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

Author: George Gillespie

Contributor: W. M. Hetherington

 
Release date: October 8, 2008 [eBook #26849]
 Most recently updated: June 20, 2020

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, VIZ., BECAUSE THEY ARE URGED UPON SUCH AS, IN
 THEIR CONSCIENCES, DO CONDEMN THEM.
 CHAPTER VI. THAT THE CEREMONIES TAKE AWAY CHRISTIAN LIBERTY PROVED
 BY A FOURTH REASON, VIZ., BECAUSE THEY ARE PRESSED UPON US BY NAKED
 WILL AND AUTHORITY, WITHOUT GIVING ANY REASON TO SATISFY OUR
 CONSCIENCES.
 CHAPTER VII. THAT FESTIVAL DAYS TAKE AWAY OUR LIBERTY, WHICH GOD
 HATH GIVEN US, PROVED; AND FIRST OUT OF THE LAW.
 CHAPTER VIII. THAT FESTIVAL DAYS TAKE AWAY OUR CHRISTIAN LIBERTY,
 PROVED OUT OF THE GOSPEL.
 CHAPTER IX. SHOWING THE WEAKNESS OF SOME PRETENCES WHICH OUR
 OPPOSITES USE FOR HOLIDAYS.
 THE SECOND PART. AGAINST THE EXPEDIENCY OF THE CEREMONIES.
 CHAPTER I. AGAINST SOME OF OUR OPPOSITES, WHO ACKNOWLEDGE THE
 INCONVENIENCY OF THE CEREMONIES, AND YET WOULD HAVE US YIELD TO
 THEM.
 CHAPTER II. AGAINST THOSE OF OUR OPPOSITES WHO PLEAD FOR THE
 CEREMONIES AS THINGS EXPEDIENT.
 CHAPTER III. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE INEXPEDIENT, BECAUSE THEY ARE
 PREPARATIVES FOR GREATER EVILS.
 CHAPTER IV. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE INEXPEDIENT, BECAUSE THEY HINDER
 EDIFICATION.
 CHAPTER V. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE INEXPEDIENT, BECAUSE THEY ARE
 OCCASIONS OF INJURY AND CRUELTY.
 CHAPTER VI. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE INEXPEDIENT, BECAUSE THEY HARDEN
 AND CONFIRM THE PAPISTS.
 CHAPTER VII. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE INEXPEDIENT, BECAUSE THEY
 DISTURB THE PEACE OF THE CHURCH.
 CHAPTER VIII. THAT THE INEXPEDIENCY OF THE CEREMONIES, IN RESPECT OF
 THE SCANDAL OF THE WEAK, MAY BE PLAINLY PERCEIVED. TWELVE
 PROPOSITIONS TOUCHING SCANDAL ARE PREMITTED.
 CHAPTER IX. ALL THE DEFENCES OF THE CEREMONIES, USED TO JUSTIFY THEM
 AGAINST THE SCANDAL IMPUTED TO THEM, ARE CONFUTED.
 THE THIRD PART. AGAINST THE LAWFULNESS OF THE CEREMONIES.
 CHAPTER I. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE UNLAWFUL, BECAUSE SUPERSTITIOUS,
 WHICH IS PARTICULARLY INSTANCED IN HOLIDAYS, AND MINISTERING THE
 SACRAMENTS IN PRIVATE PLACES.
 CHAPTER II. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE UNLAWFUL BECAUSE THEY ARE
 MONUMENTS OF BY-PAST IDOLATRY, WHICH NOT BEING NECESSARY TO BE
 RETAINED, SHOULD BE UTTERLY ABOLISHED, BECAUSE OF THEIR IDOLATROUS
 ABUSES: ALL WHICH IS PARTICULARLY MADE GOOD OF KNEELING.
 CHAPTER III. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE UNLAWFUL, BECAUSE THEY SORT US
 WITH IDOLATERS, BEING THE BADGES OF PRESENT IDOLATRY AMONG THE
