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'''Robert Baillie''' (30 April 1602{{snd}}1662) was a [[Church of Scotland]] [[Minister of religion|minister]] who became famous as an author and a propagandist for the [[Covenanters]].<ref>[http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0007&type=P Robert Baillie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014233628/http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0007&type=P |date=14 October 2017 }}. University of Glasgow (multitab page-but image is of James Baillie (1723–1778))</ref>

In Baillie's engagement with the theological and liturgical controversies of the mid-Seventeenth Century, Baillie sought to reconcile his strong belief in maintaining [[Kirk]] unity with a firm adherence to a Christian doctrine dictated by the divine 'truth' revealed in Scripture.{{sfn|Campbell|2017|p=137}}

Two large volumes of Baillie's sermons survive in manuscript.  He was also conscientious in ensuring that copies were made of his outgoing correspondence and other documents with a view to creating a body of evidence which could be used to prepare a historical account of the Covenanters.  This material remains a valuable source for historians of the period.

==Life==
[[File:Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1644.jpg|thumb|''Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines'', 1847, [[Palace of Westminster]]]]
Baillie was born in the [[Saltmarket]], [[Glasgow]], the eldest son of James Baillie, a merchant and [[Burgess (title)|burgess]] of Glasgow, and his wife, Helen Gibson. He was educated at the [[High School of Glasgow]] and the [[University of Glasgow]], graduating with an M.A. in 1620. He was licensed by Archbishop [[James Law]] and became a regent of Philosophy in the University, and tutor to the son of [[Alexander Montgomery, 6th Earl of Eglinton]]. He was ordained to [[Kilwinning]] on 25 May 1631 and admitted burgess of Glasgow 6 July 1631. In 1638 he represented the Presbytery of [[Irvine, Ayrshire|Irvine]] at the Glasgow Assembly, when [[Presbyterianism]] was re-established in Scotland. In 1639 he accompanied Lord General [[Alexander Leslie]] and the Scottish army as chaplain to Lord Eglinton's Regiment during the [[Bishops' Wars]]. In 1640 he was appointed by the Covenanters to draw up an accusation against [[Archbishop Laud]]. On 11 August 1642 he was translated to the Tron Kirk in Glasgow.  In the same year, Baillie was made [[Professor of Divinity, Glasgow|Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow]], holding the chair jointly with [[David Dickson (minister)|David Dickson]]. In 1643 he was selected as one of the five Scottish clergymen who were sent to the [[Westminster Assembly]]. In January 1647 he presented the completed [[Westminster Confession of Faith|Confession of Faith]] and a version of the Psalms in metre to the [[General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]].{{sfn|Scott|1928|p=395}}

In 1649, Baillie was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. He continued to take an interest in religious controversies during the [[Interregnum (1649–1660)|Interregnum]], but was not active politically. In 1661 he was made [[Principal of the University of Glasgow]] in place of [[Patrick Gillespie (minister)|Patrick Gillespie]]. He died the following year, in August 1662.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=220}}

==Liturgical controversies==

Baillie accepted the liturgical changes introduced by [[James VI]]'s [[Articles of Perth]] (1618), even elaborating an exhaustive defence of kneeling at communion in protracted correspondence with [[David Dickson (minister)|David Dickson]], the minister for the parish of [[Irvine, North Ayrshire|Irvine]].  However, he denounced [[William Laud]]'s ''Scottish Prayer Book'' (1637) as "popish" and "idolatrous".{{sfn|Campbell|2017|p=146}} His critical analysis of the intentions of its [[Canterbury|Canterburian]] authors is set out in his {{lang|enm|A parallel or briefe comparison of the liturgie with the masse-book, the breviarie, the ceremoniall, and other Romish rituals}} and ''Ladensium autakakrisis'' of 1641.

