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HALYBURTON, THOMAS (1674–1712)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 868 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALYBURTON, See also:THOMAS (1674–1712) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at Dupplin, near See also:Perth, on the 25th of See also:December 1674. His See also:father, one of the ejected ministers, having died in 1682, he was taken by his See also:mother in 1685 to See also:Rotterdam to See also:escape persecution, where he for some See also:time attended the school founded by See also:Erasmus. On his return to his native See also:country in 1687 he completed his elementary See also:education at Perth and See also:Edinburgh, and in 1696 graduated at the university of St See also:Andrews. In 1700 he was ordained See also:minister of the See also:parish of See also:Ceres, and in 1710 he was recommended by the See also:synod of See also:Fife for the See also:chair of See also:theology in St Leonard's See also:College, St Andrews, to which accordingly he was appointed by See also:Queen See also:Anne. After a brief See also:term of active professorial See also:life he died from the effects of overwork in 1712. The See also:works by which he continues to be known were all of them published after his See also:death. See also:Wesley and See also:Whitefield were accustomed to commend them to their followers. They were published as follows: Natural See also:Religion Insufficient, and Revealed Religion Necessary, to See also:Man's Happiness in his See also:Present See also:State (1714), an able statement of the orthodox Calvinistic See also:criticism of the See also:deism of See also:Lord See also:Herbert of Cherbury and See also:Charles See also:Blount; See also:Memoirs of the Life of Mr Thomas Halyburton (1715), three parts by his own See also:hand, the See also:fourth from his See also:diary by another hand; The See also:Great Concern of Salvation (1721), with a word of See also:commendation by I. See also:Watts; Ten Sermons Preached Before and After the Lord's Supper (1722); The Unpardonable See also:Sin Against the See also:Holy See also:Ghost (1784). See Halyburton's Memoirs (1714).

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