Gillespie's Sermons : 1747
Gillespie, Thomas, 1708-17741747
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The handwritten sermons of Rev. Thomas Gillespie of Carnock, one of the Founders of the Relief Church. Born at Clearburn (Farm), Duddingston, Edinburgh in 1708, Gillespie's father died when he was very young, leaving his mother, Mary Haliburton, to run the family farm and brewery. Thomas studied at Edinburgh University from 1732, and was ordained at Northampton in 1741. He was appointed Minister at Carnock Parish Church in September of that same year, in the Presbytery of Dunfermline. Gillespie was closely involved in the religious revivalism of the 1740s, In 1761, with Thomas Boston of Jedburgh, and Thomas Colier of Colinsburgh, Gillespie formed a distinct communion under the name of the "Presbytery of Relief"—relief, that is to say, from patronage and the church courts. From 1769 the Relief Church, as it had become after further rapid growth, experienced internal tensions. Gillespie was believed to favour a reconciliation with the Church of Scotland, and began to distance himself, but on his death in 1774, the Relief Church maintained its independence. It eventually became one of the communions combining to form the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
Main title:
Gillespie's Sermons : 1747 / by Rev.Thomas Gillespie.
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Imprint:
Dunfermline, 1747.
Collation:
9 cm x 16 cm.
Local class:
4/GIL
Language:
English
Subject:
Gillespie, Thomas, 1708-1774Relief Presbytery (Scotland)Church history -- Scotland -- FifeChurch history -- Scotland -- CarnockSermons -- 18th centuryChurch history -- Sermons -- Scotland -- FifeSermons -- Scotland -- CarnockClergy -- Scotland -- CarnockClergy -- Scotland -- FifeClergy -- Scotland -- DunfermlineCarnock (Scotland : Parish) -- History
BRN:
3437262