Set opposed to the history of post-revolution Scottish ecclesiastical politics, this booklet addresses the hitherto mostly overlooked spiritual size to the debates on Anglo-Scottish Union. Focusing predominantly at the interval among April 1706 and January 1707, the booklet examines the attitudes and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty and demanding situations a number of the commonly held assumptions concerning the position of the church and different teams throughout the debate. the focus of the Kirk's reaction used to be the fee of the overall meeting. during the wide use of church documents and different basic assets the paintings of the fee in pursuit of church defense via its debates, committees and addresses, is mentioned at size. The e-book additionally examines the church and teams just like the Cameronians and Hebronites with regards to the parliamentary debate, the pursuit of possible choices to incorporation, well known protest, addressing and armed resistance.
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