Scottish divines 1505-1872 . cinated the whole Catholic Church, it becomes aguiding star not only in the realm of Christian thought,but of Christian action, which may one day, if notnow, draw all hearts unto it. AUTHORITIES. The Authorities for this Lecture are in the main indicated in thefoot-notes, but the following summary may begiven of them :—WestsEd. of Leightons Works, 1869-75 5 Pearsons Ed. of same, 1825 ;Jerments Ed. of same, 1805 ; Burnets Histoiy, chiefly vol. i., Oxford,1833 ; Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. List of Students, St. LeonardsCollege, St. Andrezvs, 1586 ; Baillies Lett
Scottish divines 1505-1872 . cinated the whole Catholic Church, it becomes aguiding star not only in the realm of Christian thought,but of Christian action, which may one day, if notnow, draw all hearts unto it. AUTHORITIES. The Authorities for this Lecture are in the main indicated in thefoot-notes, but the following summary may begiven of them :—WestsEd. of Leightons Works, 1869-75 5 Pearsons Ed. of same, 1825 ;Jerments Ed. of same, 1805 ; Burnets Histoiy, chiefly vol. i., Oxford,1833 ; Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. List of Students, St. LeonardsCollege, St. Andrezvs, 1586 ; Baillies Letters, vol. i.; Records 0/DalkeithPresbytery: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,vol. iv.; Do., vol. ii.; l^wx\.ovi?> History, vol. vii.; Cunninghams ChurchHistory of Scotland, vol. ii. ; North British Revitio, vol. xlvi.; Auto-biography or Life of Robert Blair, Wodrow Society ; Irvings Livesof Scottish Worthies, vol. ii.; Notes and Queries, vol. i. ^t. 6iles* ILtttnxts. THIRD SERIES—SCOTTISH LECTURE V. EBENEZER ERSKINE. By the Rev. James Mitchell, , Minister of the Parish ofSouth Leith. rpBENEZER ERSKINE was born on the 22nd ofJune 1680. Untlllately the place of his birth hasbeen a matter either of assertion or conjecture. Mostof his biographers, blindly following Chalmers, haveasserted not only that he was born in the prison of theBass, but that from the Bass Rock he got the name of* Ebenezer, which signifies a stone of help or remem-brance. This assertion long passed unchallenged,from the fact that his father, the Rev. Henry Erskine(a man of singular piety who had been for some timea Presbyterian minister in the north of England,and who had with the other Puritans been ejected bythe Act of Conformity) had after his retirement toDry burgh, been subjected to various persecutions, andsentenced to imprisonment in the Bass. In the best L 150 Ebenezer Erskinc. lifeof Ersklne, published by the Rev. D. Fraserin 1831,it was clearly proved, not on
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