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Selected Sermons of Zachary Boyd
Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
317 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1989
About the author
Zachary Boyd
38 booksZachary Boyd (1585 – 1653) was a Scottish minister and university administrator who wrote many sermons, scriptural versifications and other devotional works. He served as Dean of Faculties, Rector and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Glasgow during the 1630s and 1640s, and bequeathed a generous legacy to the University including his library and large manuscript collection of unpublished sermons and verse.
Boyd was born into the family of Boyd of Pinkhill, Ayrshire. He first studied at the University of Glasgow and then went to Saumur in France. There he followed courses of his kinsman Robert Boyd and in 1611 became Regent Professor. He returned to Glasgow in 1621 and became Minister of Barony Parish in 1625. During the 1630s and 1640s he served as Dean of Faculties, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the Glasgow University.
He was a moderate royalist who, like many faculty members at Glasgow, was initially reluctant to subscribe to the National Covenant in 1638, though in time he did so. As a Scottish Presbyterian his primary concern during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms was to guarantee Presbyterian church government in Scotland. In a poem about the Battle of Newburn Boyd celebrated the Scottish victory but stopped short of saying that the King himself had been defeated. After many magistrates and ministers subsequently fled Glasgow, Boyd remained behind and met Oliver Cromwell in October 1648: Cromwell was advised to ‘pistol the scoundrel’ but instead invited Boyd for dinner.
Three collections of Boyd's verse were printed during his lifetime. The Garden of Zion (1644) is a two-volume work that versifies Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and other Old Testament songs. Boyd sought to have his metrical paraphrase of the psalter (printed in 1644) and scriptural songs (1645) accepted as the standard text for use in England and Scotland.
Boyd's autograph manuscripts, which are held at Glasgow University Library, include Zions Flowers (or Christian Poems for Spiritual Edification), the didactic set of exercises The English Academie and versified Gospels entitled The Four Evangels. Zions Flowers versifies nineteen biblical narratives from the Old Testament, such as Pharoah's Tyrannie and Death, David and Goliath and Destruction of Sodom. The bibliographer Gabriel Neil printed four poems from Zion's Flowers in 1855, and David W. Atkinson produced an edition of Boyd's Selected Sermons for the Scottish Text Society in 1989.
Boyd was born into the family of Boyd of Pinkhill, Ayrshire. He first studied at the University of Glasgow and then went to Saumur in France. There he followed courses of his kinsman Robert Boyd and in 1611 became Regent Professor. He returned to Glasgow in 1621 and became Minister of Barony Parish in 1625. During the 1630s and 1640s he served as Dean of Faculties, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the Glasgow University.
He was a moderate royalist who, like many faculty members at Glasgow, was initially reluctant to subscribe to the National Covenant in 1638, though in time he did so. As a Scottish Presbyterian his primary concern during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms was to guarantee Presbyterian church government in Scotland. In a poem about the Battle of Newburn Boyd celebrated the Scottish victory but stopped short of saying that the King himself had been defeated. After many magistrates and ministers subsequently fled Glasgow, Boyd remained behind and met Oliver Cromwell in October 1648: Cromwell was advised to ‘pistol the scoundrel’ but instead invited Boyd for dinner.
Three collections of Boyd's verse were printed during his lifetime. The Garden of Zion (1644) is a two-volume work that versifies Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and other Old Testament songs. Boyd sought to have his metrical paraphrase of the psalter (printed in 1644) and scriptural songs (1645) accepted as the standard text for use in England and Scotland.
Boyd's autograph manuscripts, which are held at Glasgow University Library, include Zions Flowers (or Christian Poems for Spiritual Edification), the didactic set of exercises The English Academie and versified Gospels entitled The Four Evangels. Zions Flowers versifies nineteen biblical narratives from the Old Testament, such as Pharoah's Tyrannie and Death, David and Goliath and Destruction of Sodom. The bibliographer Gabriel Neil printed four poems from Zion's Flowers in 1855, and David W. Atkinson produced an edition of Boyd's Selected Sermons for the Scottish Text Society in 1989.
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