- a
person who
upheld the
lawfulness of the
burgess oath. The
burgess oath was the
oath which a town
burgess was
required to
swear on
taking office. The...
-
which had been p****ed in the
previous year
against the
lawfulness of the
Burgess Oath, Gib led the
protesting minority, who
broke off and
formed the Antiburgher...
- ****ociate (Antiburgher)
Synod on 4
August 1748 over the
question of the
Burgess Oath. He was
appointed Professor of
Divinity by the ****ociate (Burgher) Synod...
- Titans, and
because of this, to
honor her, Zeus
decreed that the
solemn oaths of the gods be
sworn by the
water of Styx.
According to the
usual account...
-
Divinity in
February 1742. He
joined with
those who were
against the
Burgess Oath, and was one of the
founders of the
General ****ociate
Synod 10 April...
-
maintained that it was, and the
second that it was not,
lawful to take the
burgess oath in the
Scottish towns.
Following the division,
there was a need for preachers...
- 1739 to the ****embly of the
Church of Scotland. As an
objector to the
Burgess Oath, he
became the
moderator of the ****ociate Presbytery's Synod, picking...
-
Retrieved 25
April 2023. McKerrow, John (1839). "Controversy
Respecting the
Burgess-
Oath".
History of the
Secession Church. Edinburgh:
William Oliphant and Son...
- The
Secessionists soon
split among themselves over the
issue of the
burgess oath,
which was
administered after the 1745
rebellion as an anti-Jacobite...
- mid-eighteenth century. The ****ociate
Presbytery then
split over the
Burgess oath imposed after the
Jacobite rebellion of 1745, with one
faction forming...