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The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

George Gillespie

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 934 pages

A collection of theological writings and essays by George Gillespie, a Scottish Presbyterian minister in Edinburgh and commissioner to the Westminster Assembly. Volume one includes a memoir of his life and a disputation against the imposition of English ceremonies on the Church of Scotland. It offers insight into seventeenth-century church debates and Puritan thought.

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THE WORKS OF
MR. GEORGE GILLESPIE
MINISTER OF EDINBURGH,
AND ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS FROM
SCOTLAND
TO THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY, 1644
NOW FIRST COLLECTED.
WITH MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,
BY M. W. HETHERINGTON, LL.D.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:
ROBERT OGLE AND OLIVER AND BOYD.
M. OGLE & SON AND WILLIAM COLLINS,
GLASGOW.
HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO, LONDON
1846.
Contents
ADVERTISEMENT.
MEMOIR OF THE REV. GEORGE GILLESPIE.
APPENDIX. EXTRACTS FROM WODROW'S ANALECTA
(MAITLAND CLUB EDITION)
DISPUTE AGAINST THE ENGLISH POPISH CEREMONIES
OBTRUDED ON THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
DEDICATION
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
PROLOGUE.
ORDER.
THE FIRST PART. AGAINST THE NECESSITY OF THE
CEREMONIES.
CHAPTER I. THAT OUR OPPOSITES DO URGE
THE CEREMONIES AS THINGS NECESSARY.
CHAPTER II. THE REASON TAKEN OUT OF
ACTS XV. TO PROVE THE NECESSITY OF THE

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Contents

  1. Contents
  2. ADVERTISEMENT.
  3. MEMOIR OF THE REV. GEORGE GILLESPIE.
  4. APPENDIX. EXTRACTS FROM WODROW'S ANALECTA (MAITLAND CLUB EDITION)
  5. DISPUTE AGAINST THE ENGLISH POPISH CEREMONIES OBTRUDED ON THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
  6. A BROTHERLY EXAMINATION OF SOME PASSAGES OF MR COLEMAN'S LATE SERMON UPON JOB XI. 20.
  7. NIHIL RESPONDES: OR A DISCOVERY OF THE EXTREME UNSATISFACTORINESS OF MR COLEMAN'S PIECE.
  8. MALE AUDIS; OR, AN ANSWER TO MR COLEMAN'S MALE DICIS.
  9. ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING THE MINISTRY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH.
  10. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS AT THEIR LATE SOLEMN FAST
  11. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF LORDS, IN THE ABBEY CHURCH AT WESTMINSTER.
  12. Footnotes

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