An apologeticall relation, of the particular sufferings of the faithfull ministers & professours of the Church of Scotland, since August. 1660. : Wherein severall questions, usefull for the time, are discussed: the King's preroragative [sic] over parliaments & people soberly enquired into: the lawfulnes of defensive war cleared. The supreme magistrats power in church matters examined, Mr. Stilling fleet's, notion concerning the divine right of formes of church government, considered. The author of the seasonable case answered, other particulars, such as the hearing of the curats, appearing before the high commission court, &c. canvassed. Together with the rise reigne & ruine of the former prelats in Scotland. Being. a brieff account from history, of the government of the Church of Scotland, from the beginning, & of the many troubles which prelats have created to her, first & last. For satisfaction of strangers & incouragement of present sufferers. /
Brown, John,1610?-1679.
Guild, James Wyllie,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.III.d.30
[Edinburgh? : s.n.],
Printed in the yeer. 1665..
A well wisher to the good old cause = John Brown.
In part a reply to Irenicum by Edward Stillingfleet, and The seasonable case of submission to the church-government as now re-established by law, briefly stated and determined by Andrew Honyman.
Place of publication conjectured by Wing.
With a cutting from Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable library formed by J. Wyllie Guild, Esq., 17 Park Terrace, Glasgow, of which this item was lot 353, pasted onto recto of front free endpaper. The catalogue states that this work was printed in Holland.
With four final contents leaves.
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: James Wyllie Guild.
Unidentified contemporary inscription on verso of back flyleaf.
Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
Honyman, Andrew, 1619-1676.
Church of Scotland
Scotland Edinburgh.