A Discourse on Scottish Church History
by Charles Wordsworth (9781117404257)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. REVOLUTION?DISRUPTION. Isaiah liv. 2.?"Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes." T)ESTIMING- the discussion of the subject upon J-i which we were engaged last Sunday?we have now arrived at our third epoch?the epoch of The Revolution of 1690. It was on the Fast Day appointed by the General Assembly, and sanctioned and enjoined by the Privy Council, to be kept on January 7, 1691, that Lawrence Charteris, then minister of Dirleton, having conformed to the Revolution Settlement, in a public discourse addressed to the people of his parish, thus expressed his sentiments: ? " All who are wise and have a right sense of true religion, cannot but see there has been a great defection among us; . . . a defection from the life of God and the power of religion, and from the temper and conversation which the Gospel requires of us."But whereas the Act ordering the Fast had expressly named the introduction of Prelacy at the Restoration as one of the sins for which the nation had cause to be humbled and to repent, to this Mr Charteris demurred. " I cannot think," he went on to say, " that the settling of an imparity among the officers of the Church is to be looked upon as a defection, or that it is a thing in itself unlawful, or that it was of itself introductory of the abounding of wickedness and scandals in the Church. This I may with the greatest confidence affirm, that religion never flourished more in the world than it did when and where there was an imparity among the officers of the Church. And this I know, that some famous Protestant Churches do allow Episcopacy, and continue to this day under that form of government." And then, turning the tables upon the mem...

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