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Erskine, Ebenezer

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Erskine, Ebenezer (1680–1754), leader of the most important 18th-cent. secession from the Church of Scotland. Minister at Portmoak from 1703 and at Stirling from 1731, he was a notable preacher. A sermon which he preached in 1732 upholding the rights of ordinary Church members in ministerial appointments brought him into conflict with the General Assembly. He and three other ministers felt obliged to ‘make a secession’ from the ‘prevailing party’ in the Established Church, forming an ‘associate presbytery’ in 1733. In 1740 he was formally deposed from his charge. Despite internal divisions, the Seceders soon became a powerful Evangelical force in Scotland.

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Ebenezer Erskine

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Ebenezer Erskine , 1680-1754, founder of the Secession Church in Scotland, minister of Portmoak, Kinross-shire (1703) and of Stirling (1731). He upheld the right of the people to make their own choice of pastors, for which he was censured, suspended, and deposed (1733). With three other ministers he set up an Associate Synod, which was the origin of the Secession Church. In 1736 they reaffirmed their separation, but they were not ejected from their churches until 1740. After the split within the Associate Synod over the religious oaths required of burgesses of Scottish cities, Erskine became a leader of the Burghers .

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