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BAILLIE, ROBERT (1602-1662)

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BAILLIE, See also:ROBERT (1602-1662) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow. Having graduated there in 1620, he gave himself to the study of divinity. In 1631, after he had been ordained and had acted for some years as See also:regent in the university, he was appointed to the living of See also:Kilwinning in See also:Ayrshire. In 1638 he was a member of the famous Glasgow See also:Assembly, and soon after he accompanied See also:Leslie and the Scottish See also:army as See also:chaplain or preacher. In 1642 he was made See also:professor of divinity at Glasgow, and in the following See also:year was selected as one of the five Scottish clergymen who were sent to the See also:Westminster Assembly. In 1649 he was one of the commissioners sent to See also:Holland for the purpose of inviting See also:Charles II. to See also:Scotland, and of settling the terms of his See also:admission to the See also:government. He continued to take an active See also:part in all the See also:minor disputes of the See also:church, and in 1661 was made See also:principal of Glasgow University. He died in See also:August of the following year, his See also:death being probably hastened by his See also:mortification at the apparently See also:firm See also:establishment of See also:episcopacy in Scotland. Baillie was a See also:man of learning and ability; his views were not extreme, and he played but a secondary part in the stirring events of the See also:time. His Letters, by which he is now chiefly remembered, are of first-See also:rate See also:historical importance, and give a very lively picture of the See also:period. A See also:complete memoir and a full See also:notice of all his writings will be found in D. See also:Laing's edition of the Letters and See also:Journals of Robert Baillie (1637–1662), See also:Bannatyne See also:Club, 3 vols.

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Edinburgh, 1841-1842). Among his See also:works are Ladensium a(roearlucp oLT, an See also:answer to See also:Lysimachus See also:Nicanor, an attack on See also:Laud and his See also:system, in reply to a publication which charged the See also:Covenanters with Jesuitry; See also:Ana-See also:baptism, the true See also:Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, See also:Antinomy, Familisme, &c., a See also:sermon; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland ; The See also:Life of See also:William (Laud) now See also:Lord See also:Archbishop of See also:Canterbury Examined (See also:London, 1643) ; A Parallel of the See also:Liturgy with the See also:Mass See also:Book, the See also:Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals (London, 1661).

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