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Excerpt from The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, From the Restoration to the Year 1678: To Which Is Added, an Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp Perhaps a juster estimate of Kirkton's method in conveying in struction from the pulpit, may be formed by perusing some notes of one sermon, printed from a ms., and another entire discourse, published after his death, which are subjoined to this notice. Yet, In The Memoirs and Spiritual Exercises of Elizabeth West, written by her own hand, very frequent and honourable mention is made of Kirkton, and his impressive style of preaching. Among other things, she says, Oftentimes Mr James Kirkton had this expression in the pulpit of Self, That dead dog, self! It is as easy to pull the marrow out of our bones, as to pull self out of our hearts.' She also mentions his disapprobation of a book which his sect are reported, by the author of the Presbyterian Eloquence, to have abhorred. There is a book which the curates have among them, which they call The Whole Duty of Man, ' which book is a clear discovery of their errors for in all that book there is nothing but morality preached up. The eminent servant of Christ, Mr James Kirkton, very frequently in the pulpit gave his testimony against this book; he said, that it was so far from being the whole duty of man, that it was not half of the duty of man for his thoughts were, that the whole duty of man consisted in receiving Christ; and in all this book there was never a word ofychrist, either as to receiving or employing him in any thing whatsoever; and yet they cry up this book before all others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Learn about the fascinating history of the Scottish church in Records of the Kirk of Scotland. You will marvel at the captivating details about Scotland's confession of faith. Excerpt: Wee All and every one of us underwritten, Protest, That... are now throughly resolved of the Truth, by the Word and Spirit of God...

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The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration England revelling in its freedom from the austerity of Puritan rule under a merry monarch and reconstructs the human tragedy of Restoration politics where people were brutalised, hounded and exploited by a regime that was desperately insecure after two decade of civil war and republican rule.