The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland

Synopsis

The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.

The printing of this, the earliest Record of the Reformed Church in Scotland, has now reached a period in the history of that Church, which renders it fitting that this impression should be accompanied with a more precise statement than has yet been given of its character and its fate.

For many years past, Dr Lee, Principal Clerk of the General Assembly, made strenuous, but ineffectual, exertions, to recover for the Church, the original Record of the period extending from 1560 to 1616. That Record, which is known to historians by the title of the “Booke of the Universall Kirk,” had been surreptitiously purloined, and found its way into the hands of the Trustees of Sion College, in London; and although hopes were latterly entertained that their restoration to the Church might be effected, these hopes are now at an end. 

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