Masked popery and pyrrhonian uncertainty: The early Scottish covenanters on Arminianism

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-177

  Mullan, David G ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.00032     Document Type: Article

References (109)

1. There is a growing body of literature on English Arminianism, embodying a substantial debate. See, inter alia, H. C. Porter, Reform and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge, Cambridge 1958
2. Peter White, 'The Rise of Arminianism Reconsidered', Past and Present, Vol. 101, 1983
3. Nicholas Tyacke and Peter White, 'Debate: The Rise of Arminianism Reconsidered', Past and Present, Vol. 115, 1987
4. Nicholas Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism, c. 1590-1640, Oxford 1987
5. Peter White, Predestination, Policy and Polemic: Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War, Cambridge 1992
6. David Hoyle, 'A Commons Investigation of Arminianism and Popery in Cambridge on the Eve of the Civil War', Historical Journal, Vol. 29, 1986
7. David G. Mullan, 'Theology in the Church of Scotland, 1618-c. 1640: A Calvinist Consensus?', Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 26, 1995
8. 'Arminianism in the Lord's Assembly: Glasgow, 1638', Records of the Scottish Church History Society, forthcoming
9. Alexander Peterkin, Records of the Kirk of Scotland, Edinburgh 1838, p. 155
10. Robert Baillie, An antidote against Arminianisme, London 1641, pp. 18-20
11. William Hetherington, History of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh 1842, p. 242
12. see also John Cunningham, The Church History of Scotland, 2nd edn, Edinburgh 1882, Vol. 2, p. 48
13. Elizabeth Melville, Ane godlie dreame, compylit in Scottish metre, Edinburgh 1603, A2v
14. Robert Monteith of Salmonet, The history of the troubles of Great Britain, J. Ogilvie (trans.), London 1735 (orig. 1661), p. ii
15. William J. Bouwsma, 'Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture', in After the Reformation: Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter, Barbara C. Malament (ed.), Manchester 1980, pp. 215-46
16. Robert Baillie, Letters and Journals, Edinburgh 1841-2, Vol. 1, p. 66
17. Robert Baillie, Anabaptism, London 1647,3v
18. Robert Baillie, A parallel or briefe comparison of the liturgy with the masse-booke, London 1641, A2r-v
19. William Forbes, Considerationes modestae et pacificae, Oxford 1850-6, Vol. 2, pp. 507, 609
20. Robert Baillie, A large supplement of the Canterburian self-conviction, [London] 1641, p. 17
21. Robert Baillie, Errours and induration, London 1645, A2v
22. William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait, New York 1988, p. 35
23. Stuart Clark, 'Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft', Past and Present, Vol. 87, 1980, p. 103
24. Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists, p. 247
25. Forbes, Considerationes, Vol. 1, p. 3
26. Andrew Ramsay, A warning to come out of Babylon, Edinburgh 1638, p. 40
27. Andrew C. Fix, Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment, Princeton 1991, ch. 1
28. Richard A. Muller, God, Creation, and Providence in the Thought of Jacob Arminius, Grand Rapids 1991, pp. 281-2
29. Nicholas Tyacke, 'Arminianism and English Culture', in Britain and the Netherlands 7: Church and State since the Reformation, A. C. Duke and C. A. Tamse (eds), The Hague 1981, p. 106
30. Ancient scepticism was revived in the sixteenth century by the publication in 1562 of Sextus Empiricus. See Richard H. Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, rev. edn., New York 1968
31. Johannes Kühn, Toleranz und Offenbarung, Leipzig 1923, pp. 363-74
32. James Arminius, Works, James Nichols and William Nichols (trans.), London 1825-75, Vol. 1, p. 388
33. Arminius, Works, Vol. 1, p. 464
34. Carl Bangs, Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation, 2nd edn, Grand Rapids 1985, p. 278
35. Simon Episcopius, Opera theologica, The Hague 1678, p. 4, where he stated, 'Theologiam non esse scientiam speculativem, sed practicam', and stressed that this was the authentic mind of the Bible
36. See also Leszek Kolakowski, Chrétiens sans Église: La conscience réligieuse et le lien confessionel au XVIIe siècle, Anna Posner (trans.), nouvelle édition, Paris 1987 [Polish orig. 1965], p. 82
37. Frederick Calder, Memoirs of Simon Episcopius, New York 1837, pp. 252-3
38. Calder, Memoirs, pp. 264-6
39. New College, Baillie Mss I, pp. 1, 5
40. Samuel Rutherford, The due right of presbyteries, London 1644, p. 366. The pagination in this book is badly corrupted: 1-497; 484; 185-468. The references here are to the latter pages
41. Samuel Rutherford, Examen arminianismi, Utrecht 1668, pp. 91-2
42. Rutherford, Examen, p. 46
43. Samuel Rutherford, A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience, London 1649, p. 101
44. [Alexander Henderson?], Reformation of the church-government in Scotland, London 1644, p. 21
45. [Henderson?], Reformation, p. 6
46. George Gillespie, Male audis, or an answer to Mr Coleman his Male dicis, London 1646, p. 17
