Excerpt from History of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: The Revolution to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, (1689-1748) With the political, social, and warlike incidents in which this march of national progress is developed, a chapter in the history of religion is entwined. A church which had been associated with despotic influence was overthrown. Among its opponents of different Shades of thought and character, skilful men constructed an ecclesiastical polity which they held to be moderately in conformity with the desires of the people. But, in its very construction, they sowed within it the seeds of future dispute and rupture, which, growing to maturity side by side with the political disputes, served for a time to deepen their intricacy while instead of arriving, with these secu lar contests, at a satisfactory conclusion, they resolved themselves into those enduring ecclesiastical divisions of Opinion, which, arising in a new form, have caused so much interest and excitement even in the present day. Such is the general tenor of the events of which the fol lowing pages profess to furnish a circumstantial narrative. 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.