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The Cologne Reformation and the Church of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

James K. Cameron
James K. Cameron
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Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of St. Andrews
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The apparent suddenness of the reformation in Scotland has sometimes been considered difficult to understand, but more difficul has been the abandonment, seemingly at the eleventh hour, of the old Church by some of those who held key positions in it. The desertion to die reform movement of John Wynram, sub-prior of the St. Andrews Augustinians and dean of die Faculty of Divinity, has recendy called forth this caustic comment from Dr McRoberts, ‘One would very much like to know what religious convictions he really held, if any’. In a footnote McRoberts adds ‘He is reminiscent of his contemporary, Hermann von Wied, archbishop of Cologne, who was described by the Emperor Charles V as “neither a Protestant nor a Catholic but a proper headien’”. The linking of Wynram's name widi rfiat of the archbishop elector, as we shall see, is not widiout foundation, although not necessarily on account of the judgments of the emperor or the monseigneur. No doubt similar comments could be passed on John Douglas, principal of St. Mary's College and rector of die University, who shared widi Wynram, Knox, and odiers in drawing up in 1560 die Scots Confession and the First Book of Discipline.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 39 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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30 The Consultation (fol. clxxxxr)states: ‘The pastors shall warn moreover that it is no small abuse of this sacrament that it is wont to be set forth and carried about to be gazed upon and to be worshipped with gold and silver, and other such carnal ornaments, and that with this opinion, as though this carrying about and showing forth and outward worshiping of the Sacrament were able to turn away all incommodities and bring all felicity, though men do not once think of true repentance of sins and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefor we will in any wise diat the pastors hereafter set not forth nor carry about the sacrament’. Cf. Book of Discipline, 204: ‘What was the opinion of die most par t of men of the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood during die darkness of superstition, is not unknown. How it was gazed upon kneeled unto, borne in procession and finally worshiped and honoured as ChristJesus himself.

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