Excerpt from The Pastor and the Prelate: Or Reformation and Conformity David calderwood was born in the year 1575. Of his birth-place, parentage, and early life, we have no means of correctly ascertaining. It has been stated that he was by birth a gentleman, which, indeed, is very probable, as few, except those in the higher ranks of life, received so liberal an education as Calderwood appears to have possessed. De ing early destined for the church, he was sent to the univer sity of Edinburgh to be educated for that end, where he ap plied himself with great assiduity and attention to the study of Theology, critical and practical, and devoted much of his time to the investigation of Ecclesiastical History. Being possessed of talents of a very high order, he took his degree of A. M. So early as 1593, and in 1604 he was appointed to a church in Crailing, near Jedburgh, where, by his virtues, public and private, and his faithfulness to his office, he gained the esteem and respect of all who knew him. 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.