Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... This is not the first time that these views have been promulgated. They have been repeatedly put forth by a party within the English Church in seasons of apprehended danger; but never without frustrating their object, and entailing calamities on the country. In the reign of Charles I., they were put forth by Laud, a man “virtuous, if severity of manners alone, and abstinence from pleasure could deserve that name; learned, if polemical knowledge could entitle him to that praise; and disinterested, but with unceasing industry he studied to exalt the priestly and prelatical character, which was his own;” [David Hume] but instead of averting, they increased the dangers of the Church, and were followed in quick succession by the abolition of Episcopacy in Scotland, the impeachment of the bishops in England, the execution of Laud, the bloody death of the king, and the Protectorate of Cromwell. ...
For more, see James Buchanan on the Scottish Establishment, the Oxford Movement, and Laudianism.
For more, see James Buchanan on the Scottish Establishment, the Oxford Movement, and Laudianism.
