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Life of Thomas Maccrie, Author of "life of John Knox"
Life of Thomas Maccrie Author of life of John Knox Author:Thomas M'Crie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: Johnstone Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. FROM HIS SETTLEMENT IN EDINBURGH TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS CONTROVERSY WITH THE SYNOD. 1796 -- 1804. Shortly after his settlement in Edinburgh, Dr M'Crie was united in marriage with Janet, daughter of Mr William Dickson, a respectable farmer in the parish of Swinton. This union, which was the result of a long and ardent attachment, contributed greatly to his domestic happiness. Mrs M'Crie was a person of singular sweetness of disposition, beloved by all who knew her, and she discharged the duties of a wife and mother with the most exemplary prudence, affection and faithfulness. The events of Dr M'Crie's life as a minister of the Gospel at this period would not have been here recorded, were it not from a conviction that, in connection with the place which he was destined to fill as a public man, they are neither unimportant nor uninteresting. While they justified the expectation which his friends who knew him in early life were led to form, they present to us the earnests of what he was afterwards to accomplish, and illustrate the manner in which he was trained for his work. His pulpit exercises at this period were always able, prepared with conscientious care, and, in the earlypart of his ministry, delivered in a style not only animated but oratorial; and this, aided by a somewhat fashionable air and attire, conveyed, at first sight, to some of his more aged brethren, rather an unfavourable impression of his character, which soon however wore off on longer acquaintance. There may have been also some ground for the remark, that his discourses, though master...« less