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TEELINCK, WILLIAM
The Resting Place of the Mind, that is a propounding of the
wonderful providence of God whereupon a Christian man ought to rest and repose
himself even when all our outward means of helps are cut off from him. 1622.
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Puritanism" (p. 99).
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Songs To Be Used in the Worship of God (1848)
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THOMPSON, ELBERT N.S.
The Controversy Between The Puritans and the Stage (1903,
Yale Studies in English)
This book gives a detailed
account of the Puritans' opposition to theatre and the various reasons why they
opposed it. Thompson analyses the
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historical context. This includes a whole chapter on William Prynne's massive
blast against the stage, Histro-Mastic, the
Players Scourge. He also looks at how supporters of theatre,
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Puritans. This latter part is interesting because it shows that Puritans were
the object of abuse in a number of plays in the 1600s, much like Christians
today are caricatured on television and in movies. William Shakespeare,
however, deliberately avoided offending Puritans. Shakespeare thought highly of
the Lollards, and if he was "unwilling even apparently to ridicule a
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vileness of a rapidly deteriorating drama (p. 266)."
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against all stage plays per se, but rather against the abuse of them (which was common in
their day). Moreover, some Puritans
themselves, as Scholes points out (in The
Puritans and Music), approved of the opera -- and earlier
Reformers like John Foxe, the famous martyrologist,
even wrote a play himself (titled Christus Triumphans)! Furthermore, Thompson notes that
"Calvin seems to have yielded to the popular demand for stage-plays" (p.
262n) and the Westminster Larger Catechism (Answer
139) is careful to condemn "lascivious" stage plays, not all stage
plays in general. This is in keeping with
the rulings of the Scottish General Assembly
concerning stage plays as noted below,
For as much as it
is considered that the playing of clerk-plays, comedies, or tragedies upon the
canonical parts of Scripture, induceth and bringeth in with a contempt and
profanation of the same. Therefore it is thought meet, and ordained that no
clerk-plays, comedies and tragedies be acted of the canonical Scriptures either
of the New or Old Testament on the Sabbath day or work days in time coming; and
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others, that they be censured and disciplined of the Kirk. And that an article
be given in to such as sit upon policy that comedies, tragedies, and other
profane plays which are not made upon authentic parts of Scripture, may be
considered before they be acted publicly,
and that they be not acted upon the Lord's Day (Edinburgh, March, 1575)... That his Grace would
discharge the plays of Robin Hood, King of May, and such others on the
Sabbath Day (Edinburgh, April, 1577)
(David Calderwood, True History of the Church of Scotland, one volume edition,
pp. 822, 823, 825, emphases added).
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A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ Being the
Last Speeches and Testimonies of those Who Have Suffered for the Truth in
Scotland Since... 1680
An amazing book compiled to show how -- and especially why (from their own
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The Martyr Graves of Scotland
"The volume consists of a series of papers descriptive of the visits made
by Mr. Thomson (who was an excellent classical scholar--RB) to the graves of
the martyrs, and to places closely associated with memorable events in
Covenanting history," writes the editor Matthew Hutchison. The lives and
principles of the martyrs are woven in throughout these descriptions. Includes
David Hay Fleming's "Story of the Scottish Covenants in Outline," as
an introduction. 552 pages, indexed and illustrated.
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Alexander Henderson the Covenanter
"The period which followed the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England
contains the opening of that contest between Presbytery and Episcopacy, which
occupies so much of our history, and some of its most interesting episodes took
place between 1618-1646, the years which comprise the active public life of him
who is the subject of the following pages. For this reason the life and career
of Alexander Henderson must always possess the greatest interest to any student
of Scottish history... The virtues of the great are apt to be overestimated
after they are dead and gone, but there is not one word of exaggeration in the
eulogy which Baillie delivered to the General Assembly in 1647,... 'That glorious
soul of blessed memory, who now is crowned with the reward of all his labours
for God and for us, I wish his remembrance may be fragrant among us, so long as
free and pure Assemblies remain in this land, which we hope shall be to the
coming of the Lord. You know he spent his strength, and wore out his days, he
breathed out his life in the service of God and of his Church. This binds it on
our back, as we would not prove ungrateful, to pay him his due. If the thoughts
of others be conformed to my inmost sense, in duty and reason, he ought to be
accounted by us and posterity the fairest ornament, after John Knox, of
incomparable memory, that we the Church of Scotland did enjoy'" (pp. 5,
158). Henderson had a major hand in the writing of and international
subscription to the Solemn League and Covenant. He was also one of the Scottish
commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
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The Scottish Covenanters 1637-1688
Contains a fair selection of constitutional documents and "a considerable
amount of space has been devoted to passages illustrating the social life of
the period." All in all this is a nice, easy-reading introduction to the
people and period it deals with -- one of the historic high points in the
history of theology and faithful Christian testimony. 120 pages.
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THORBURN, JOHN
Vindiciae Magistratus: or, the Divine Institution and Right
of the Civil Magistrate Vindicated (1773)
The
title continues: "Wherein are properly stated
and ascertained, the true nature and extent of the moral power of civil society
and magistracy, legislative and executive. The just instituted authority of magistrates.
The inviolableness of just human laws and constitutions in general, and
particularly those of Scotland. The natural and unalienable rights of
individuals in, or with respect to civil society. And the true causes from
which a moral relation flows, and upon which a moral obligation is founded,
etc. Against the truly factious and immoral doctrine of John Thomson (Burger
Associate) minister of the gospel at Donaghclony in Ireland... maintained in
his pretended confutation of the principles of the Reformed Presbytery, in a
pamphlet entitled The Presbyterian Covenanter displayed in his political
Principles, and the Imposter detected. To which is subjoined by way of
appendix, A vindication of the constitution of the Reformed Presbytery, and of
the character, ministerial mission and authority of the Rev. Mr. John M'Millan
Senior, deceased, from the groundless cavils of Mr. W.W. and Seceders. By his
son. The whole being humbly offered as an apologetical representation and
defence of the principles of the said Presbytery, and of their people, commonly
known by the names of Old Dissenters, Cameronians, etc. against the injurious
charges and false imputations cast upon them, first by the established church
of Scotland, and then by the Secession." Goold, in his The
Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland: Its Origin and History 1680-1876, writes of Thorburn and this book, "He was a man
of studious habits, and his 'Vindiciae Magistratus,' in defence of the
principles of his Church against the attacks of the Secession, though lacking
the popular style of the writings of some of his brethren, was not inferior to
any of them in thorough grasp of the truth, and power of argument. Lord
Kames characterized it as the 'best defences of Whig principles;' and the late
Rev. Dr. A. M'Leod, of New York, himself a man of distinguished ability,
declared that he was more indebted to Mr. Thorburn, of Pentland, than to any
other man living or dead." Upon his death
Erskine said, "And he is gone! one of our greatest divines." Goold also notes of Thorburn that "a large
amount of work developed on him in connection with the preparation of the
'Judicial Act' (i.e. The Act, Declaration and Testimony for the Whole of Our
Covenanted Reformation--RB), so large
that he had to be freed for some time from his work as a preacher." He
"was the theologian of his Church; and in 1785 he
was unanimously appointed to be Tutor in Divinity to the students of the Church."
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