47. David G. Mullan, '"Uniformity in Religion": The Solemn League and Covenant (1643) and the Presbyterian Vision', in Later Calvinism: International Perspectives, W. Fred Graham (ed.), Kirksville, Mo, 1994, p. 263
48. David Dickson, Select Practical Writings, Edinburgh 1845, p. 93
49. English Calvinist bishops thought otherwise. See Jonathan M. Atkins, 'Calvinist Bishops, Church Unity, and the Rise of Arminianism', Albion, Vol. 18, 1986, p. 415
50. Samuel Rutherford, Fourteen Communion Sermons, A. A. Bonar (ed.), 2nd edn, Glasgow 1877, p. 21
51. Ramsey, Warning, pp. 26-7
52. Samuel Rutherford, Christ dying and drawing sinners to himselfe, London 1647, p. 326
53. Alexander Henderson, Sermon 18 July 1644, London 1644, p. 4
54. Samuel Rutherford, The covenant of life opened, Edinburgh 1655, pp. 311-12
55. Stephen Strehle, Calvinism, Federalism, and Scholasticism, Bern 1988, p. 191
56. Robert Baillie, Satan the leader in chief, London 1643, p. 26
57. Alexander Henderson, Sermons, Prayers, and Pulpit Addresses, 1638, R. Thomson Martin (ed.), Edinburgh [1867], p. 50
58. See also Baillie, Ladensium, p. 18
59. Rutherford, Covenant of life, p. 2
60. Rutherford, Covenant, p. 65
61. Rutherford, Christ dying, (b)4v
62. Rutherford, Christ dying, p. 368
63. Baillie, Large supplement, p. 27
64. Baillie, Satan, 50-1
65. Piotr S. Wandycz, The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, London 1992, p. 5
66. Arthur H. Williamson, 'The Jewish Dimension of the Scottish Apocalypse: Climate, Covenant and World Renewal', in Menasseh Ben Israel and His World, Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, and Richard H. Popkin (eds), Leiden 1989, p. 8
67. Philopatris [William Moore or Mure], A counter-buff to Lysimachus Nicanor, [Edinburgh] 1640, esp. p. 5
68. William Cowper, The workes, London 1623, p. 255
69. A Collection of several remarkable and valuable Speeches and Exhortations at renewing and subscribing the National Covenant of Scotland, Glasgow 1741, pp. 4-5
70. Also in James Kerr, The Covenants and the Covenanters, Edinburgh 1895
71. The passionate remonstrance made by his Holinesse in the conclave at Rome, Edinburgh 1641, in Aungervyle Society Reprints, 2nd ser., Edinburgh 1884, pp. 9-10
72. S. A. Burrell, 'The Apocalyptic Vision of the Early Covenanters', Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 43, 1964
73. David Calderwood, The History of the Kirk of Scotland, Edinburgh 1842-9, Vol. 7, p. 241
74. [George Gillespie], A dispute against the English-Popish ceremonies, [London?] 1637, A3r, Clr
75. A short relation of the state of the kirk of Scotland, [Edinburgh] 1638, A2r
76. A[lexander] H[ume] of Logie, Foure discourses, Edinburgh 1594, p. 35
77. Henderson, Sermons, p. 259
78. Rutherford, Fourteen Communion Sermons, p. 32
79. Henderson, Sermon 18 July 1644, A3r
80. Müller, God, Creation, and Providence, p. 281
81. Ane shorte and generali confession, Edinburgh 1581
82. The principall acts of the solemne generali assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 1638, Edinburgh 1639, p. 37
83. John S. Coolidge, The Pauline Renaissance in England: Puritanism and the Bible, Oxford 1970, p. 26
84. A full (and lengthy) list of such works would include the following: Henderson, Unlawfulnes and danger of limited prelacie
85. [Robert Baillie], Prelacie is miserie, [London] 1641
86. Robert Baillie, The unlawfulnesse and danger of limited episcopacie, London 1641
87. John Welsh, A reply against M. Gilbert Browne priest, Edinburgh 1602, C2r-C3r
88. On Remonstrant political theory, see Douglas Nobbs, Theocracy and Toleration: A Study of the Disputes in Dutch Calvinism from 1600 to 1650, Cambridge 1938, e.g., pp. 23ff
89. Bangs, Arminius, p. 336
90. George Gillespie, Aarons rod blossoming, London 1646, pp. 161-3
91. Among others, see Baillie, Satan and Errours
92. George Gillespie, Sermon 27 March 1644, London 1644
93. William Struther, A looking glasse for princes and people, Edinburgh 1632, p. 86
94. Rutherford, Free disputation, p. 24
95. William Perkins, The whole treatise of the cases of conscience, Cambridge 1606 (reprint, Amsterdam 1972), pp. 44-5
96. John Weemes, Containing an exposition of the morall law [Works, ii], London 1636, p. 7
97. William Wishart, An exposition of the Lords prayer, London 1633, p. 94
98. Rutherford is discussed in Conrad Russell, 'Arguments for Religious Unity in England, 1530-1650', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 18, 1967, p. 214
99. New College, Baillie Mss I, p. 63
100. Mullan, 'Uniformity', p. 261
101. see also [George Gillespie], A late dialogue betwixt a civilian and a divine, London 1644, pp. 31, 33
102. Rutherford, Due right, p. 355
103. Baillie, Errours, p. 24
104. See also George Gillespie, Wholsome severity reconciled with Christian liberty, London 1644, p. 19
105. George Gillespie, A treatise of miscellany questions, Edinburgh 1649, p. 167
106. Baillie, Anabaptism, b3r-v
107. Bouwsma, Calvin, pp. 88, 97
108. Roger Williams, The bloudy tenent, of persecution, for cause of conscience, in The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, New York 1963, Vol. 3, p. 111
109. John von Rohr, The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought, Atlanta 1986, pp. 139ff