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John Gray (23 February 1646 - 24 November 1717) was an Episcopalian minister of the Church of Scotland. In 1689, he 'became a non-juror'. [1] as part of the schism following the Glorious Revolution.
He three times visited America: in 1845, to minister in Canada; in 1870 as a delegate from the Free Church of Scotland to congratulate the presbyterian churches in the northern states on their reunion; and for the third time, in 1873, as a member of the Evangelical Alliance, to attend its meetings at New York. Having been a sympathiser with the ...
In the same year, he was one of the Scottish ministers who went to Newcastle to speak very plainly to the king. In 1646 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (3 June). Later, on the death of Alexander Henderson, he was appointed chaplain-in-ordinary to the king, supported by the revenues of the Chapel Royal.
John Semple was a seventeenth-century minister who served in both Ulster and Scotland. He began his ministry by exhorting the people while leading the psalm-singing. His Presbyterian principles brought him into opposition to the policies of the civil authorities.
He was ordained the first pastor of Old Scot's Church, by the First Presbytery, which met in America on December 29, 1706. [1] He was the first Presbyterian minister ordained in America. [2] [3] The event was described by the Rev. Hugh McCauley as "the small beginning of the great stream of organized American Presbyterianism". [4]
In April 1638, soon after the authority of the bishops had been abolished by the nation in Scotland, Gillespie was ordained minister of Wemyss (Fife) by the presbytery of Kirkcaldy. In the same year he was a member of the Glasgow Assembly, before which he preached a sermon, on 21 November, against royal interference in matters ecclesiastical.
The floating church of Loch Sunart. Scottish Church History Society. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Ritchie, Lionel Alexander (2009). Graham Speirs, Sheriff of Midlothian, and his contribution to the Free Church of Scotland. Scottish Church History Society.
Towards the end of 1843 he visited America to make the case for the Free Church and he raised some money there, having already received the degree of D.D. from Princeton University. [ 5 ] [ 4 ] Cunningham was appointed Professor of Theology at the New College, Edinburgh , before transferring to the chair of Church History in 1845, replacing Rev ...