The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Vol. I
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Overview
Ebenezer Erskine was a Scottish minister, talented orator, and key figure in establishing the Secession Church in Scotland. He was minister of Portmoak, where he served for 28 years until he moved to the West Church in Stirling, where he served for 23 years. He was known as a man of incorruptible integrity who acted with honesty and courage. This devotion to his principles led him to head a group of ministers who would not be a part of a Church of Scotland that compromised the rights of the congregation. Erskine’s Puritan preaching frequently drew a crowd his church could not contain, drawing him to regularly preach outside. Included is the first of a three volume set of the steadfast Puritan’s published sermons and poetry, still profitable for study today for any student of Puritan and Reformed thought.
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- Presents Ebenezer Erskine’s collected works of poetry and prose
- Includes the first of three volumes from the leader of the Scottish secession movement
- Explore’s numerous unabridged eighteenth-century puritan sermons
- God’s Little Remnant Keeping Their Garments Clean in an Evil Day
- The Backslider Characterized
- The Wind of the Holy Ghost Blowing upon the Dry Bones in the Valley of Vision
- The Kings is Held in the Galleries
- The Groans of Believers under their Burdens
- The Believer Exalted in Imputed Righteousness
- The Humble Soul the Peculiar Favorite of Heaven
- The Necessity and Profitableness of Good Works Asserted
- Christ in the Believer’s Arms
- A Discourse on the Throne of Grace
- The Assurance of Faith Opened and Applied
- God in Christ, a God of Love
- Unbelief Arraigned and Condemned at the Bar of God
- The Day-Spring from on High
- The Rainbow of the Covenant Surrounding the Throne of Grace
- The Tree of Life Shaking Her Fruits and Leaves among the Nations
- The Law of Faith Issuing Forth from Mount Zion
- The Stone Rejected by the Builders Exalted as the head-stone of the corner
Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754) was a Scottish minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church in Scotland. Ebenezer studied at the University of Edinburgh and then became minister of Portmoak, where he served for 28 years until he moved to the West Church in Stirling, where he served for 23 years. In 1733 he was suspended because of his democratic stance on lay patronage. In protest, Erskine and the other suspended ministers formed their own church court, no longer acknowledging the authority of the General Assembly. This eventually lead to Ebenezer being deposed, though he continued to preach to a large and influential congregation in Stirling until his death in 1754.