Biographia Scoticana:

OR, A

BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIVES, CHARACTERS, AND MEMORABLE

TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent

SCOTS WORTHIES.

A

COLLECTION

OF

LECTURES AND SERMONS,

Preached upon Several SUBJECTS, mostly in the

Time of the Late PERSECUTION.

Wherein a Faithful Doctrinal TESTIMONY is transmitted to Posterity for the DOCTRINE, WORSHIP, DISCIPLINE and GOVERNMENT of the Church of SCOTLAND against Popery, Prelacy, Erastianism, &c.

Faithful Contendings displayed:

BEING

An historical relation of the State and Actings of the suffering Remnant in the church of Scotland, who subsisted in Select Societies, and were united in general correspondencies during the hottest time of the late Persecution, viz. from the year 1681 to 1691.

TOGETHER WITH

An account of the State of the land in general, and of the Society people in particular, in the intervals betwixt each of their general meetings, with some pertinent remarks upon these historical occurrences, and many letters to and from the general correspondent meetings. &c.

Collected and kept in record by Mr. MICHAEL SHIELDS, who was clerk unto these general Societies, and personally present at most of their meetings.

MAL. iii. 16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another.

HEB. x. 25. Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

Ten Considerations on the danger of apostacy and defection from a covenanted work of reformation.  By Mr. James Guthrie, sometime minister of the Gospel at Stirling.

AS ALSO,

A Collection of very valuable Sermons, preached by these faithful and eminent Servants of Jesus Christ, Messrs. John Kid, John King, John Welch, John Blackadder, John Dickson and Gabriel Semple.

Collected and transcribed by JOHN HOWIE, and published at the desire of some of those who desire to own the same testimony that some of those authors owned and sealed with their blood.

G L A S G O W:

Printed by JOHN BRYCE, and Sold by him at his Shop,

opposite Gibson's-Wynd, SALT-MARKET.

M,DCC,LXXX.

FAITHFUL WITNESS-BEARING EXEMPLIFIED:

A

C O L L E C T I O N.

C O N T A I N I N G,

1. An Useful CASE OF CONSCIENCE, concerning Association with Idolaters, Infidels, Heretics, Malignants, &c.
   By Mr. HUGH BINNING.
2. A Solemn TESTIMONY AGAINST TOLERATION, and the prevailing Errors, Heresies, &c. by the Commissioners of the General Assembly, and by sundry Ministers in the Provinces of Perth and Fife.
3. THE HISTORY OF THE INDULGENCE.
   By Mr. JOHN BROWN, sometime Minister of the Gospel at WAMPHRAY.

To which is prefixed, a

P R E F A C E,

Concerning Association, Toleration, and what is now called

LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE.

Isa. viii. 12. Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy, &c.

Gal. v. 12. I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

Eph. i. 22.----And gave him to be Head over all things to the church.

KILMARNOCK:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. WILSON, BOOKSELLER.

M.DCC.LXXXIII.

REFORMATION PRINCIPLES, &c.

RE-EXHIBITED.

A

COLLECTION;

CONTAINING,

1. THE NATIONAL COVENANT and SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT, with the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SINS, and ENGAGEMENT TO DUTIES, as they were renewed at Douglas, July 24, 1712, with Accommodations to the present Times—Together with a PREFACE, containing a Narrative of the Manner of the Action, &c.
2. PLAIN REASONS FOR PRESBYTERIANS dissenting from the Revolution-Church of Scotland.

AS ALSO,

Their PRINCIPLES concerning CIVIL GOVERNMENT, and the Difference betwixt the Reformation and Revolution Principles.

NOW CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

Published for confirming the Weak, and informing

of the Misinformed in these Matters.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE OF

JOHN HOWIE:

Who lived in Lochgoin, Pariſh of Fenwick, and died

January 5th, 1793.