Select biographies, ed. by W.K. Tweedie, Volume 1William King Tweedie Wodrow Society, 1847 - Scotland This two-volume set is one of the great treasures of Scottish Christian literature. In quick succession, we meet such justly famous and revered figures as John Welsh, David Dickson, William Guthrie, and James Fraser of Brea, but also the lesser known and long forgotten, like the land-laborer of Carrick, John Stevenson. Here are the stories and reflections of men and women who, in times of great darkness, testing, and suffering, tasted what the author of Hebrews calls 'the powers of the age to come'. The 17th century was a dynamic period in Scottish church history, and yet many of its rich records lay hidden in privately owned manuscripts for two hundred years. It was only with the evangelical awakening of the 1840s that close attention was given to their publication, and a Society, formed for that purpose in Edinburgh, took the name of the historian, Robert Wodrow (1679-1734). On the 26 volumes thus published subsequent authors have depended heavily, and particularly so with respect to the two volumes originally entitled Select Biographies. In an era when Puritan literature is again being rediscovered their reprint is timely, providing as it does the opportunity to go back to first-hand sources. Here, for the most part, men and women live in their own words, or in the witness of their contemporaries. The 19th-century editor, William Tweedie, himself an evangelical leader, thought it worthwhile to be the editor of this rare material, and all who have possessed them endorse his judgment. - Publisher. |
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... Truth , as ever , lies between the extremes ; and the facts which such Biogra- phies as the following narrate , supply data for guiding the reflec- tive to a right theory of Providence . They tend to render the beauty of truth more ...
... Truth , as ever , lies between the extremes ; and the facts which such Biogra- phies as the following narrate , supply data for guiding the reflec- tive to a right theory of Providence . They tend to render the beauty of truth more ...
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... JOHN NISBET In HardHill , his last Testimony to the Truth ; with a Short Account of his Last Words on the Scaffold , December 4 , M.DC.LXXXV . • 17 33 69 89 377 A RARE SOUL - STRENGTHENING AND COMFORTING CORDIAL FOR OLD.
... JOHN NISBET In HardHill , his last Testimony to the Truth ; with a Short Account of his Last Words on the Scaffold , December 4 , M.DC.LXXXV . • 17 33 69 89 377 A RARE SOUL - STRENGTHENING AND COMFORTING CORDIAL FOR OLD.
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... Truth's Victory over Error , first published in 1684. Mr George Sinclair , well known about that period by various productions , had translated an unpublished Latin treatise by Dickson on the Confession of Faith , assigned to it the ...
... Truth's Victory over Error , first published in 1684. Mr George Sinclair , well known about that period by various productions , had translated an unpublished Latin treatise by Dickson on the Confession of Faith , assigned to it the ...
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... truths of the doctrine according to godli- ness , as were recommended by their great importance , and exten- sive influence upon practical religion : herein conforming himself to the apostolical injunction , by insisting upon those ...
... truths of the doctrine according to godli- ness , as were recommended by their great importance , and exten- sive influence upon practical religion : herein conforming himself to the apostolical injunction , by insisting upon those ...
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... truths of religion , and so prepared the way for those which required a more enlight- ened understanding . He was careful not to expose the ignorant , so as to beget a distaste in them of the means of knowledge , nor to confound the ...
... truths of religion , and so prepared the way for those which required a more enlight- ened understanding . He was careful not to expose the ignorant , so as to beget a distaste in them of the means of knowledge , nor to confound the ...
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Page 393 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 520 - And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again, at the last day.
Page 392 - Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : _ for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 405 - I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps : and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders ; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Page 424 - For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him ; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Page 393 - Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory...
Page 395 - And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Page 393 - Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism unto death : that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 401 - And he shall be for a sanctuary ; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Page 404 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another : And the Lord hearkened, and heard it, And a book of remembrance was written before him For them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.