Robert Baillie was one of the few (but very influential) Scottish Presbyterian representatives to the Assembly. In his early career he was caught up in the general Scottish resistance to the forcible establishment of High Anglicanism by Charles I and Archbishop Laud. He traveled with the Scottish army as a regimental preacher. When the time came he took up his responsibilities in the Assembly and subsequently became something of a diplomat. After the Stuart Restoration he could have had a bishopric, but was steadfast in his resistance to this form of church government, observing that, "I do not find in the New Testament that Christ has any lords in his house."
Tomorrow: Samuel Rutherford.
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