Excerpt from Sketches of Scottish Church History, Vol. 1: Embracing the Period From the Reformation to the Revolution Church, from its earliest development at the Reformation, with the varying fortunes of its progress, its revivals, its suffer ings, and its declensions - down to the aspect which it bears at the present day. No Church in Christendom, it is believed, affords so many incidents of stirring interest, or furnishes to readers of the present day so many lessons of paramount importance. 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.