See also:RALPH See also:ERSKINE (1685-1752)
, Scottish divine, See also:brother of Ebenezer See also:Erskine (q.v.), was See also:born on the 18th of See also:March 1685
.
After studying at the university of See also:Edinburgh, he was in 1711
ordained assistant See also:minister at See also:Dunfermline
.
He homologated the protests which his brother laid on the table of the See also:assembly after being rebuked for his See also:synod See also:sermon, but he did not formally withdraw from the See also:establishment till 1737
.
He was also See also:present, though not as a member, at the first See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the See also:associate See also:presbytery
.
When the severance took See also:place on See also:account of the See also:oath administered to burgesses, he adhered, along with his brother, to the burgher See also:section
.
He died after a See also:short illness on the 6th of See also:November 1752
.
His See also:works consist of sermons, poetical paraphrases and See also:gospel sonnets
.
The Gospel Sonnets have frequently appeared separately
.
His See also:Life and See also:Diary, edited by the Rev
.
D
.
See also:Fraser, was published in 1842
.
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