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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot  Good stuff, Jerrold! I have the Cripplegate Sermons and have been greatly blessed in reading them, but have been interested to learn more about the context and background. This is very helpful. Do you have any recommendations for further reading?
BTW, I saw reference made to the Synod of Lothian's quote and some discussion of that point in Thomas M'Crie's Lives of the Scottish Reformers, p. 236. I believe the date should be 1579 rather than 1779.  |
Glad it was of some help brother. You are correct that the date should be 1579, thanks, I'll make that correction.
As far as source material goes The First Book of Discipline is helpful no doubt, but I'm sure you are looking for something beyond that. If you look at McCrie in his life of Andrew Melville he gives some of the minutes for the exercise as an appendix.
The November 8, 1597 extract from the Presbytery of Edinburgh states, "It is ordained that Mr. Robert Rollock shall make a catalog of the young men whom he thinks merit to exercise".
I've gathered much of this through snippets of very old resources handed down to me by my mentor Rev. D. Beattie. Extracts from the Presbytery of Haddington, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and the like.
The Presbytery of Haddington reads in extract, "May 8, 1608. Mr. James Carmichael (younger) heard privilie exercises the second time upon Ephesians 6,12. The brethren prayest God for him, and appoyntit him to exercise privilie the next in the morning in the galrie, prosecuting the same text."
Most of this stuff needs to be collated. Something I'd like to do in the future, perhaps next time I go back to Scotland.