Download or read book A Brief Account of the Constitution of the Established Church of Scotland, and of the Questions Concerning Patronage and the Secession (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Moncreiff Wellwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Account of the Constitution of the Established Church of Scotland, and of the Questions Concerning Patronage and the Secession The statement and observations, to which the Editor has ventured to give the prefixed Title, originally formed part of an Appendix to An Account of the Life and Writings of John Erskine, D.D. Late one of the Ministers of Edin burgh, which was written and published by the Author in the year 1818. In the first design, he Seems chiefly to have intended to afford some useful information to those readers of the prin cipal work, to whom the peculiar' constitution, and practical government, of lithe Established church'of Scotland might be unknown, or whose acquaintance with them might be imperfect or incorrect. In the course of zexecu-ting fithis de sign, however, he had been gradually led to eh ter, more fully than he had at first contemplated, into some subjects of very great importance in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.