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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOHN DAVIDSON. John Davidson was born about the year 1549 at Dunfermline, where his parents were owners of property in houses and land. At Dunfermline ministered Mr. David Ferguson, one of the six original ministers of the Reformed Church, a man of fervent piety and an effective preacher. Attracted by Mr....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOHN DAVIDSON. John Davidson was born about the year 1549 at Dunfermline, where his parents were owners of property in houses and land. At Dunfermline ministered Mr. David Ferguson, one of the six original ministers of the Reformed Church, a man of fervent piety and an effective preacher. Attracted by Mr. Ferguson's ministry, Davidson, it is supposed, proceeded on his counsel to cultivate learning. He entered St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, in 1567 and after the usual curriculum obtained graduation. Appointed a. Regent of that College, he prosecuted in private the study of theology. Introduced to John Knox, he became an associate of that great Reformer, imbibing a portion of his undaunted enterprise and religious zeal. Knox encouraged dramatic representations in exposure of Romish error, and Davidson composed a play to gratify his tastes. In 1572 Mr. James Melville, in his Diary, writes thus: ? This yeir, in the monethe of July, Mr. Johne Davidsone, an of our Regents, maid a play at the mariage of Mr. Jhone Colvin, ( quhilk I saw playit in Mr. Knox presence; wherin according to Mr. Knox doctrine, the Castle of Edinbruche was besieged, takin, and the Captan, with an or twa with him, hangit in effigie. Charter of Mortification, by John Hamilton of Preston, dated igth November, 1615, in keeping of the Kirksession of Prestonpans. f Records of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews. J Autobiography and Diary of Mr. James Melville, edited by Robert Pitcairn, Edinburgh, 1842, 8vo., p. 27. This person, sometime a Presbyterian Minister, became an apostate by embracing the doctrines of the Church of Rome. Melville's Diary, p. 65. Davidson's next literary performance was a poem entitled, Ane brief Commendation of Vprichtness, in celebration of John Knox; it w...