CHAPTER 20 GREATNESS OF PROTESTANT ENGLAND
BOOK TWENTY-FOURTH PROTESTANTISM IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER 1 THE DARKNESS AND THE DAYBREAK
CHAPTER 2 SCOTLAND'S FIRST PREACHER AND MARTYR, PATRICK HAMILTON
CHAPTER 3 WISHART IS BURNED, AND KNOX COMES FORWARD
CHAPTER 4 KNOX'S CALL TO THE MINISTRY AND FIRST SERMON
CHAPTER 5 KNOX'S FINAL RETURN TO SCOTLAND
CHAPTER 6 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER 7 CONSTITUTION OF THE "KIRK" -- ARRIVAL OF MARY STUART
CHAPTER 8 KNOX'S INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN MARY
CHAPTER 9 TRIAL OF KNOX FOR TREASON
CHAPTER 10 THE LAST DAYS OF QUEEN MARY AND JOHN KNOX
CHAPTER 11 ANDREW MELVILLE -- THE TULCHAN BISHOPS
CHAPTER 12 BATTLES FOR PRESBYTERIANISM AND LIBERTY
CHAPTER 13 JAMES IN ENGLAND -- THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
CHAPTER 14 DEATH OF JAMES VI, AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER 15 CHARLES I AND ARCHBISHOP LAUD -- RELIGIOUS INNOVATIONS
CHAPTER 16 THE NATIONAL COVENANT AND ASSEMBLY OF 1638
CHAPTER 17 CIVIL WAR -- SOLEMN LEAGUE -- WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
CHAPTER 18 PARLIAMENT TRIUMPHS, AND THE KING IS BETRAYED
CHAPTER 19 RESTORATION OF CHARLES II, AND ST. BARTHOLOMEW DAY, 1662
CHAPTER 20 SCOTLAND -- MIDDLETON'S TYRANNY -- ACT RECISSORY
CHAPTER 21 ESTABLISHMENT OF PRELACY IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER 22 FOUR HUNDRED MINISTERS EJECTED
CHAPTER 23 BREACH OF THE "TRIPLE LEAGUE" AND WAR WITH HOLLAND
CHAPTER 24 THE POPISH PLOT, AND DEATH OF CHARLES II
CHAPTER 25 THE FIRST RISING OF THE SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIANS
CHAPTER 26 THE FIELD-PREACHING OR "CONVENTICLE"
CHAPTER 27 DRUMCLOG -- BOTHWELL BRIDGE -- THE "KILLING TIMES"
CHAPTER 28 JAMES II -- PROJECTS TO RESTORE POPERY
CHAPTER 29 A GREAT CRISIS IN ENGLAND AND CHRISTENDOM
CHAPTER 30 PROTESTANTISM MOUNTS THE THRONE OF GREAT BRITAIN
Preface
James A. Wylie: Earnest Contender for the Faith
by Tom Stewart
James Aitken Wylie was born in Scotland in 1808. "The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD" (Psalm 37:23). His collegiate preparation was at Marischal College, Aberdeen (a North Sea port city and industrial center of northeastern Scotland) and at St. Andrews (Fife, East Scotland). "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth" (Lamentations 3:27). Though we could find no account of his conversion, he entered the Original Seccession Divinity Hall, Edinburgh (Scotland, the land of John Knox) in 1827, and was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1831; hence, the name "Rev. J. A. Wylie" is affixed to most of his written works. "And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:15).
His disposition to use the pen as a mighty "Sword of the LORD" (Judges 7:18) is evidenced by his assumption of the sub-editorship of the Edinburgh "Witness" in 1846. "My tongue is the pen of a ready writer" (Psalm 45:1). In 1852, after joining the Free Church of Scotland -- which was only inaugurated in 1843 (Dr. Chalmers as moderator), insisting on the Crown Rights of King Jesus as the only Head and King of the Church -- Wylie edited their "Free Church Record" until 1860. "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1). The Protestant Institute appointed him Lecturer on Popery in 1860. He continued in this role until his death in 1890. "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5).
Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LL.D.) in 1856. "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ" (Philippians 3:8). His travels took him to many of the far-flung places, where the events of Protestant history transpired. "So,
