A Discourse Representing the Sufficient Manifestation of the Will of God to his Church in all its several Periods and Dispensations.
Canaries (James)
Publication details: Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson,1684,
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'In addition to unpublished attacks on Roman Catholicism, in 1684 the ambitious convert proclaimed his renewed protestantism in A Discourse Representing the Sufficient Manifestation of the Will of God to his Church, a lengthy work dedicated to the chancellor, the earl of Perth. It perhaps helped him to obtain the parish of Selkirk, to which he was licensed in February 1685' (ODNB). The receipt and the authorisations for payment all relate to the manse in Selkirk. The payments are to servants or workmen ('for their work at the manse') whose endorsement in barely legible hands are in marked contrast to Canaries' own regular, elegant script.The Heir of Andrew Anderson was his widow, Agnes (see SBTI for her complicated career). Scarce: ESTC records 7 copies in Scotland, 2 in England, and 5 in the US.