OF THE

BRITISH CHURCHES

IN

ENGLAND,

SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND AMERICA;

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY SKETCH

OF THE

History of the Waldenses,

AND

AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SECESSION.

BY JOHN BROWN,

LATE PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY UNDER THE ASSOCIATE SYNOD,

AND MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, HADDINGTON.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY THE REV. THOMAS BROWN.

"Walk about Zion,-tell the towers thereof, mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following."

Psalm xlviii. 12, 13.

FOR LIBR

VEW-YORS

VOL. II.

A NEW EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR MACLACHLAN & STEWART; AND

BALDWIN, CRADOCK & JOY, LONDON.

1823.

YRAGGLI

A

COMPENDIOUS HISTORY

OF THE

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT

OF THE

MOST MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS SINCE THE INTRODUCTION

OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE PRESENT TIME.

TOGETHER WITH

A HISTORY OF THE

Rise and Progress of the Secession.

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