==Cromwellian invasion==

In the [[James Guthrie (minister)#Resolutioners versus Protestors|Resolutioner versus Protester]] schism in the Church of Scotland during the Cromwellian invasion of Scotland, Baillie sided with the [[Resolutioners]].  His ecclesiology saw the church as an ''ecclesia mixta'', comprising both reprobate and elect.  He rejected the Protestors' more exclusive vision of a church of visible saints in which membership (and by extension the ability to hold church office) should be restricted to godly "true" believers.  Baillie's concern was to maintain church unity and combat the threat posed by sectarians.{{sfn|Campbell|2017|p=107–111}}

Of the Resolutioners, [[Robert Douglas (minister)|Robert Douglas]] was, by head and shoulders, the acknowledged leader. His ministerial supporters included [[David Dickson (minister)|David Dickson]], Baillie, and James Wood. Among the Protesters the most outstanding ministers were [[James Guthrie (minister)|James Guthrie]], [[Samuel Rutherford|Samuel Rutherfurd]], [[Andrew Cant (minister)|Andrew Cant]], [[Patrick Gillespie (minister)|Patrick Gillespie]], and [[John Livingstone (minister)|John Livingstone]]; and, of the elders, [[Archibald Johnston|Wariston]] and Sir John Cheisly; the two most strenuous fighters being Guthrie and Wariston.{{sfn|Johnston|Fleming|1919|p=xxxix}}

Baillie's mentor [[Robert Blair (moderator)|Robert Blair]] urged him to disengage from the Resolutioner – Protestor conflict and concentrate on his academic writing.  Accordingly, during the 1650s Baillie immersed himself in his teaching at the University of Glasgow and writing treatises on Hebrew and biblical chronology.{{sfn|Campbell|2017|p=53}}

==Restoration==

In correspondence with [[William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn]], [[John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale]] and [[James Sharp (archbishop)|James Sharp]] after the [[Restoration of 1660 (Scotland)|Restoration]], Baillie made it clear that he thought the episcopal settlement Charles II imposed on Scotland was a mistake, but he did not oppose the return of bishops publicly.  When, in 1662, he met [[Andrew Fairfoul]], the recently consecrated [[Archbishop of Glasgow]], he greeted him cordially, but made a point of not acknowledging his status.

==Works==
A complete memoir and a full notice of his writings can be found in [[David Laing (Scottish antiquary)|David Laing]]'s edition of the ''Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie'' (1637–1662), [[Bannatyne Club]], 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1841–1842). Among his works are ''Ladensium αὐτοκατάκρισις'', an answer to ''Lysimachus Nicanor'' by [[John Corbet (theologian)|John Corbet]] in the form of an attack on [[William Laud|Laud]] and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the [[Covenanter]]s with [[Jesuits|Jesuitry]]; ''[[Anabaptist|Anabaptism]], the true Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc.'', a sermon [in which he criticises the rise of the early Baptist churches in England such as those led by [[Thomas Lambe]]]; ''An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland''; ''The Life of William (Laud) now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Examined'' (London, 1643); ''A Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, the Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals'' (London, 1661).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=220}}

*''La densivm AUTOKATAKRISIS : the Canterburians self-conviction ... : with a postscript for the personat Jesuite Lysimachus Nicanor'' (1641) https://archive.org/details/ladensivmautokat00bail
*''A dissuasive from the errours of the time : wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scrptures'' [sic] (1645) https://archive.org/details/dissuasivefromer00bail
*''Errours and induration are the great sins and the great judgements of the time : preached in a sermon before the Right Honourable House of Peers, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, 30 July 1645, the day of the monethly fast'' (1645) https://archive.org/details/erroursind00bail
*''Operis historici et chronologici libri duo : in quibus historia sacra & profana compendiosè deducitur ex ipsis fontibus, a creatione mundi ad Constantinum Magnum, & quaestiones ac dubia chronologica, quae ex V. & N. Testamento moveri solent, breviter & perspicuè explicantur & vindicantur. Una cum tribus diatribis ...'' (MDCLXVIII [1668]) https://archive.org/details/operishistoricie00bail
*''The letters and journals of Robert Baillie ... 1637–1662'' (Volume 1) (1841){{sfn|Baillie|1841–1842a}} 
*''The letters and journals of Robert Baillie ... 1637–1662'' (Volume 2) (1841){{sfn|Baillie|1841–1842b}} 
*''The letters and journals of Robert Baillie ... 1637–1662'' (Volume 3) (1841){{sfn|Baillie|1841–1842c}}

