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    The Anti-Burghers were opponents of the Burgher Oath on theological grounds. In 1733 the First Secession from the Church of Scotland resulted in the creation...
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  • Look up Burgher or burgher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Burgher may refer to: Burgher (social class), a medieval, early modern European title of...
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  • required to swear on taking office. The burghers' position was in opposition to the seceders and Anti-Burghers. The Rescissory Act 1661 stated that all...
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    Burghers, creating the Burghers and Anti-Burghers. In towns where the split occurred the churches were known as the Burgher Church and Anti-Burgher Church...
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    Rev. Adam Gib (Gib was a prominent anti-burgher clergyman who in this year had written 'An Account of the Burgher Re-exhibition of the Secession Testimony')...
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  • Mair (1701 – 17 February 1768) was a Scottish Anti-Burgher minister and moderator of the Anti-Burgher Associate Synod. Thomas Mair was born in 1701,...
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    became the leading minister of the Original Secession Church (Auld Licht Anti-Burgher). His work: "Life of Knox" (1813) was a means of vindicating the Scottish...
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    next vacancy, being inducted on 30 May 1797. The union of the Burgher and Anti-Burgher "New Licht" churches to form the United Secession Church in 1820...
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  • the New Lights formed the Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod. Anti-burgher movement in Scotland Old Side–New Side controversy Bonomi, Patricia U...
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    is in the public domain. Forrester, David M. (1941). "Adam Gib, the anti-burgher". Scottish Church History Society. Retrieved 25 August 2018. Gib, Adam...
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    minister and poet. He was the professor of divinity of the 'New Licht' Anti-Burgher General Associate Synod. Paxton was born on 2 April 1762 at Dalgourie...
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    Scottish Episcopal Church (1711) Associate Presbytery (1733) Burghers (1747) Anti-Burghers (1747) Relief Church (1761) New Lights (1800s) United Secession...
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    by the Anti-Burgher Synod. The buildings were also used as the Synod's theological college. While divisions between Burghers and Anti-Burghers were dying...
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    of Mr Whitefield's Administrations (Glasgow 1758) The Artifices of the Burghers (Glasgow, 1761) Sermons and Tracts, 2 vols (1779) and jointly with Eben...
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    the Anti-Burgher Old Lights, led by Thomas M'Crie the Elder and known as "the Constitutional Associate Presbytery" and (2) the portion of the Anti-Burgher...
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    churches. It was the site of "The Breach" between the secession's Burgher and Anti-Burgher factions in 1747. In 1820, the factions reunited at Bristo to form...
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  • University of Glasgow, was ordained, in 1768, minister of the Associate (Anti-Burgher) congregation of Whitburn. In 1786 he was appointed professor of divinity...
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    Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He was educated at the Pictou Academy and the anti-burgher seminary in West River in Nova Scotia, and, from 1853 to 1860, in Scotland...
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  • into a farming family at Dunblane where his father was an elder of the Anti-burgher Church of the First Secession. Raised in that communion, he initially...
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  • splits. In 1820 two of the resulting groups, the New Licht Burghers and the New Licht Anti-Burghers, united to form the United Secession Church. The denomination...
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    subscription to the Westminster Confession. They requested ministers from the Anti-Burgher Associate Presbytery in Scotland, who were called "Seceders" because...
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    for acting on principle with honesty and courage. In 1820 the burgher and anti-burgher sections of the Secession Church were reunited, followed, in 1847...
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  • ancient city-states, giving rise to a civitas and the social class of the burgher or bourgeoisie. Since then states have expanded the status of citizenship...
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    church's building was constructed for a congregation of Auld Licht Anti-Burghers in 1813. The building's first congregation was founded in 1806, when...
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    full miller at the age of fourteen. The family attended the Seceder Anti-burgher Presbyterian Meeting House at Midlem. The minister, the Reverend James...
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    village of Cambridge, in Washington County, New York, and was raised an Anti-Burgher Presbyterian. In 1795 both of his parents died, leaving him along with...
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  • Margaret Marjory, died aged 16 Thomas John, minister of the Associate Anti-burgher Congregation, Methven, born 1733, died 31st Jan. 1803. Seven Occasional...
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  • Preceded by George Paxton as Professor of Theology of the 'New Light' Anti-Burgher Secession Church in Scotland Succeeded by Alexander Duncan as Professor...
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  • the restrictions were lifted. Burger's Daughter details a group of white anti-apartheid activists in South Africa seeking to overthrow the South African...
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    Margaret Forrest. His name-father, Rev James Aitken, was an Auld Licht Anti-burgher minister in the Secession Church. Wylie was educated at Marischal College...
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