LECTURES

ON

FOREIGN CHURCHES.

DELIVERED IN

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW, MAY 1845,

IN CONNECTION WITH THE OBJECTS OF THE

COMMITTEE OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

ON THE STATE OF

CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ON THE CONTINENT

AND IN THE EAST.

FIRST SERIES.

EDINBURGH:

W. P. KENNEDY, ST ANDREW STREET.

GLASGOW: D. BRYCE. BELFAST: W. M'COMB.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS & CO., AND JAMES NISBET & Co.

MDCCCXLV.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY JOHN GREIG, LAWNMARKET.

CONTENTS.

I. INTRODUCTORY-" The Relations in which the Churches of

Christ ought to stand to each other-Principles of Union,

and Mutual Duties." By ROBERT S. CANDLISH, D.D.,

Minister of Free St George's, Edinburgh,

II. THE INDEPENDENT EASTERN CHURCHES.

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By JOHN

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WILSON, D.D., F. R. S., of the Free Church of Scotland's

Mission at Bombay,

III. THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH.

By Rev. THOMAS M'CRIE, Professor of Theology to the

Synod of Original Seceders,

IV. ON THE PRESENT CONDITION AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

OF THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH. By the Rev. ROBERT

W. STEWART, A.M., late of Erskine,

V. RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM SINCE

THE REFORMATION. BY WILLIAM K. TWEEDIE, Mi-

nister of Free Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh,

VI. PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF EVANGELICAL RELIGION

IN SWITZERLAND, ESPECIALLY GENEVA. By PA-

TRICK M'FARLAN, D.D., Minister of the Free West

Church, Greenock,

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VII. THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF EVANGELICAL RE-

LIGION IN FRANCE. By J. G. LORIMER, Minister of

Free St David's, Glasgow,

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LECTURES

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FOREIGN CHURCHES.