A Letter from a blacksmith to the ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland

Key details

Archive number: NTS/02/25/BRN/21
Alt. number: 3.2375
Date: 1759
On display: Yes
Creator: Faulkner, George (Publisher)

Description

A Letter from a blacksmith to the ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland. In which the manner of public worship in that church is considered; its inconveniences and defects pointed out; and methods for removing them humbly proposed. Six lines of Scripture texts. Dublin, Printed by George Faulkner in Effex-Street.

Robert Burns reportedly shared the feelings of this book’s author, who challenged sermons that ‘bring the weak and ignorant, to the very brink of madness’ and ‘neglect … to better the heart’.

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Themes

Hierarchy