Andrew Melville was one of the great Protestant Reformers, and to him fell the mantle of the leadership of the Scottish Church after the death of John Knox.  Melville spent his life in the defense of civil and religious liberty, and wound up in prison and exile for his defense of the rights of the Church of Jesus Christ.  His bold and  dramatic leadership in a time of crisis and persecution make for exciting and inspiring reading, and the story of his life reads like an epic tale. 

Melville is best known for his rebuke of King James VI of Scotland (James 1 of England who the King James Bible was named after), whom he reminded that although he was head of the civil realm, he was only a subject in Christ's kingdom, the church, where he was not the head but only "God's silly vassal".  Melville almost singlehandedly built up the educational system of Scotland to deliver the land from Romish ignorance, idolatry, and superstition, and to lay the foundations for a free and godly society.  His ecclesiastical reforms ended the remnants of episcopacy and monkery in Scotland and his "Second Book of Discipline" established true Presbyterian church government in the Scottish kirk. 

In a day when Christianity is again on the defensive, and again faces the stripping away of its rights and liberties, and when proper and scriptural concepts of church and state relations are again being muddled, the reader will find this work filled with sound principles, practical wisdom, and fearless examples of how Christians should conduct themselves in such circumstances. 

The author is the well known Reformation and church historian Thomas M'Crie, best known for his classic biography of Knox.  This work, out of print for over a century is now again available in a very readable format with god print size and a fast moving narrative style. 

Lovers of liberty, lovers of Presbyterianism, and preeminently lovers of scripture truth will rejoice that this biography of this eminent servant of Jesus Christ is again available to the Lord's people. 

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