Our Irish Presbyterian Heritage

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2. Joseph Addison Alexander and the History of the Presbyterian

Church in Ireland Contents -- 4 of 77 -- T his eBook contains two review articles. The first is by Archibald Alexander, and the second by his son, Joseph Addison Alexander. Both father and son reviewed the work of the

Chapter 2

M. A. He had long been minister of Ayr, and had been twice ejected by the

High Commission Court, for his resolute attachment to the Presbyterian cause, which James I. was then labouring to subvert. He had also been cast into prison at Blackness. Upon his arrival at Ulster, he first preached at

Chapter 3

3. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,

held at Dublin, 1859. Belfast, 8vo. Several causes have conspired of late to fix attention on the Presbyterian church in Ireland. The great awakening of the present year, though not confined to that communion, seems to h

Chapter 4

XVI. Present Circumstances (1858)

These divisions, it will be observed, are not arranged upon the principle of equal chronological dimensions, since in this respect, they vary from a single year to more than half a century, but rather upon that of choosi

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2. The Covenanters, or Reformed Presbyterians, made their first appearance

in Ulster a few years after the Seceders, i. e., just before the middle of the century. 3. “The Rev. William Gibson escaped arrest and fled to America . . . Messrs. Black and Wylie, two young men who had now completed th