ROBERT

See also:

• BAILLIE, JOANNA (1762-1851)
• BAILLIE, LADY GRIZEL (1665-1746)
• ROBERT BAILLIE (1602-1662)
• BAILLIE, ROBERT (d. 1684)

BAILLIE (1602-1662)  , Scottish divine, was born at Glasgow . Having graduated there in 1620, he gave himself to the study of divinity . In 1631, after he had been ordained and had acted for some years as regent in the university, he was appointed to the living of Kilwinning in Ayrshire . In 1638 he was a member of the famous Glasgow Assembly, and soon after he accompanied Leslie and the Scottish army as chaplain or preacher . In 1642 he was made professor of divinity at Glasgow, and in the following year was selected as one of the five Scottish clergymen who were sent to the Westminster Assembly . In 1649 he 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 . He continued to take an active part in all the minor disputes of the church, and in 1661 was made principal of Glasgow University . He died in August of the following year, his death being probably hastened by his mortification at the apparently firm establishment of episcopacy in Scotland . Baillie was a man of learning and ability; his views were not extreme, and he played but a secondary part in the stirring events of the time . His Letters, by which he is now chiefly remembered, are of first-rate historical importance, and give a very lively picture of the period . A complete memoir and a full notice of all his writings will be found in D . Laing's edition of the Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie (1637–1662), Bannatyne Club, 3 vols .

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Edinburgh, 1841-1842) . Among his works are Ladensium a(roearlucp oLT, an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor, an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters with Jesuitry; Ana-baptism, the true Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, &c., a sermon; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland ; The Life of William (Laud) now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Examined (London, 1643) ; A Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, the Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals (London, 1661) .