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See also:GILLESPIE, See also:GEORGE (1613-1648) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at See also:Kirkcaldy, where his See also:father, See also:John Gillespie, was See also:parish See also:minister, on the 21st of See also:January 1613, and entered the university of St See also:Andrews as a " See also:presbytery See also:bursar " in 1629. On the completion of a brilliant student career, he became domestic See also:chaplain to John See also:Gordon, 1st See also:Viscount See also:Kenmure (d. 1634), and afterwards to John See also:Kennedy, See also:earl of Cassillis, his See also:conscience not permitting him to accept the episcopal ordination which was at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Scotland an indispensable See also:condition of See also:induction to a parish. While with the earl of Cassillis he wrote his first See also:work, A Dispute against the See also:English Popish Ceremonies obtruded upon the 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 of Scotland, which, opportunely published shortly after the " Jenny See also:Geddes" incident (but without the author's name) in the summer of 1637, attracted considerable See also:attention, and within a few months had been found by the privy See also:council to be so damaging that by their orders all available copies were called in and burnt. In See also:April 1638, soon after the authority of the bishops had been set aside by the nation, Gillespie was ordained minister of See also:Wemyss (See also:Fife) by the presbytery of Kirkcaldy, and in he same See also:year was a member of the famous See also:Glasgow See also:Assembly, before which he preached (See also:November 21st) a See also:sermon against royal interference in matters ecclesiastical so pronounced, as to See also:call for some remonstrance on the See also:part of See also:Argyll, the See also:lord high See also:commissioner. In 1642 Gillespie was translated to See also:Edinburgh; but the brief See also:remainder of his See also:life was chiefly spent in the conduct of public business in See also:London. Already, in 1640, he had accompanied the commissioners of the See also:peace to See also:England as one of their chaplains; and in 1643 he was appointed by the Scottish Church one of the four commissioners to the Westmins er Assembly. Here, though 'the youngest member of the Assembly, he took a prominent part in almost all the protracted discussions on church See also:government, discipline and See also:worship, supporting See also:Presbyterianism by numerous controversial writings, as well as by an unusual fluency and readiness in debate. Tradition See also:long preserved and probably enhanced the See also:record of his victories in debate, andespecially of his encounter, with John See also:Selden on Matt. xviii. 15-17. In 1645 he returned to Scotland, and is said to have See also:drawn the See also:act of assembly sanctioning the See also:directory of public worship. On his return to London he had a See also:hand in drafting the See also:Westminster See also:confession of faith, especially See also:chap. i. Gillespie was elected See also:moderator of the Assembly in 1648, but the laborious duties of that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office (the See also:court continued to sit from the 12th of See also:July to the 12th of See also:August) told fatally on an overtaxed constitution; he See also:fell into See also:consumption, and, after many See also:weeks of See also:great weakness, he died at Kirkcaldy on the 17th of See also:December 1648. In See also:acknowledgment of his great public services, a sum of £1000 Scots was voted, though destined never to be paid, to his widow and See also:children by the See also:committee of estates. A See also:simple tombstone, which had been erected to his memory in Kirkcaldy parish church, was in 1661 publicly broken at the See also:cross by the hand of the See also:common hangman, but was restored in 1746.
His See also:principal publications were controversial and chiefly against Erastianism: Three sermons against See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Coleman; A Sermon before the See also:House of Lords (August 27th), on Matt. iii. 2, Nihil Respondem and Male Audis; See also:Aaron's See also:Rod Blossoming, or the Divine See also:Ordinance of Church-government vindicated (1646), which is deservedly regarded as a really able statement of the See also:case for an exclusive spiritual See also:jurisdiction in the church; One See also:Hundred and Eleven Propositions concerning the See also:Ministry and Government of the Church (Edinburgh, 1647). The following were posthumously published by his See also:brother: A See also:Treatise of See also:Miscellany Questions (1649) ; The See also:Ark of the New Testament (2 vols., 1661–1667) ; Notes of Debates and Proceedings of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, from See also:February 1644 to January 1645. See See also:Works, with memoir, published by Hetherington (Edinburgh, 1843–1846).
End of Article: GILLESPIE, GEORGE (1613-1648)
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