAPTER V. KNOX AS LEADER OF OUR REFORMATION.
CHAPTER VI. THE OLD SCOTTISH CONFESSION OF 1560.
CHAPTER VII. THE BOOK OF COMMON ORDER.
CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE; OR, THE BOOKE OF THE POLICIE OF THE CHURCH.
I. The Government of the Church.
II. The Discipline of the Church.
III. The Prerogatives and Duties of Church Members.
IV. Education of the Young and University Reform.
CHAPTER IX. THE LAST DAYS OF JOHN KNOX.
CHAPTER X. THE SECOND BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.
APPENDIX A (p. 19) . THE PÆDAGOGIUM, OR ST MARY'S COLLEGE, ST ANDREWS. [321]
APPENDIX B (p. 30) . CITATIO PATRICII HAMILTON e Formulari Vetere Andreano.
APPENDIX C (p. 46) . CARDINAL BETOUN'S INCONTINENCE.
APPENDIX E (p. 260) . THE THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL OPINIONS OF ALESIUS.
[APPENDIX F (p. 267) . THE DREAM OR VISION OF ALESIUS CONCERNING THE DECAPITATION OF ANNE BOLEYN.
[APPENDIX G (p. 269) . THE DEPARTURE OF ALESIUS FROM ENGLAND.
APPENDIX H (p. 281) . ALESIUS' INVITATION OF MELANCHTHON TO HIS DAUGHTER'S WEDDING.
APPENDIX I (p. 283) . THE WORKS OF ALESIUS.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
OF
THE VERY REV. ALEXANDER FERRIER MITCHELL, D.D., LL.D.,
Professor of Ecclesiastical History in St. Mary's College, St. Andrews.
A 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 the malady to which he succumbed when they were read for him in Blythswood Parish Church, Glasgow, by his friend and former student, Professor Robertson, the closing one, indeed, having been delivered but a few days before his death. In proof of the deep interest which he took in the subject of these Lectures, and of his desire to present them in as perfect a form as possible, it may also be mentioned that he employed his time in revising them while confined to bed during the protracted and painful illness through which he passed. The editing of them he intrusted to another friend, Dr. Hay Fleming of St. Andrews, with whom he had much in common—similarity of tastes and interest in the same literary pursuits having led to an intercourse between them which ripened into mutual confidence and esteem. Had Professor Mitchell lived to see the work through the press himself, there is hardly room to doubt that, as in the case of most of his other publications, additional explanatory and supplementary notes on obscure points would have been appended by him. As it is, the editor in executing his task has done what he could in this respect.
When the decease of the venerable Professor took place at St. Andrews towards the end of March of this year, it was felt that the Church of Scotland had been bereft not only of one of her ablest and most trusted leaders, but of one of the wisest and warmest friends of her missions; and the many tributes paid to his memory, both from the pulpit and in the press, were all expressive of the high regard in which he was held, and of the sense of public loss caused by his removal. But the loss was not that of his own Church alone, nor of the University with which his name had been so long and so honourably associated. There are those in other communions who had learned to look upon him as "a master of Israel," and in all Presbyterian Churches especially he was recognised as one of the ablest and most learned exponents of the principles which they hold in common, and as one of the most earnest defenders of "the faith once delivered to the saints."
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