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RALPH ERSKINE (1685-1752)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 756 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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