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The Life of Alexander Henderson

Posted in Alexander Henderson, Audio Resources, Church of Scotland on June 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Listen to Thomas M’Crie’s The Life of Alexander Henderson.

Robert Baillie, in a speech delivered before the General Assembly in 1647 upon the death of this great churchman, declared of his late friend, “That glorious soul of blessed memory, who now is crowned with the reward of all his labours for God and for us, I wish his remembrance may be fragrant among us, so long as free and pure Assemblies remain in this land, which we hope shall be to the coming of our Lord. You know he spent his strength, and wore out his days, he breathed out his life in the service of God and of his Church. This binds it on our back, as we would not prove ungrateful, to pay him his due. If the thoughts of others be conform to my inmost sense, in duty and reason, he ought to be accounted by us and posterity, the fairest ornament, after John Knox, of incomparable memory, that ever the Church of Scotland did enjoy.”

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In the nick of time

Posted in Alexander Henderson, Vox Patrum on April 9, 2023| 1 Comment »

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Second Reformation Galaxy to go: Henderson

Posted in Alexander Henderson, Audio Resources, Church of Scotland, Macleod, John (1872-1948), Puritans & Puritanism on April 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Have a listen to recorded sermons by the Second Reformation divine, the great architect of the Church of Scotland in that era, Alexander Henderson. More titles from this and other expanding shelves in my audio library here.

Principal John Macleod in his definitive work, Scottish Theology in Relation to Church History (1943), wrote the following:

“There are great times in which a crop of great men is raised up. In one sense all times are great by reason of the opportunities which they offer and the duties for which they call. Men in quiet times, however, live in an age that tells on the more stirring times ahead and their influence will contribute to the stir and bustle of those times when they come. The quiet times see the stream of life running a more smooth and less exciting course. They may be said to be the days of the average man or of the leading man that is distinctly small. The days of the Second Reformation were not of the tame an uneventful kind. They were days when things happened that are not forgotten and great men appeared on the field and had the chance to show their quality. The leader of the Church of Scotland in those days was not one of the creatures of the court exalted to dignified office above his brethren. There were such men with honours thrust upon them—yet not against their will—strutting their petty hour upon the stage. They were, however, but the puppets and tools of the royal policy. The leader who emerged when the call his work came was the minister of a quiet parish in Fife where he had almost as his next neighbor the Archbishop of St Andrews. The Archbishop was Spottiswoode, and the minister was Alexander Henderson.”

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