THE

CHURCH HISTORY

OF

SCOTLAND

FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN
ERA TO THE PRESENT TIME

BY

JOHN CUNNINGHAM, D.D.

AUTHOR OF "THE QUAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY," "A NEW THEORY
OF KNOWING AND KNOWN," ETC., ETC.

8-46047

BR782

C8

1882

v, 2

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER XVII.

Meeting of the Privy Council, 1. The King resolves to send the

Marquis of Hamilton to Scotland as his Commissioner, 2. His instruc-

tions, 3. The Tables forbid the Covenanters to attend him in his Pro-

gress, 3. The King prepares for extremities, 4. The Commissioner

comes to Holyrood, 5. He asks the Covenanters to renounce the

Covenant, 5. He returns to London for new instructions, 6. The Kings

Concessions, 8. The Competing Covenants, 9. Preparations for the

Meeting of the Assembly, 10. The Tables issue instructions to Presby-

teries, 10. Complaint against the Bishops, II. The Assembly meets, 12.

The Commissioner dissolves it, but it continues its sittings, 15. Deposi-

tion of Bishops and other Acts of the Assembly, 16-18. The Commis-

sioner advises the King to prepare for Hostilities, 20. The Covenanters

engage the services of General Leslie, 22. The Covenanters encamp at

Dunse Law, 23. Treaty of Peace, 25. The Assembly meets, 26. The

Large Declaration is condemned, 27. Death of Archbishop Spottiswood,

29. The Covenanting Army enters England, 32. Terms of Peace, 33.

Charles I. visits Scotland, 36. He makes great Concessions, 37. The

Outbreak of the Civil War in England, 38. Desire to extend Presbytery

to England, 38. Sympathy with the Puritans, 40. Meeting of Assembly,

and Arrival of an English Deputation, 43. The Solemn League and

Covenant, 44. The Covenanting Army marches into England, 45.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Narrow Notions of the Covenanting Period, 45. Dr John Forbes, 47.

Calvinism of the Scottish Church, 48. The Westminster Assembly of

Divines, 49. The Scotch Commissioners, 50. The Directory for the

Public Worship of God, 52. Montrose's Campaigns, 53. His Defeat at

Philiphaugh, 55. Progress of the Civil War in England, 56. The Presby-

terians, Independents, and Erastians, 57. The King seeks Shelter in the

Scotch Lines, 58. The Scotch deliver up the King, 59. The Confession

of Faith, Catechisms, and Rouse's Psalms, 60, 61. The " Engagement,"

62. Defeat of the Engagers, and the " Whiggamores' Raid," 63, 64.

Execution of King Charles I., 64. Defeat and Death of Montrose, 65.

Charles II. takes the Covenant and comes to Scotland, 66. The Battle of

Dunbar, 69. The Remonstrants, 70. Repeal of the Act of Classes, 72.

Resolutioners and Protesters, 73. The Battle of Worcester, 73. The

General Assembly dissolved by Cromwell, 74. Behaviour of the Puritans

in Scotland, 74. Religious Feuds, 75. The Religion of the Covenanting

Time, 76, 77. General Monk marches upon London, 78.