{"id":1515,"date":"2013-05-31T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2013-05-31T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T08:00:55","slug":"the-case-of-mr-ebenezer-erskine-founder-of-the-secession-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/05\/31\/the-case-of-mr-ebenezer-erskine-founder-of-the-secession-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, founder of the Secession church in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1516\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/05\/b-a-b-1912.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1516\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1516\" alt=\"The Case of Mr Ebenezer Erskine B.a.b.1912\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/05\/b-a-b-1912.jpg?w=233\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/05\/b-a-b-1912.jpg 599w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/05\/b-a-b-1912-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Case of Mr Ebenezer Erskine<br \/>B.a.b.1912<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ebenezer Erskine (1680\u20131754), a founder of the Secession church, died in Stirling on 2 June 1754. A celebrated preacher,\u00a0 his opposition to patronage, when a local landowner could choose the\u00a0 parish minister without the approval of the people of the parish, set him against the established Church of Scotland.\u00a0 In 1733 Erskine joined other Scottish ministers to form the Associate Presbytery, remaining in active ministry in Stirling. By 1742 the number of seceder congregations in Scotland had grown to twenty.<\/p>\n<p>New College Library holds this pamphlet from 1733, recently catalogued online as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects, which is typical of Erskine&#8217;s sermons published during the controversial times of the early 1730s.\u00a0 New College Library also holds Erskine&#8217;s manuscript notebooks in the archives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"fulltext_link\">David C. Lachman, \u2018Erskine, Ebenezer (1680\u20131754)\u2019, <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/i>, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/8853, accessed 27 May 2013]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebenezer Erskine (1680\u20131754), a founder of the Secession church, died in Stirling on 2 June 1754. 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