A vindication of the authority, constitution, and laws of the church and state of Scotland
Subtitle: in four conferences, wherein the answer to the Dialogues betwixt the Conformist and the Non-conformist is examined
By: by Gilbert Burnet ... ; [Observations on the first and second of the canons commonly ascribed to the Holy Apostles : wherein an account of the primitive constitution and government of churches is contained : drawn from ancient and acknowledged writings].
Contributors: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
Publisher: By Robert Sanders, printer ...
Published: 1673
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Church of Scotland -- Government -- Early works to 1800; Church and state -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800; Dissenters, Religious -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: No collective t.p. Titles transcribed from individual title leaves (leaves A1 and 2B4).

The "Observations on the first and second of the canons" bears no statement of authorship, but is attributed to Burnet. Cf. Wing; Halkett & Laing.

"[Written] in defense of the government against some seditious books ... These books were the Jus populi of Sir James Stewart ... and the True nonconformist of McWard"--A life of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury / by T.E.S. Clarke, H.C. Foxcroft. The "Dialogues" claimed on the t.p. to have provoked these writings was a work by Burnet published anonymously in 1669 under title: A modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a nonconformist about the present distempers of Scotland. Cf. Clarke, p. 74, [522].

Signatures: A-X⁸ 2A-2I⁸ 2K⁴ (2K4 probably blank; wanting in LC copy).

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B5938A

Aldis, H.G.  Scotland, 1977

Clarke & Foxcroft.  Burnet, p. 523

ESTC R206010

LC copy has armorial bookplate: Hog of Newliston.