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1704 the former did not compear, and was suspended; the other
compeared and was delayed ; yre lybell was schism.
About this time a great and sudden alteration in the Queens
privy Counsell and officers of state.1
June ID/i.—Lectured on judges 5th, and preacht all day on
Isay 55, 6.
17^, Saturnday.—Befor the sacrament in Stenton, I preacht
on John 1, 12 ; and on the lords day, 18th, aftarnoon on John
1,16; it was a good day.
No sermon att Tyningham this Sunday.
%5th.—Att Tyningham, lect. on judg. 6; preacht in the
fornoon on psa. 56, 10; and aftarnoon on Exod. 20, 8, 9,
10, 11.
July 2.—Lectured on judges 7th, and preacht on psa. 143, 2.
Mr. Millar at Kirkliston2 preacht in the aftarnoon on job
22, 27.
9th.—Lect. on judges 8; preacht fornoon on psa. 143, 2;
and aftarnoon on Exod. 20, 8, 9, 10.
This weeke my wife and I made a progress to visit our
freinds. Thursday 13th we came to Edenr, and stayed there
till next moonday; that day we went to Killbryd easter, by
the way of Hamilton, lodged att Killbryd that night, and
twesday 18th we came to Killwinning, where my wife had a
deposed by the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright in December 1703, for disorderly and
schismatical practices. In answer to their summons he appeared before the
Commission, both in June and July this year (1704); but no prospect appearing
of his being reponed, he continued his ministry, and the parishioners being
strongly influenced in his favour, resisted every attempt to eject him from the
church and manse, till he voluntarily retired about twelve years after. Joining
the Cameronian party, who had no minister since 1690, he and a Mr. Nairn—a
minister of the Secession church—and one or two elders, constituted themselves
into a church court, which they called ‘ the Reformed Presbytery,’ at Braehead,
Carnwath, Lanarkshire, on 1st August 1743,—the beginning of what afterwards
come to be known as ‘The Reformed Presbyterian Church.’ Mr. M‘Millan
died at Broomhill, in the parish of Bothwell, 1st December 1753, in his eighty-
fourth year.—Scott’s Fasti; Struthers’ Hist, of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 57-75.
1 See Marshall’s Hist, of the Union, pp. 46, 56, 57.
2 Thomas Millar, M. A., graduated at Edinburgh in 1669 ; became minister of
Stranraer in 1689, and was admitted minister of Kirkliston in 1691, on producing
certificates of his ordination. Died in January 1716, aged about sixty-seven.—
Scott’s Fasti.