, was a protestant minister of a distinguished family in Scotland,
, was a protestant minister of a distinguished family in Scotland, but educated in France, where
he passed the chief part of his life. James I. employed
him to reconcile the differences between Tilenus and du
Moulin, on the subject of justification; and, if possible, to
reconcile the protestants throughout Europe to one single
form of doctrine; but this was found impracticable. The
chief work of Home is, his, 1. “Apologia Basilica; seu
Machiavelli ingenium examinatum,
” Le contr' Assassin, ou reponse
a TApologie des Jesuites,
” Geneve, L'Assassinat du Roi, ou maximes du Viel de la
Montagne, pratiquees en la personne de defunt Henri le
Grand,
” 1617, 8vo. He is also the author of several conipositions in the “Delicise Poetarum Scotorum.
” The
times of his birth and death are not known,