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Book Description<\/h2>\n

The sixty stormy years following the death of John Knox\u2014years of conflict, persecution and revival\u2014 form the background of this biography by D. C. Macnicol.<\/p>\n

Robert Bruce\u2019s commanding preaching, his iron resolution and, above all, his daily fellowship with God, provided an example which his contemporaries and successors could never forget. \u2018No man\u2019, declared John Livingstone, \u2018since the apostles\u2019 time spake with such power\u2019.<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\nIntroduction to the 1960 Edition<\/td>\nix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPreface<\/td>\nxv<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nKinsfolk and Connections of Bruce<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nThe Last Night of August, the Year of God 1581<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nA Student of Theology at New College<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nBruce’s Response to a Call from Edinburgh<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nA Great Ministry in the Kirk of St. Giles<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nWorthy of a Quarter of the Kingdom<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nConflicts between the Kirk and the King<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nThe Sacrament of the Supper at St. Giles<\/td>\n79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nThe Seventeenth of December 1596<\/td>\n93<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nDomestic and Pastoral Life of Master Robert Bruce<\/td>\n105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nThe Needle that Drew in the Episcopal Thread<\/td>\n117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nThe Matter of Gowrie<\/td>\n131<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nFriends of Bruce at the Court and in the Church<\/td>\n143<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nConcerning the Character of Robert Bruce<\/td>\n157<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nThe First Exile to Inverness<\/td>\n169<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nA Second Exile in Bruce’s Old Age<\/td>\n181<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nA Budget of Old Letters<\/td>\n193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nChrist Is in Life and Death an Advantage<\/td>\n213<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nSeeing Visions and Dreaming Dreams<\/td>\n227<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nThirty Sermons of Bruce Recently Discovered<\/td>\n237<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAppendix<\/td>\n261<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBiographical Note Added by the Publishers<\/td>\n263<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIndex<\/td>\n265<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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