Contains the following works by George Gillespie:

• "A Dispute Against English Popish Ceremonies, 1637"
• "111 Propositions Concerning the Ministry and Government of the Church, 1644"
• two of Gillespie's sermons, preached before the House of Common (1644), and the House of Lords (1645)
• George Gillespie's answers to Coleman which defends Presbyterian polity against Erastianism

The table of contents from George Gillespie's Dispute Against The English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded On The Church Of Scotland follows:

• Dedication
• Author's Preface
• Prologue.

Order.

The First Part. Against The Necessity Of The Ceremonies.

• Chapter I. That Our Opposites Do Urge The Ceremonies As Things Necessary
• Chapter II. The Reason Taken Out Of Acts XV. To Prove The Necessity Of The Ceremonies, Because Of The Church's Appointment, Confuted
• Chapter III. That The Ceremonies Thus Imposed And Urged As Things Necessary, Do Bereave Us Of Our Christian Liberty, First, Because Our Practice Is Adstricted
• Chapter IV. That The Ceremonies Take Away Our Christian Liberty Proved By A Second Reason, Namely, Because Conscience Itself Is Bound And Adstricted
• Chapter V. That The Ceremonies Take Away Christian Liberty, Proved By A Third Reason, Viz., Because They Are Urged Upon Such As, In Their Consciences, Do Condemn Them
• Chapter VI. That The Ceremonies Take Away Christian Liberty Proved By A Fourth Reason, Viz., Because They Are Pressed Upon Us By Naked Will And Authority, Without Giving Any Reason To Satisfy Our Consciences
• Chapter VII. That Festival Days Take Away Our Liberty, Which God Hath Given Us, Proved; And First Out Of The Law
• Chapter VIII. That Festival Days Take Away Our Christian Liberty, Proved Out Of The Gospel
• Chapter IX. Showing The Weakness Of Some Pretences Which Our Opposites Use For Holidays

The Second Part. Against The Expediency Of The Ceremonies.

• Chapter I. Against Some Of Our Opposites, Who Acknowledge The Inconveniency Of The Ceremonies, And Yet Would Have Us Yield To Them
• Chapter II. Against Those Of Our Opposites Who Plead For The Ceremonies As Things Expedient
• Chapter III. That The Ceremonies Are Inexpedient, Because They Are Preparatives For Greater Evils
• Chapter IV. That The Ceremonies Are Inexpedient, Because They Hinder Edification
• Chapter V. That The Ceremonies Are Inexpedient, Because They Are Occasions Of Injury And Cruelty
• Chapter VI. That The Ceremonies Are Inexpedient, Because They Harden And Confirm The Papists
• Chapter VII. That The Ceremonies Are Inexpedient, Because They Disturb The Peace Of The Church
• Chapter VIII. That The Inexpediency Of The Ceremonies, In Respect Of The Scandal Of The Weak, May Be Plainly Perceived. Twelve Propositions Touching Scandal Are Premitted
• Chapter IX. All The Defences Of The Ceremonies, Used To Justify Them Against The Scandal Imputed To Them, Are Confuted

The Third Part. Against The Lawfulness Of The Ceremonies.

• Chapter I. That The Ceremonies Are Unlawful, Because Superstitious, Which Is Particularly Instanced In Holidays, And Ministering The Sacraments In Private Places
• Chapter II. That The Ceremonies Are Unlawful Because They Are Monuments Of By-Past Idolatry, Which Not Being Necessary To Be Retained, Should Be Utterly Abolished, Because Of Their Idolatrous Abuses: All Which Is Particularly Made Good Of Kneeling
• Chapter III. That The Ceremonies Are Unlawful, Because They Sort Us With Idolaters, Being The Badges Of Present Idolatry Among The Papists
• Chapter IV. That The Ceremonies Are Idols Among The Formalists Themselves; And That Kneeling In The Lord's Supper Before The Bread And Wine, In The Act Of Receiving Them, Is Formally Idolatry
• Chapter V. The Fifth Argument Against The Lawfulness Of The Ceremonies Taken From The Mystical And Significant Nature Of Them
• Chapter VI. That The Lawfulness Of The Ceremonies Is Falsely Grounded Upon The Holy Scripture; Where Such Places As Are Alleged By Our Opposites, Either For All The Ceremonies In General, Or For Any One Of Them In Particular, Are Vindicated From Them
• Chapter VII. That The Lawfulness Of The Ceremonies Cannot Be Warranted By Any Ecclesiastical Law, Nor By Any Power Which The Church Hath To Put Order To Things Belonging To Divine Worship
• Chapter VIII. That The Lawfulness Of The Ceremonies Cannot Be Warranted By Any Ordinance Of The Civil Magistrate; Whose Power In Things Spiritual Or Ecclesiastical Is Explained
  • Digression I. Of The Vocation Of Men Of Ecclesiastical Order
  • Digression II. Of The Convocation And Moderation Of Synods
  • Digression III. Of The Judging Of Controversies And Questions Of Faith
  • Digression IV. Of The Power Of The Keys, And Ecclesiastical Censures

• Chapter IX. That The Lawfulness Of The Ceremonies Cannot Be Warranted By The Law Of Nature.

The Fourth Part. Against The Indifferency Of The Ceremonies.

• Chapter I. Of Our Opposites' Pleading For The Indifferency Of The Ceremonies
• Chapter II. Of The Nature Of Things Indifferent
• Chapter III. Whether There Be Anything Indifferent In Actu Exercito
• Chapter IV. Of The Rule By Which We Are To Measure And Try What Things Are Indifferent
• Chapter V. The First Position Which We Build Upon The Ground Confirmed In The Former Chapter
• Chapter VI. Another Position Built Upon The Same Ground
• Chapter VII. Other Positions Built Upon The Former Ground
• Chapter VIII. That The Ceremonies Are Not Things Indifferent To The Church Of Scotland; Because She Did Abjure And Repudiate Them By A Most Solemn And General Oath
• Chapter IX. A Recapitulation Of Sundry Other Reasons Against The Indifferency Of The Ceremonies