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CALL TO MR. THOMAS FORRESTER 347
Wedensday the 9SHh.—Being ye monethly fast, at home,
lectured on micah 6, 9.
Aug. 2.—Lectured and preached on ditto.
9th.—Lectured on ditto, and preached on Jer. 3, 13.
\6th.—Lectured and preached on ditto.
23rf.—Lectured and preached on ditto.
Aug. QQth.—Being Wedensday the monethly fast for success
to the King’s arms, lectured on psa. Ill, and preached on
hos. 6, 1.
30th.—Att dumblan lectured on psa. 95; preached on
Jer. 3, 13; and bapt. 2 children.
Moonday, 31.—I rod to dumbarton to psent a call to Mr.
Tho. Forrester1 from the paroch of Kincairn.
Wedensday, Septr. 2.—I returned to Sterlin and on thursday
home.
Septr. Oth.—Lectured on luke 15; preached on Jer. 3, 22;
and baptised 2 children.
13^/i.—Lectured on ditto, and preached on prov. 4, 23.
and by being forcibly prevented from sleeping for eight or nine days and nights.
Imprisoned thereafter in Dumbarton Castle along with William (afterwards
Principal) Carstares, his deposition was declared null and void by the General
Assembly of 1690, and after officiating for a short time at Kinross, he was
restored to his old parish of Glendevon, and was removed to Fossoway this year
(1691), (see the notice of his admission in this Diary, on 21st September), and
died there 19th March 1715, in his eightieth year, after a very chequered and
eventful life.—Wodrow’s History, vol. iv. ; Register of the Diocesan Synod of
Dunblane, App. p. 250.
1 Thomas Forrester, the minister of Killearn, where he was settled in 1688.
A native of Stirling, he was originally ordained at Alva in 1664, but renouncing
Episcopacy in 1673, and preaching at conventicles, he was taken prisoner at
Stirling and conveyed to Edinburgh in February 1674. Deposed by the Diocesan
Synod and Bishop of Dunkeld in April that same year, he was proclaimed a
fugitive in 1684. While at Killearn, besides this call to Kincardine, he received
others from Glasgow, Dumbarton, Strathaven, and St. Andrews, to the last of
which he was translated in 1692, and became Principal of the New College there
in 1698. He died in November 1706. He is said by Dr. Burns, the editor of
Wodrow’s History, to have been ‘ well known as one of the ablest advocates of
Presbyterianism and of the Church of Scotland at a period when the controversy
with Episcopalians was conducted on both sides with uncommon ardour and no
slender talent.’ Forrester’s chief publication is entitled, The HierarchialBishops
Claim to a Divine Right tried at the Scripture Bar, published at Edinburgh in
1699.—Scott’s Fasti ; Wodrow’s History, vol. ii. p. 252 et seq.
1691
Wedensday the 9SHh.—Being ye monethly fast, at home,
lectured on micah 6, 9.
Aug. 2.—Lectured and preached on ditto.
9th.—Lectured on ditto, and preached on Jer. 3, 13.
\6th.—Lectured and preached on ditto.
23rf.—Lectured and preached on ditto.
Aug. QQth.—Being Wedensday the monethly fast for success
to the King’s arms, lectured on psa. Ill, and preached on
hos. 6, 1.
30th.—Att dumblan lectured on psa. 95; preached on
Jer. 3, 13; and bapt. 2 children.
Moonday, 31.—I rod to dumbarton to psent a call to Mr.
Tho. Forrester1 from the paroch of Kincairn.
Wedensday, Septr. 2.—I returned to Sterlin and on thursday
home.
Septr. Oth.—Lectured on luke 15; preached on Jer. 3, 22;
and baptised 2 children.
13^/i.—Lectured on ditto, and preached on prov. 4, 23.
and by being forcibly prevented from sleeping for eight or nine days and nights.
Imprisoned thereafter in Dumbarton Castle along with William (afterwards
Principal) Carstares, his deposition was declared null and void by the General
Assembly of 1690, and after officiating for a short time at Kinross, he was
restored to his old parish of Glendevon, and was removed to Fossoway this year
(1691), (see the notice of his admission in this Diary, on 21st September), and
died there 19th March 1715, in his eightieth year, after a very chequered and
eventful life.—Wodrow’s History, vol. iv. ; Register of the Diocesan Synod of
Dunblane, App. p. 250.
1 Thomas Forrester, the minister of Killearn, where he was settled in 1688.
A native of Stirling, he was originally ordained at Alva in 1664, but renouncing
Episcopacy in 1673, and preaching at conventicles, he was taken prisoner at
Stirling and conveyed to Edinburgh in February 1674. Deposed by the Diocesan
Synod and Bishop of Dunkeld in April that same year, he was proclaimed a
fugitive in 1684. While at Killearn, besides this call to Kincardine, he received
others from Glasgow, Dumbarton, Strathaven, and St. Andrews, to the last of
which he was translated in 1692, and became Principal of the New College there
in 1698. He died in November 1706. He is said by Dr. Burns, the editor of
Wodrow’s History, to have been ‘ well known as one of the ablest advocates of
Presbyterianism and of the Church of Scotland at a period when the controversy
with Episcopalians was conducted on both sides with uncommon ardour and no
slender talent.’ Forrester’s chief publication is entitled, The HierarchialBishops
Claim to a Divine Right tried at the Scripture Bar, published at Edinburgh in
1699.—Scott’s Fasti ; Wodrow’s History, vol. ii. p. 252 et seq.
1691
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