Robert Baillie was a Church of Scotland minister who became famous as an author and a propagandist for the Covenanters.
13 Facts About Robert Baillie
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In Baillie's engagement with the theological and liturgical controversies of the mid-Seventeenth Century, Baillie sought to reconcile his strong belief in maintaining Kirk unity with a firm adherence to a Christian doctrine dictated by the divine 'truth' revealed in Scripture.
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Robert Baillie was conscientious in ensuring that copies were made of his outgoing correspondence and other documents with a view to creating a body of evidence which could be used to prepare a historical account of the Covenanters.
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Robert Baillie was born in the Saltmarket, Glasgow, the eldest son of James Robert Baillie, a merchant and burgess of Glasgow, and his wife, Helen Gibson.
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Robert Baillie was licensed by Archbishop James Law and became a regent of Philosophy in the University, and tutor to the son of Alexander Montgomery, 6th Earl of Eglinton.
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In 1649, Robert Baillie was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting Charles II to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government.
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Robert Baillie continued to take an interest in religious controversies during the Interregnum, but was not active politically.
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Robert Baillie accepted the liturgical changes introduced by James VI's Articles of Perth, even elaborating an exhaustive defence of kneeling at communion in protracted correspondence with David Dickson, the minister for the parish of Irvine.
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Robert Baillie's ecclesiology saw the church as an ecclesia mixta, comprising both reprobate and elect.
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Robert Baillie rejected the Protestors' more exclusive vision of a church of visible saints in which membership should be restricted to godly "true" believers.
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Robert Baillie's concern was to maintain church unity and combat the threat posed by sectarians.
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Accordingly, during the 1650s Robert Baillie immersed himself in his teaching at the University of Glasgow and writing treatises on Hebrew and biblical chronology.
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In correspondence with William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn, John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale and James Sharp after the Restoration, Robert Baillie made it clear that he thought the episcopal settlement Charles II imposed on Scotland was a mistake, but he did not oppose the return of bishops publicly.