The church was now divided into "resolutioners" and "protesters". The assembly met by adjournment at Dundee (22 July), when a protestation against the action of the commission was read, those who had signed it absenting themselves, as from an unlawful assembly. Andrews (16 July) by John Menzies, divinity professor in the Marischal College, Aberdeen, Guthrie strongly supported him. The attack on the resolution was led at the next meeting of the General Assembly at St. Summoned (19 February and 28 February) to Perth by the Committee of Estates to answer to the king for their conduct, they appeared, but, while acknowledging the king's civil authority, protested against his ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and declined to submit to what they called "a heighe prowoking the eiyes of the Lord's glorie". Guthrie and his colleague, David Bennett, preached against this resolution. The same meeting of commission which ordered Middleton's excommunication had passed a unanimous resolution authorising the acceptance of the military services of all but "obstinate" enemies of the covenant. At the next meeting of the commission (2 January 1651) Middleton was loosed from the sentence after public penance. Guthrie was appointed to pronounce the sentence next Sunday, and, despite a letter from the assembly bidding him delay the act, carried out the original order. On 17 October Guthrie, by the "Western Remonstrance", withdrew from the royalist cause on 14 December he sent a letter to the general assembly at Perth denouncing Middleton as an enemy of the Covenant, and proposing his excommunication. Middleton, who joined Charles II immediately on his landing on 23 June, took the lead in a project for a royalist army in the north. In 1650 Guthrie treated General John Middleton with a high-handedness which sealed his own fate. In November he was translated to Stirling (first charge) where he remained for ten years. He preached on 13 July before the parliamentary commission for the visitation of Edinburgh University. Next month a movement was made for his removal to Edinburgh. He preached before the Scottish Parliament on 10 January 1649, and on 16 January before the parliamentary commission for the visitation of the University of St. In 1646 he was one of seven commissioners appointed by the Committee of Estates to wait on Charles I at Newcastle-on-Tyne with a letter from the general assembly. He was a member of the General Assembly from 1644 to 1651 in the first year he received (15 May) £15 towards the expenses of his attendance from the Kirk session of Stow, Midlothian. In 1642 he was ordained minister of Lauder, Berwickshire, and soon distinguished himself in the cause of the National Covenant. Andrews, and under his influence Guthrie became a Presbyterian. In January 1639 Samuel Rutherford was made divinity professor at St. Yet on 16 December 1638 the strongly antiprelatic assembly at Glasgow put him in the list of those ready for ecclesiastical vacancies. Andrews, where he graduated M.A., and became one of the regents, distinguished for his lectures on philosophy.Īt this time Guthrie was an episcopalian, and is said to have been zealous for prelacy and the ceremonies. Guthrie, the eldest son of the laird of Guthrie, Forfarshire, was born about 1612.
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