"With the invasion of Cromwell's army there was an invasion also of Independency. With ... (the covenant breaking Cromwell--RB) a minister by the name of Lockyer came north to win Scotland from her errors in Church government. The divine was not so successful as the soldier. However he did his best. Wood was selected to reply, and his reply is of sterling worth. It is admirably clear. Evidently well-read in the great theologians of the past,-- knowing his subject thoroughly, and never for a moment letting the point in hand out of his sight or out of his grip, with a certain ring of power in his expressions,-- it seems to me that James Wood ranks among our ablest men" writes Walker (cited in Johnston, Treasury of the Scottish Covenant, p. 330).

Walker is known for his own compromises, so in answer to the final clause in Walker's statement we note: Notwithstanding Wood's later defection and covenant-breaking, when he became a leading Resolutioner and helped split the Church of Scotland (in opposition to the Protesters lead by Rutherford, Guthrie and others), this is an able and useful work in defense of Presbyterianism -- showing Independent church government to be idolatrous.

22 pages, very rare.