==Family==
Baillie married
*(1st) 1631, Lilias Fleming of the family of Cardarroch, parish of [[Cadder]], who died 7 June 1653, and had issue – 
**Lilias (married, cont. 7 and 16 January 1657, William Eccles, minister of Ayr)
**Helen, baptised 20 January 1644
**Elizabeth, baptised 23 October 1647
**other three children
*(2nd) 1656, Helen (died February 1679), daughter of [[John Strang]], D.D., [[Principal of the University of Glasgow]], and widow of James Elliot, D.D., minister of Trinity Parish, Edinburgh, and had issue – 
**Margaret, baptised 21 July 1657 (married John Walkinshaw of [[Barrowfield]] and [[Camlachie]], and was ancestress of [[Clementina Walkinshaw|Clementina Mary Sophia Walkinshaw]], mistress of [[Charles Edward Stuart|Prince Charles Edward]]).{{sfn|Scott|1928|p=395}}

==Bibliography==
*''Ladensium avTOKaraKpitris : the Canterburian's Self -Conviction, An Evident Demonstration of the Avowed Arminianisme, Poperie, and Tyrannie of the Faction, by their oione Confessions; with a Postcript to the Personat Jesuite Lysimachus Nicanor, a prime Canterburian'' [anon.] (Amsterdam, 1640, 3rd ed., London, 1641); 
*{{lang|enm|A Parallel or Brief e Comparison of the Liturgie with the Masse-Book, the Breviarie, the Ceremoniall, and other Bomish Ritualls}} (London, 1641); 
*''An Antidote against Arminianisme'' (London, 1641); 
*''The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacie [in support of Alexander Henderson's Tract on the "Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Prelacie"]'' [anon.] (1641); 
*''Satan the Leader-in-Chief to all who resist the Reparation of Sion; as it was cleared in a Sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late Solemn Fast, 28th Feb. 1643'' (London, 1643); 
*''Errours and Induration are the great Sins and the great Judgments of the Time; preached in a Sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in the Abbey Church of Westminster, 30 July 1645'' (London, 1645); 
*''A Dissuasive from the Errours of the Time; wherein the Tenets of the Principall Sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in a Map'' (London, 1645); 
*''An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland from the manifold base Calumnies which the most malignant of the Prelates did invent of old, and now lately have been published with great industry in two pamphlets at London; the one intitided "Issachar's Burden," etc., written and published at Oxford by John Maxwell, a Scottish Prelate, etc.'' (London, 1646);
*''Anabaptisme, the True Fountains of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc., or a Second Part of the Dissuasive from the Errours of the Time'' (London, 1647); 
*''A Review of Dr Bramble [Branihall], late Bishop of Londonderry, his Faire Warning against the Scotes Disciplin'' (Delf, 1649);
*''Appendix Practica ad Joannis Buxtorfii Epitomen Grammaticae Hebraeae'' [anon.] (Edinburgh, 1653);
*''Catachesis Elenetica Error-urn qui hodie vexant Ecclesiam'' (London, 1654); 
*''The Dissuasive from the Errours of the i Time, vindicated from the Exceptions of Mr Cotton and Mr Tombes'' (London, 1655);
*''Operis Historei et Chronologei Libri Duo'' (Amsterdam, 1663); 
*''Letters and Journals, 1637–1662'', 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1775) [edited by David Laing], 3 vols. (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1841-2). 
*MSS. of Baillie are preserved in Glasgow and Edinburgh University Libraries, and in the National Library of Scotland.{{sfn|Scott|1928|p=395-396}}

==References==
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==Sources==
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==Further reading==
*''Carlyle's Critical and Miscellaneous Essays'', ix., 217-52;
**{{Cite book |last=Carlyle |first=Thomas |title=[[Critical and Miscellaneous Essays]]: Volume IV |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |year=1841 |series=The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes |volume=XXIX |location=New York |publication-date=1904 |pages=226–260 |chapter=Baillie the Covenanter |author-link=Thomas Carlyle |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/worksofthomascar29carl/page/226/mode/2up}}
*Catalogue Edin, Univ. Lib., i., 216; 
*Glasgow Burgess Roll;
*G. R. Sas., xlii., 360;
*Scot. Antiq., vii., 134;
*Reid's Divinity Professors, 75–126 [has a Bibliography]; 
*Memoir by David Laing in Letters and Journals;
*Anderson's The Scottish Nation, i., 174 et seq.; 
*James Reid's Memoirs of Westminster Divines; 
*Irving's Lives, ii., 55–70;
*Dict. Nat. Biog.<!--{{sfn|Scott|1928|p=395-396}}-->

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*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Robert Baillie}}

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