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See also: GIB, See also:ADAM (1714-1788) , Scottish divine and See also:leader of the Antiburgher See also:section of the Scottish See also:Secession See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:April 1714 in the See also:parish of Muckhart, See also:Perthshire, and, on the completion of his See also:literary and theological studies at See also:Edinburgh and See also:Perth, was licensed as a preacher in 1740.
His eldest See also:brother being a prodigal he succeeded to the paternal See also:estate, but threw the will into the See also:fire on his brother's promising to reform. In 1741 he was ordained See also:minister of the large Secession See also:congregation of Bristo See also:Street, Edinburgh. In 1745 he was almost the only minister of Edinburgh who continued to preach against See also:rebellion while the troops of See also:Charles See also:Edward were in occupation of the See also:town. When in 1747 " the See also:Associate See also:Synod," by a narrow See also:majority, decided not to give full immediate effect to a See also:judgment which had been passed in the previous See also:year against the lawfulness of the " See also:Burgess See also:Oath," Gib led the protesting minority, who separated from their brethren and formed the Antiburgher Synod (April loth) in his own See also:house in Edinburgh. It was chiefly under his See also:influence that it was agreed by this ecclesiastical See also:body at subsequent meetings to summon to the See also:bar their " Burgher " brethren, and finally to depose and excommunicate them for See also:contumacy. Gib's See also:action in forming the Antiburgher Synod led, after prolonged litigation, to his exclusion from the See also:building in Bristo Street where his congregation had met. In 1765 he made a vigorous and able reply to the See also:General See also:Assembly of the Church of See also:Scotland, which had stigmatized the Secession as " threatening the See also:peace of the See also:country." From 1753 till within a See also:short See also:period of his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 18th of See also:June 1788, he preached regularly in See also:Nicolson Street church, which was constantly filled with an See also:audience of two thousand persons. His dogmatic and fearless attitude in controversy earned for him the See also:nickname " See also:Pope
Gib."
See also:Principal publications: Tables for the Four Evangelists (177o, and with author's name, 1800) ; The See also:Present Truth, a Display of the Secession Testimony (2 vols., 1774); Vindiciae dominicae (Edin., 178o). See See also:Chambers's Eminent Scotsmen; also See also:article See also:UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
End of Article: GIB, ADAM (1714-1788)
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