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Anonymous essays entitled ‘An Essay upon the connection between true faith in the Gospel and holiness in heart and life’ and ‘An essay on the nature and necessity of regeneration’
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Identifier: MS ESS
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Manuscript notebook containing two essays, entitled 'An essay upon the connection between true faith in the Gospel and holiness in heart and life' and 'An essay on the nature and necessity of regeneration'.
The essays are written in ink, and annotated in pencil by a later hand. Essays were originally paginated, but some numbers are trimmed off.
Biblical texts: Titus 2, 3 and 5
Dates:
c.1789
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Lectures by Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)
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Identifier: MS DODD
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Manuscript copy of 'Lectures of Pneumatology, Ethicks, and Theology. In Ten Parts'. Northampton, 1740.
Written mostly in shorthand.
Printed edition published in London, 1763.
From the General Assembly Library.
Front flyleaf includes a note of ownership, 'Caleb Evans, Sept. 1st. 1817'.
Dates:
1740
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870)
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Identifier: MS ERS T
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Proof copy of printed letters relating to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870). Contains pencil annotations instructing to "preserve", "omitt", "begin here", etc., for each letter. Contains less content than William Hanna's 1878 published edition, including letters with Thomas Chalmers, the portrait (frontispiece), the preface, and the expository writing providing context to each letter. However, some letters within this volume are omitted from the published version - including a number...
Dates:
1877-1878
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Notebooks of James Erskine (1730-1761), Burgher minister at Stirling
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Identifier: MS ERS J1
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Two notebooks, written almost entirely in shorthand but with some titles in English and Latin. Both bear the former shelfmark 'MH.2/7'MS ERS J1.1 - 1746. Containing a note on the front board 'James Erskine, his Book. February 26 1746. Lectures and Sermons by my Father [Ralph Erskine]'. Some slips and additions pinned in place.MS ERS J1.2 - 1748. Front board has an extended index in Latin, but rest of the volume is shorthand. Back board has the name 'R. Meikljohn' in a...
Dates:
c.1746-c.1748
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Ebenezer Erskine (1680-1754)
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Identifier: MS ERS E
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Collection belonging to Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, 1680-1754.1. Letter of Ebenezer Erskine, to Mr Mackstoun, Portmoak. 2 November 1726. Glazed and framed, within a 20 x 23cm wooden frame.2. Notebook dated 1694-1696 and 1697 on cover. A note on the inside back cover identifies the handwriting as Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine. Bears signature of Donald Fraser, Burgher Minister at Kennoway, 17 September 1839.3. Notebook of shorthand, with some English headings....
Dates:
c.1694-1742
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Henry Barker (d. 1948)
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Identifier: GD50
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a dissertation on the problem of theological method in its bearing on philosophy; items on the connection between ethical theory and a religious view of the world, and the science of ethics from the standpoint of realism; material on philosophy and theology, Ritschlian theology, the religious consciousness, faith, and the nature and origin of Christian experience; an unpublished article on anthropomorphism; material on the moral teaching of the Gospels; Kemp...
Dates:
1899-1935
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Henry Erskine (1720-1754)
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Identifier: MS ERS H4
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Papers of Henry Erskine, (1720-54), Burgher Minister at Falkirk, split into three sections.1. Item identifier: MS ERS H 4.Vellum notebook, with a note on the cover dating it to 1737-46 and belonging to Rev. Henry Erskine and Rev. John Erskine. Contains mathematical diagrams and formulae, and sermons preached by others - including Ralph Erskine. Text is mostly in shorthand, with an additional note by "J. M. W., 1898" loosely inserted.2. Item identifiers: MS...
Dates:
c.1733-1752
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of James Wodrow (1637-1707), Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow
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Identifier: MS WOD2
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Volume entitled 'Orationes, praelectiones et methodus' [lectures and sermons] containing individual texts in Latin, with some notes in English.
Dates:
1692-1694
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Prof Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1835-1908)
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Identifier: MS CHAR 1
Scope and Contents
1.1 Canonicity; a collection of early testamonies to the canonical books of the New Testament based on Kirchhofer's 'Quellensammlung'. pp. 209-484. 1880. Manuscript notes by Charteris interleaved.1.2 Notebook of lectures on Galacians. 1885-86.1.3 Lecture book on prophecy in the Old Testament. 1896-97.1.4 Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and obituary notices. Address by Dr. I. Mitford Mitchell at the dedication of the Charteris Memorial Church [Edinburgh],...
Dates:
1880-1912
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), minister of Eastwood
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Identifier: MS WOD3
Scope and Contents
The material comprises probatory discourses, sermons, and other theological writings.
MS WOD3/1 Probatory discourses [in English and Latin] RW. 8°. No pagination. 19 discourses, 1679-1703, some autographed. No.19 incomplete. No. 9 was removed 6 April and presented to President Woodrow Wilson during his visit to the Peace Conference 1919. From General Assembly Library.
MS WOD3/2...
Dates:
c.1640-c.1710
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections