Scottish divines 1505-1872 . k with lofty pity onPresbyterian ministers, who, in their eyes, are notministers at all; while Romanists may from theirhoary antiquity scornfully ignore the orders of bothalike as spurious, and point to their own unbrokenline of spiritual descent. But all such revilings arca miserable casting of lots for the raiment of Christ ;His spirit may truly exist in them all, after thedisputants have had their shares of the parts thatfit them best. In the heat of controversy the abstractPresbyterian or Episcopalian may push aside asundivine and unholy, the peculiar developme
Scottish divines 1505-1872 . k with lofty pity onPresbyterian ministers, who, in their eyes, are notministers at all; while Romanists may from theirhoary antiquity scornfully ignore the orders of bothalike as spurious, and point to their own unbrokenline of spiritual descent. But all such revilings arca miserable casting of lots for the raiment of Christ ;His spirit may truly exist in them all, after thedisputants have had their shares of the parts thatfit them best. In the heat of controversy the abstractPresbyterian or Episcopalian may push aside asundivine and unholy, the peculiar developments andspiritual orders of churches in different socialand national necessities, and be blind to the advan-tages of his opponents system; but the day issurely come when we should discern in ecclesiasticaldiversities, which are the result of natural causes,as true a divinity of order as obtained in theApostolic Church, itself a product of the times asmuch as a gift from God. ^t, dalles Itettures THIRD SERIES-SCOTTISH LECTURE RUTHERFORD. By the Rev. PEARSON MADAM MuiR. Minister of the Parish ofMorningside. -THE first half of the seventeenth century was one1 of the most exciting periods in the history of the<;rottish Church. Then took place some of thoseev^e^is wlch, for good or for evil. ha., affected herfortunes ever since. Then were mtroduced mto hergoien^ent and her worship, some of those practicellTch have come to be popularly -garded as coe^a^at least with the Reformation, if not with Chnstianuytaelf It was the period of the restoration ofEo copacy of the National Covenant, of the re-SSn of Presbytery, of the Solemn League ^.dCovenant of the Westminster Assembly, of theSr by Cromwell, of the strife t^tween hePpc;nlutioners and the Protesters. This was mcSod-h the lot of Samuel Rutherford was 74 Sa^niiel Rzttherford, cast; these were events in nearly all of which, asfriend or as foe, he was more or less deeply involved. Rutherford does not indeed stand
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