A dispute against the English-Popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland : wherein not only our own arguments against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune, Burges, Sprint, Paybody, Andrewes, Saravia, Tilen, Spotswood, Lindsey, Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted
A 1637 polemical treatise by the Scottish Presbyterian minister George Gillespie, printed without a named publisher, arguing against English-style liturgical practices imposed on the Church of Scotland and answering named defenders of those rites. The pictures are four decorative woodcut initial letters “I”, not illustrations of the argument: three show a letter built from clustered flowers, fruit and leaves with a vertical stem, and one shows a letter framed by scrolling acanthus foliage. A designer could take from them the dense, cut-block border ornament of early seventeenth-century print.
