Perth assembly

by David Calderwood

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Perth assembly Containing 1 The proceedings thereof. 2 The proofe of the nullitie thereof. 2 [sic] Reasons presented thereto against the receiving the fiue new articles imposed.
Articles of Perth
Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.
By David Calderwood.
Probable printer attribution and place of publication from STC.
[6], 101, [1] p.
[Leiden : Printed by William Brewster], MDCXIX. [1619]
STC (2nd ed.) / 4360
English
Reproduction of the original in the Library of Congress


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118 pages, Paperback

Published July 13, 2010

About the author

David Calderwood (1575 – 1650) was a Church of Scotland minister and historian.

Calderwood was educated at Edinburgh, where he took the degree of MA in 1593. In about 1604, he became minister of Crailing, near Jedburgh in Roxburghshire, where he became conspicuous for his resolute opposition to the introduction of Episcopacy. In 1617, while James VI was in Scotland, a Remonstrance, which had been drawn up by the Presbyterian clergy, was placed in Calderwood's hands.

He was summoned to St. Andrews and examined before the king, but neither threats nor promises could make him deliver up the roll of signatures to the Remonstrance. He was deprived of his charge, committed to prison at St. Andrews and afterwards removed to Edinburgh. The Privy Council ordered him to be banished from the kingdom for refusing to acknowledge the sentence of the High Commission. He lingered in Scotland, publishing a few tracts, till 27 August 1619, when he sailed for Holland. During his residence in Holland he published his Altare Damascenum.

Calderwood appears to have returned to Scotland in 1624-1625. He was appointed minister of Pencaitland, in the county of East Lothian, in about 1640, where he was one of those appointed to draw up The Directory for Public Worship in Scotland.

He continued to take an active part in the affairs of the church, and introduced in 1649 the practice, now confirmed by long usage, of dissenting from the decision of the General Assembly, and requiring the protest to be entered in the record.

His last years were devoted to the preparation of The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland which was published in an abridged form in 1646.