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Scottish Puritans - Select Biographies 2 Volume Set
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Scottish Puritans - Select Biographies 2 Volume Set

ISBN: 9781848710160
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Scottish Puritans - Select Biographies constitute 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-labourer 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.

Volume One
Of the two volumes packed with biography, the first tells the story of John welsh, Patrick simson, and John Livingstone, men 'who acted a prominent part in their eventful times but whose histories were not so generally known'.
Also included in Volume One are:
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the Last and Heavenly Speeches of John, Viscount Kenmure (attributed to Samuel Rutherford)
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the Memoirs of Walter Pringle
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the Soliloquies of Mrs Janet of Earlstoun

Volume Two
Volume Two contains the lives of David Dickson, William Guthrie, and James Fraser of Brea.
Alongside the records of these three leaders are to be found the stories of lesser-known Christians:  John Nisbet, John Stevenson, Mrs Goodal, Lady Coltness, Lady Anne Elcho

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Endorsements:

'This is a magnificent two-volume set, calculated to stir the soul and to find a place of honour and affection in every Christian who loves to read the thrilling history of the Scottish church!'
--SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON

'In these records we find a whole gallery of men and women whose lives and deaths speak to us of apostolic Christianity. Although not to be used as models in all things, the Scottish Puritans and Covenanters still exemplify the same kind of spiritual and missionary zeal that has ever been associated with the advance of the kingdom of God. Their lives were centred on the Word of God and prayer and they enjoyed real communion with Christ. They knew the Holy Spirit and believed in his power to change lives and nations. What Spurgeon once said of David Dickson's Explanation of the Psalms we say of Scottish Puritans - Select Biographies, "We comment it with much fervour".'
--IAIN H. MURRAY

Additional Information:

Cover: Hardcover, 2 volumes
Number of Pages: 1084
Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust
Publication Date: 2020