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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... Guthrie made no din" in that assembly. The Inst public appearance he made while minister of Stirling was in 1647, when the king was delivered by the Scots to the English parliament. He was among the number of those who exonerate! themselves of any share or approval of that transaction; "and as for the body of the ministry throughout the kingdom," says he, the far greater part disallowed it; howbeit, loalhness to be deprived of their function and livelihood restrained them from giving a testimony."' It has been already stated, that the Scottish clergy do not appear to have placed much confidence in Mr Guthrie; and from his opposition to many of their favourite measures, this is little to be wondered at. In 1647, when the parlin j raent declared for " the engagement," the ministers declaimed against it, as containing no provision for the support of their religion; but Guthrie and some others preached up the lawfulness of the design, and although no notice was I taken of this at the time, no sooner was the Scottish army defeated, than they w ere/considered proper subjects of discipline. "Upon November fourteenth, 1618, came to Stirling that commission which the General Assembly had ap pointed, to depose ministers in the presbyteries of Stirling and D'umblane, for their malignancy, who thrust out Mr Henry Guthrie and Mr John Allan, ministers of the town of Stirling," 4Vc." From the period of his dismissal from his charge, till after the Restoration, Guthrie lived in retirement. He is mentioned by Lamont of Newton, as "minister of Kilspindie in the Carse of Gowrie;3 but the Rev. Mr Macgregor Stirling, in his edition of Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire, merely says that he lived there. In 1661, when Mr James Guthrie was executed on account of his writings, He...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781153937276
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 382
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153937271
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 730 gr


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