Editing Hugh Binning (section)

==Works==
[[File:Blaeu.Atlas.of.Scotland.1654.Renfrew.Govan.jpg|center|thumb|600 px|Govan in Binning's time. A part of Blaeu's 1654 map of Scotland. Modern Govan is at the site labeled ''Mekle Gouan'' ("Big Govan"). The small town of [[Glasgow]] is on the north bank of the Clyde, across from ''Litle Gouan'' ("Little Govan"). ]]
All of the works of Hugh Binning were published posthumously and were primarily collections of his sermons.  Of his speaking style, it was said: "There is originality without any affectation, a rich imagination, without anything fanciful or extravert, the utmost simplicity, without an thing mean or trifling."  <ref>
{{cite book|title=The Religious Magazine; Or, Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews|date=July 1829 – June 1830|publisher=E Littell, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Clark & Raser, Printers, 33 Carter’s Alley, Volume=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b0gZAQAAIAAJ|page=168}}</ref>
*''The Common Principles of the Christian Religion, Clearly Proved, and Singularly Improved; or, A Practical Catechism'' published by [[Patrick Gillespie (minister)|Patrick Gillespie]] in 1660 <ref>{{cite book|title=The Common Principles of the Christian Religion, Clearly Proved, and Singularly Improved; or, A Practical Catechism|orig-year=1660|year=2011
|publisher=Solus Christus|others=originally published by [[Patrick Gillespie (minister)|Patrick Gillespie]]|isbn=978-0986959806|first=Hugh|last=Binning}}</ref> An analysis of the [[Westminster Confession of Faith]]. The work was translated into Dutch in 1678 by James Koelman, a minister of Sluys in Flanders.{{sfn|Johnston|1887|p=327}}