 PAPISTS.
 CHAPTER IV. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE IDOLS AMONG THE FORMALISTS
 THEMSELVES; AND THAT KNEELING IN THE LORD'S SUPPER BEFORE THE BREAD
 AND WINE, IN THE ACT OF RECEIVING THEM, IS FORMALLY IDOLATRY.
 CHAPTER V. THE FIFTH ARGUMENT AGAINST THE LAWFULNESS OF THE
 CEREMONIES TAKEN FROM THE MYSTICAL AND SIGNIFICANT NATURE OF THEM.
 CHAPTER VI. THAT THE LAWFULNESS OF THE CEREMONIES IS FALSELY
 GROUNDED UPON THE HOLY SCRIPTURE; WHERE SUCH PLACES AS ARE ALLEGED
 BY OUR OPPOSITES, EITHER FOR ALL THE CEREMONIES IN GENERAL, OR FOR
 ANY ONE OF THEM IN PARTICULAR, ARE VINDICATED FROM THEM.
 CHAPTER VII. THAT THE LAWFULNESS OF THE CEREMONIES CANNOT BE
 WARRANTED BY ANY ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, NOR BY ANY POWER WHICH THE
 CHURCH HATH TO PUT ORDER TO THINGS BELONGING TO DIVINE WORSHIP.
 CHAPTER VIII. THAT THE LAWFULNESS OF THE CEREMONIES CANNOT BE
 WARRANTED BY ANY ORDINANCE OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE; WHOSE POWER IN
 THINGS SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL IS EXPLAINED.
 DIGRESSION I. OF THE VOCATION OF MEN OF ECCLESIASTICAL ORDER.
 DIGRESSION II. OF THE CONVOCATION AND MODERATION OF SYNODS.
 DIGRESSION III. OF THE JUDGING OF CONTROVERSIES AND QUESTIONS OF
 FAITH.
 DIGRESSION IV. OF THE POWER OF THE KEYS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL
 CENSURES.
 CHAPTER IX. THAT THE LAWFULNESS OF THE CEREMONIES CANNOT BE
 WARRANTED BY THE LAW OF NATURE.
 THE FOURTH PART. AGAINST THE INDIFFERENCY OF THE CEREMONIES.
 CHAPTER I. OF OUR OPPOSITES' PLEADING FOR THE INDIFFERENCY OF THE
 CEREMONIES.
 CHAPTER II. OF THE NATURE OF THINGS INDIFFERENT.
 CHAPTER III. WHETHER THERE BE ANYTHING INDIFFERENT IN ACTU EXERCITO.
 CHAPTER IV. OF THE RULE BY WHICH WE ARE TO MEASURE AND TRY WHAT
 THINGS ARE INDIFFERENT.
 CHAPTER V. THE FIRST POSITION WHICH WE BUILD UPON THE GROUND
 CONFIRMED IN THE FORMER CHAPTER.
 CHAPTER VI. ANOTHER POSITION BUILT UPON THE SAME GROUND.
 CHAPTER VII. OTHER POSITIONS BUILT UPON THE FORMER GROUND.
 CHAPTER VIII. THAT THE CEREMONIES ARE NOT THINGS INDIFFERENT TO THE
 CHURCH OF SCOTLAND; BECAUSE SHE DID ABJURE AND REPUDIATE THEM BY A
 MOST SOLEMN AND GENERAL OATH.
 CHAPTER IX. A RECAPITULATION OF SUNDRY OTHER REASONS AGAINST THE
 INDIFFERENCY OF THE CEREMONIES.
A BROTHERLY EXAMINATION OF SOME PASSAGES OF MR COLEMAN'S LATE SERMON UPON
JOB XI. 20.
 NOTICE.
 EXTRACT FROM COLEMAN'S SERMON.
 A BROTHERLY EXAMINATION, &c.
NIHIL RESPONDES: OR A DISCOVERY OF THE EXTREME UNSATISFACTORINESS OF MR
COLEMAN'S PIECE.
 THAT MR COLEMAN DOTH NOT ONLY PREVARICATE, BUT CONTRADICT HIMSELF,
 CONCERNING THE S

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