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Title: The Scottish Reformation
Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics

Author: Alexander F. Mitchell

Editor: David Hay Fleming

Release Date: July 9, 2007 [EBook #22023]

Language: English

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THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION

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THE
SCOTTISH REFORMATION

Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and
Distinctive Characteristics

(Being the Baird Lecture for 1899)

BY THE LATE
ALEXANDER F. MITCHELL, D.D., LL.D.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY
IN ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY

EDITED BY

D. HAY FLEMING, LL.D.

_WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR
BY JAMES CHRISTIE, D.D._

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCC

PREFACE.

Few men have shown more indomitable application to an arduous duty, amid
physical weakness and bodily pain, than did the author of these Lectures
in their preparation and revision. In the MS. there are a goodly number
of additions and minute alterations in his own hand--some of them very
tremulous, some of them in ink, some of them in pencil. He intended to
revise them still more carefully ere they were published; but expressed
the desire that, if he were not spared to do so, I would see them
through the press. The Master, whom he served so long and so faithfully,
having released him from the work he loved so well, and from the
suffering he so patiently endured, the final revision has devolved upon
me.

On the suggestion of Professor Robertson the book has been arran