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An Historical Sketch of the Protestant Church of France, With Parallel Notices of the Church of Scotland
An Historical Sketch of the Protestant Church of France With Parallel Notices of the Church of Scotland Author:John Gordon Lorimer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: NOTICES OF THE CONTEMPORANEOUS HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The reader may be disposed to ask, what is the connection between the Church of France and the Church of Scotland, that I should propose to give " Contemporaneous Notices " of the latter, in a work devoted to the history of the former. I answer, that besides the diversity of God's dispensations towards two Protestant and Presbyterian Churches, which will become apparent on the comparison of their history, and which may suggest important reflections, there was, especially in early times, a great degree of intercourse between Scotland and France, which renders a little blending of their histories desirable, and almost essential to a just historical view of either. It may not be generally known, but it is an interesting fact, that from a very early period in Scottish history, long prior to the Reformation, the names of various Scotsmen are to be found among the Professors in the Continental Universities. Whether from the poverty of the soil, or, what is more probable, the superior mind of her people, Scotland even then gave indication of the same diffusiveness as regards her children, for which she has been so remarkable in after ages. Thus, a Dr Elphinston was Professor of Laws in the University of Paris, in 1471, and afterwards at Orleans. He was a native of Scotland; and after remaining abroad for nine years, returned and obtained an oppointment in the Popish Church of Glasgow. He is looked up to as an early promoter of commerce in that city. At the period of the Reformation, it was common for the more intelligent Scottish gentry to sen...« less