([https://web.archive.org/web/20131106025837/http://www.covenanter.org/HBinning/commonprinciples/commonprinciples.html The Common Principles of the Christian Religion], fulltext) Quotations from the publication include: 
::''On the love of God''
:::And what is love but the very motion of the soul to God? And so till it have attained that, to be in him, it can find no place of rest.<ref name="kindle-works">
{{cite book|last=Binning|first=Hugh|date=24 March 2011|title=The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning |orig-year=1743|editor1=The Rev. M. Leishman |edition=Kindle |at=Kindle Locations 2103–2104}}</ref> 
::''On the free grace of the Gospel''
:::I am guilty, and can say nothing against it, while I stand alone. But though I cannot satisfy, and have not; yet there is one, Jesus Christ, who gave his life a ransom for many, and whom God hath given as a propitiation for sins. He hath satisfied and paid the debt in my name; go and apprehend the cautioner, since he hath undertaken it, nay, he hath done it, and is absolved.<ref name="kindle-works2">Kindle Locations 2597-2600</ref>
::''On Learning'' 
:::Be not ignorant as beasts, that know no other things than to follow the drove; quæ pergunt, non quo eundum est, sed quo itur; ''they follow not whither they ought to go, but whither most go''. You are men, and have reasonable souls within you; therefore I beseech you, be not composed and fashioned according to custom and example, that is, brutish, but according to some inward knowledge and reason. Retire once from the multitude, and ask in earnest at God, What is the way? Him that fears him he will teach the way that he should choose. The way to his blessed end is very strait, very difficult; you must have a guide in it,—you must have a lamp and a light in it,—else you cannot but go wrong.<ref name="kindle-works3">Kindle Locations 1446-1451</ref>
*''Sinner's Sanctuary, being forty Sermons upon the eighth Chapter of the Epistle of the Romans, from the First Verse down to the Eighteenth.'' a treatise originally published in 1670 {{sfn|Johnston|1887|p=327}}
*''Fellowship with God, being Twenty Eight Sermons on the First Epistle of John, Chap. 1st and Chap. 2nd, Verses 1, 2, 3.'' a treatise originally published in 1671 by "A.S. who in the preferace to the reader, styles himself, his servant in the gosple of our dearest Lord and Savior" {{sfn|Johnston|1887|p=328}}
*''Heart Humiliation or Miscellany Sermons, preached upon some choice texts at several solemn occasions.'' originally published in 1676 by the same A.S. that published the treatice "Fellowship with God".  The first of the sermons was preached July 1650 {{sfn|Johnston|1887|p=328}}
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212853/http://www.covenanter.org/HBinning/binningucc.html An Useful Case of Conscience], Learnedly and Accurately Discussed and Resolved, Concerning Associations and Confederacies with Idolaters, Infidels, Heretics, Malignants or any other Known Enemies of Truth and Godliness. ''  The treatise was used by the [[Covenanters]] and seems to have been originally published in Holland in 1693.  There is a reference to the treatise at a "general meeting of Society people&nbsp;... at Edinburgh 28 May 1683." The treatise expressed the opinion that Scotland should not support Charles I without some restraint placed on relatively absolute royal power and without assurance the Presbyterian religion could be maintained.<ref name="Works of Hugh Binning">{{cite book
|title=The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning|first=Hugh|last=Binning|publisher=Forgotten Books|orig-year=1743|date=17 August 2012|asin=B00962L2WS}}</ref> The documents seem to have been presented to the Society either by Hugh Binning's son, John, or his widow, Barbara Gordon (who remarried about 1657 to James Gordon; he was born in Ireland and became a minister at Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.)  ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212853/http://www.covenanter.org/HBinning/binningucc.html An Useful Case of Conscience], fulltext). In the treatise Binning writes:
::Where God hath given us liberty by the law of nature, or his word, no king can justly tie us, and when God binds and obliges us by any of these, no king or parliament can loose or untie us.<ref name="kindle-works4">Binning, Hugh; Kindle Locations 15527-15528</ref>
*''A Treatise of Christian Love'' a sermon based on John 13:35, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” and 1 Corinthians 13. Binning explores the concept that as a believer in Christ, there is a need for Christians to show by their love for one another.<ref>
{{cite book|title=Treatise of Christian Love|publisher=Puritan, Paperback Edition: Banner of Truth|date=1 May 2004|editor1=Robert Woodwrow |orig-year=1743|isbn=0851518702|first=Hugh|last=Binning}}</ref> ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212726/http://www.covenanter.org/HBinning/binninglove.html A Treatise of Christian Love], fulltext) Binning argues: 
::But Christ’s last words persuade this, that unity in affection is more essential and fundamental. This is the badge he left to his disciples. If we cast away this upon every different apprehension of mind, we disown our Master, and disclaim his token and badge.<ref name="kindle-works5">Binning, Hugh; Kindle Locations 16396-16398</ref>
::''On Charity''
:::Charity "thinketh no evil." [1 Cor. 13:5] Charity is apt to take all things in the best sense. If a thing may be subject to diverse acceptations, it can put the best construction on it. It is so benign and good in its own nature that it is not inclinable to suspect others. It desires to condemn no man, but would gladly, as far as reason and conscience will permit, absolve every man. It is so far from desire of revenge, that it is not provoked or troubled with an injury. For that were nothing else but to wrong itself because others have wronged it already, and it is so far from wronging others, that it will not willingly so much as think evil of them. Yet if need requires, charity can execute justice, and inflict chastisement, not out of desire of another’s misery, but out of love and compassion to mankind. Charitas non punit quia peccatum est, sed ne peccaretur, ''it looks more to prevention of future sin, than to revenge of a bypast fault'', and can do all without any discomposure of spirit, as a physician cuts a vein without anger. Quis enim cut medetur irascitur? "''Who is angry at his own patient''?"<ref name="kindle-works6">Kindle Locations 16505-16513</ref>

* In 1735, the collections of Binning's works were published posthumously, originally edited by M. Leishman, a minister who was a later successor to Hugh in the parish of Govan, which contained sermons not previously published. There have been several editions of ''The Complete Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning'', one of the latest (Classic Reprint) was published by Forgotten Books in 2012.<ref name="Works of Hugh Binning" />