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CALAMY,
EDMUND
A
Practical Discourse Concerning Vows: With Special Reference to Baptism and the
Lord's Supper (1697)
Everything you always wanted to
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474). Smith further states, "Mr. Calamy was one of the most popular
preachers in London, and frequently appointed to preach before the long
parliament; for which the prelatical party have treated him with unmerited
abuse" (idem.)
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CALDERWOOD, DAVID
The
Altar of Damascus or the Pattern of the English Hierarchy, and Church Policy
Obtruded Upon the Church of Scotland (1621)
Considered by many to be one of
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Church of England (and thus Prelacy and the English Popish ceremonies which the
most faithful Reformers have always condemned--RB). The original of the Latin
work was a tract in English, published in 1621. It is said that King James, on
reading this looked melancholy, and being asked the cause pointed to the
formidable treatise. "Let not that trouble your majesty," said the
courtier, "I shall soon answer it." "Answer what man""
replied the King, "there is nothing there but Scripture, reason, and the
fathers" (Johnston, Treasury of the Scottish Covenant, p. 284).
The "Altare Damascenum" is beyond comparison
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whole controversy between the English and Scottish divines as to government,
discipline, and worship
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CALDERWOOD, DAVID
The History of the Kirk of
Scotland
(8 volumes)
"The extensive
learning and eminent talents of the Rev. David Calderwood, his matured
experience in ecclesiastical affairs, and especially in those of his native
country, the persecutions he had endured for his beloved Church, and the
numerous works he had written in its defence, all qualified him, in the happiest
manner, for becoming a Historian of the Kirk of Scotland. Above all, when the
narrative was to be one of struggle and suffering, in which the principalities
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in collecting and arranging the materials necessary for such an important task.
At last, when he had reached his seventy-third year, the General Assembly, for
the purpose of enabling him to perfect his work, granted him an annual pension
of 800 pounds Scots. Calderwood died only two years afterwards; but he lived to
accomplish his purpose of writing the History of our National Church from the
commencement of the Reformation to the close of the reign of James the Sixth,
in two, if not three successive and copious revisals" (Preface to volume
one, pp. v-vi). More on the prominent role Calderwood played in the church of
his day is supplied by Johnston, in his Treasury of the Scottish Covenant (p. 47), when he writes
that "the Second Book of Discipline was sworn to in the National Covenant
in 1581, and revised by the Assembly of 1638. The most important parts of the
book were legalized in 1592, and again in 1690. Calderwood, the historian,
edited "The First and Second Book of Discipline," printed in
1621." Furthermore, the Dictionary of Scottish Church History and
Theology
(p. 118) tells us that Calderwood was "excluded from the church courts
when he opposed Bishop James Law of Orkney's (FES VII, 322) substitution of royal
supporters in place of the Presbytery's duly elected representatives to the
General Assembly. But when King James VI visited Scotland in 1617, Calderwood
and 54 other ministers meeting in Edinburgh wrote a protest against the King's
intention that the monarch and men of his preference should appoint forms of
worship and discipline in the Church. Calderwood was required to appear with
Archibald Simson before the King at St. Andrews, where
from his knees he boldly opposed the King's will and asserted the freedom of
the General Assembly to control the Church's ceremonies and government
(emphasis added, and some today say these are points of little or no
consequence -- how different from our Reformed forefathers--RB).
Calderwood was deprived of his charge, imprisoned and banished. In 1619 he went to
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draft a directory for public worship, to fill a need for guidelines after the
episcopal conventions had been removed (in keeping with the Solemn League and
Covenant--RB)." The same article, commenting on this eight volume
history, relates, "it is a major source for the
history of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation until 1625." This massive set (of
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index and Thomson's "Life of David Calderwood." The contents are
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the descent of the Scots from the ancient Gauls, but formally covering the
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available no where else (that we know of) are also included in this set. Must
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The Pastor and the Prelate or
Reformation and Conformity Shortly Compared (First American edition of 1844).
This 17th century work refutes prelacy. Calderwood, bound by solemn oath to
defend the doctrine and discipline of Biblical Presbyterian government and
worship, and to oppose the hierarchy, along with all rites and ceremonies added
to the worship of God, does a masterful job here. He uses the Word of God and
the proceedings of the ancient and Reformation churches to make his points. He
deals with controversies over things "indifferent," people's souls,
state and society, etc. - as they are affected by these two systems of
government. He points out the far reaching consequences of the implementation
of various systems of church government and worship, showing how these specific
ideas are eventually mirrored in the culture in general. Summarizing, he notes
the classic saying concerning these matters and their consequences in the civil
realm, "no ceremony no bishop, no bishop no king," and in the
ecclesiastical arena, "no ceremony no prelate, no prelate no pope."
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The True History of the
Church of Scotland, From the Beginning of the Reformation, unto the end of the
Reigne of King James VI (1678)
This is the officially sanctioned history of the Church of Scotland, written,
as the title page notes, by "appointment of the General Assembly, by whom
his laboures herein were several times revised and examined, and at length
approved for the Press." The title continues: "Wherein, besides some
touches of the Civil State and Alteration of Affaires, in their due order;
there is not only a series of the Assemblies, and of the Principal of their
Actings recorded; but also a full and plaine Relation of the Trials and
Troubles, which the Church did meet with from Enemies to the purity of the
Doctrine, Worship, Discipline and Government; of the several Alterations,
caused or occasioned thereby; of the many sad and lamentable faintings and
backslidings of Persons, sometimes eminent in the Church; of the faithful
contendings of others for the Prerogatives of Christ, as the alone Head of the
Church, for the purity of His Institutions, and for the Liberty and Privileges
of His Church and Kingdom, against all the Enemies thereof; and particularly
against Erastianisme and Prelacy, the two grand Enemies of the Discipline and
Government of the Church of Christ, and of their sad sufferings upon the
account thereof." 845 pages.
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