Alexander Henderson

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Minister Leuchars, Scotland (1612)
Commissioner, Scotland Scotland (1639)
Minister, High Kirk St Giles, Edinburgh, Scotland (1639)
Rector, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland (1640)
Commisioner, Scotland Scotland (1641)
Chaplain, Scotland Scotland (1641)

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The unlawfullnes and danger of limited prelacie, or Perpetuall presidencie in the Church, briefly discovered (1641) by Alexander Henderson
The government and order of the Church of Scotland (1641) by Alexander Henderson
The declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson (1648) by Alexander Henderson
The answeres of some brethren of the minitserie, to the replyes of the ministers and professours of divinitie in Aberdene (1638) by Alexander Henderson
Reformation of church-government in Scotland, cleered from some mistakes and prejudices, by the Commissioners (1644) by Alexander Henderson
Protestation of the noblemen, barrons, gentlemen, borrowes, ministers, and commons, subscribers of the confession of Faith and Covenant (1638) by Alexander Henderson
Generall demands concerning the late covenant (1638) by Alexander Henderson
A sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Wednesday, December 27. 1643 (1644) by Alexander Henderson
A sermon preached by the Reverend Mr Alexander Henderson, before the sitting downe of the General Assembly (1682) by Alexander Henderson
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords … Wednesday the 28. of May 1645 (1645) by Alexander Henderson
A sermon preachd before the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament (1644) by Alexander Henderson

Secondary Sources - Biographical

The life of Alexander Henderson: Minister of Edinburgh, and one of the commissioners from the Church of Scotland, to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster (1840) by Thomas McCrie (About)
The Life and Times of Alexander Henderson: Giving a History of the Second Reformation of the Church of Scotland, and of the Covenanters, During the Reign of Charles I (1836) by John Aiton (About)
Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters: The Work of Alexander Henderson (2015) by L. Charles Jackson (About)
Riots, Revolutions, and the Scottish Covenanters: The Work of Alexander Henderson (2017) by Kenneth J. Stewart (About)
Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of Those Eminent Divines, Who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2. (1811; Reprint 1982) by James Reid (About)
Makers of Puritan history : biographical studies of Alexander Henderson, Samuel Rutherford, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter (2009) by Marcus L. Loane (About)
Lives of Alexander Henderson and James Guthrie. With Specimens of their Writings (1846) by (About)
Life of Alexander Henderson (1917-18) by Joseph Minton Batten (About)
J. B. Salmond and G. H. Bushnell. Henderson’s Benefaction: A Tercentenary Acknowledgment of the University’s Debt to Alexander Henderson (1944) by Mabel Dean (About)
Henderson’s Benefaction: A Tercentenary Acknowledgment of the University’s Debt to Alexander Henderson (1942) by J.B. Salmond (About)
Henderson, Alexander (c. 1583-1646), Church of Scotland minister and politician (2004) by John Coffey (About)
For Kirk and Kingdom: the public career of Alexander Henderson (1637-1646) (2012) by L. Charles Jackson (About)
Arminianism in the Lord’s Assembly: Glasgow 1638 (1996) by David Mullan (About)
Alexander Henderson: Reformed Orthodoxy and Constitutional Crisis in Scotland (2015) by Donald Macleod (About)
Alexander Henderson: Churchman and Statesman (1919) by Robert Low Orr (About)

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