The Scots Worthies (Howie)

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Howie, John

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627

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John Howie of Lochgoin, author of the classic work The Scots Worthies, lived all his days in relative obscurity in Ayrshire in the southwest of Scotland which, in earlier times, had been the scene of many notable events in the history of the Covenanters. Lacking the benefit of formal higher education, he was nevertheless well-read and deeply educated in the history of his Christian forebears. Conscious of the unfounded criticism and misrepresentation of them which had arisen even in the eighteenth century he devoted himself to compiling this fascinating volume of cameo pen-portraits. But his concern was more than historical. He recognized the power of Christian biography to instruct and inspire and to exemplify the outworking of the grace of God in human life. Howie’s chief aim was to write in such a way that readers would be encouraged to grasp the heroic, sacrificial, and glorious nature of life consecrated unreservedly to Christ.

Within the covers of a single volume John Howie’s The Scots Worthies offers stirring mini-biographies of the great roll-call of the Christian heroes of Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A unique work it includes all the figures described by John Dickson while himself a prisoner for Christ on the Bass Rock: ‘Innocent Hamilton, godly and patient Wishart, apostolic Knox, eloquent Rollock, worthy Davidson, courageous Melville, prophetic Welch, majestic Bruce, great Henderson, renowned Gillespie, learned Binning, pious Gray, laborious Durham, heavenly-minded Rutherford, the faithful Guthries, diligent Blair, heart-melting Livingstone, religious Welwood, orthodox and practical Brown, zealous and steadfast Cameron, honest-hearted Cargill, sympathizing M’Ward, persevering Blackader, the evangelical Traills, constant and pious Renwick’.

Table of Contents

	PREFACE BY THE EDITOR,	ix
	THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE,	xvi
	INTRODUCTION,	1
Names of the Worthies.
BAILLIE, ROBERT,	Kilwinning Church.	280
	Henry VII. Chapel.
BALFOUR, JOHN, OF KINLOCH,	Portrait of Claverhouse.	622
BINNING, HUGH,	Glasgow College.	207
	Glasgow College, Outer Quadrangle.
BLACK, DAVID,	Abbey Church of Holyrood.	80
BLACKADER, JOHN,	Monument at North Berwick.	521
BLAIR, ROBERT,	The College Kirk, Glasgow.	335

	Ripon Cathedral.
	Monument in Aberdour Churchyard.
BOYD, ROBERT,		139
	The Abbey Church of Paisley.
BROWN, JOHN,	Stadthouse, the Hague.	412
BRUCE, ROBERT,	Linlithgow Palace.	142
	Gateway of Linlithgow Palace.
BUCHANAN, GEORGE,		66
	Ruins of Crossraguel Abbey.
CALDERWOOD, DAVID,	Jedburgh Abbey.	201
	West Port, St Andrews.
CAMERON, RICHARD,	The Castle of Maybole.	421
	Monument at Airsmoss.
CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD, MARQUIS OF ARGYLE,		242
	Portrait of Alexander Leslie.
	The Maiden.
CAMPBELL, JOHN, EARL OF LOUDON,	Loudon Castle.	268
	York Minster.
	The Tower of London.
CARGILL, DONALD,	Glasgow Cathedral, East View.	439

CRAIG, JOHN,	Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots.	76
CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT,	Belfast Lough.	171
DAVIDSON, JOHN,	St Giles, Edinburgh, South View.	83
DICKSON, DAVID,		288
	King’s College, Aberdeen-Front View.
	Archbishop of Glasgow’s Palace.
DICKSON, JOHN,	Rutherglen Church.	590
DUNCAN, ANDREW,	Blackness Castle.	110
DURHAM, JAMES,	The Old Steeple, Dundee.	219
	Glasgow College, Inner Quadrangle.
	Portrait of Oliver Cromwell.
FLEMING, ROBERT,	Scots Church, Rotterdam.	572
	Stadthouse, Amsterdam.
GARNOCK, ROBERT,	Old View of Stirling Castle.	457
	Greyfriars Churchyard.
	Edinburgh Tolbooth-North Front.
GILLESPIE, GEORGE,	St Giles, Edinburgh, North View.	191
	Westminster Abbey.
GORDON, JOHN, VISCOUNT KENMUIR,	Portrait of Charles I.	153
	The Palace of Holyrood.
GORDON, WILLIAM, OF EARLSTOUN,	Battlefield of Drumclog.	403
GRAY, ANDREW,	Glasgow Cathedral-West View.	215
GUTHRIE, JAMES,		257
	The Churches of Stirling.
	Netherbow Port-West Front.
GUTHRIE, WILLIAM,	Portrait of General David Leslie.	320
	Brechin Cathedral.
HACKSTON, DAVID, OF RATHILLET,	Portrait of General Dalziel.	430
HALL, HENRY, OF HAUGHHEAD,	Old View of Berwick.	417
	Canongate Tolbooth.
HAMILTON, PATRICK,	St Salvator College, St Andrews.	11
	Ruins of the Cathedral, St Andrews.
HAMILTON, SIR ROBERT, OF PRESTON,	Preston Tower.	597
	Haddington Church.
HENDERSON, ALEXANDER,		180
	Church at Leuchars.
	Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh.
	Monument in Greyfriars Churchyard.
HOG, THOMAS,	St Duthach’s Church, Tain.	559
	Old Machar Cathedral, Aberdeen.
JOHNSTON, ARCHIBALD,	Portrait of the Earl of Traquair.	298
	Windsor Castle.
	Portrait of Andrew Cant.
	Durham Cathedral.
	Netherbow Port-East Front.
KER, ROBERT, OF KERSLAND,	The Tolbooth of Glasgow.	435
	Dumbarton Castle.
KIDD and KING, MESSRS,		409
KNOX, JOHN,		48
	John Knox in St Giles, Edinburgh.
	John Knox’s House, Edinburgh.
	Portrait, William Maitland.
LIVINGSTONE, JOHN,		367
	Portrait of Charles II.

MACBEAN, ANGUS,		555
M’CLELLAND, JOHN,		197
M’KAIL, HUGH,	Edinburgh Tolbooth-South Front.	354
	Cross of Edinburgh.
M’WARD, ROBERT,		476
MELVILLE, ANDREW,		91
	Courtyard of Falkland Palace.