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

Author: George Gillespie

Release Date: October 8, 2008 [Ebook #26849]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKS OF MR. GEORGE GILLESPIE (VOL. 1 OF 2)***

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 CEREMONIES, BECAUSE OF THE CHURCH'S APPOINTMENT, CONFUTED.
CHAPTER III. THAT THE CEREMONIES THUS IMPOSED AND URGED AS THINGS
NECESSARY, DO BEREAVE US OF OUR CHRISTIAN LIBERTY, FIRST, BECAUSE
OUR PRACTICE IS ADSTRICTED.
CHAPTER IV. THAT THE CEREMONIES TAKE AWAY OUR CHRISTIAN LIBERTY
PROVED BY A SECOND REASON, NAMELY, BECAUSE CONSCIENCE ITSELF IS
BOUND AND ADSTRICTED.
CHAPTER V. THAT THE CEREMONIES TAKE AWAY CHRISTIAN LIBERTY, PROVED
BY A THIRD REASON,