| Administrative History | Robert Baillie (c. 1672-1726), said to be a cadet of Lamington (Lanarkshire), was educated at the University of Glasgow and licensed and ordained to the charge of Lamington in 1693. He acted as a supply minister at Inverness at the request of the General Assembly from 22 May to 14 August 1698. After declining a call to Keith in 1699 he was again sent up to Inverness by the General Assembly and preached there for 23 weeks from 11 October 1700 to 23 March 1701 before returning to Lamington. He was finally transferred to the Inverness second charge by a commission of the General Assembly in 1701, and 'returned to that brugh to travel in the work of the gospel Among the English people' and began his public work there. He received calls to churches in Gladsmuir (East Lothian), London and Rotterdam between 1710 and 1714, when the then moderator, William Mitchell, was instructed to inform Rotterdam that Baillie could not be spared from Inverness, and in 1712 he accompanied Carstares and Blackwell to London to watch over Church Patronage interests. In 1724 he was called again to Rotterdam, but refused to leave Scotland. He died at Inverness on 11 February 1726. |
| Source | The volume has a King's College Library bookplate, but the precise date of acquisition is uncertain and no particulars of provenance are included in the relevant entry, dated September 1912, in the University Library's Accessions Book.
Robert Baillie was succeeded in his charge at Inverness in 1727 by Alexander Fraser (d. 1750), MA, King's College, 4 July 1695, who married Baillie's stepdaughter, Isobel M'Bean, in 1706. Her father, Angus M'Bean, was minister of the first charge at Inverness from 1683 to 1687 and graduated at King's College on 13 July 1675. This may explain why the volume was deposited in or acquired by the Library. |
| Description | Volume of notes of sermons preached at Inverness by Robert Baillie (c. 1672-1726). Texts and dates are given for sermons or series of sermons preached at Inverness between 22 May 1698 and 27 February 1704, followed by detailed notes of others given there between 25 May 1704 and 25 March 1705, two preached in Edinburgh and Lamington in 1705 and part of another given at Inverness in 1711. It appeared to be Baillie's practice to preach from the same text, or portions of it, on successive Sundays. The contents include:
flyleaf: torn out; portion remains.
folio 1: torn out; portion remains.
List of texts upon which Robert Baillie preached 43 sermons in all during that period at Inverness; with autobiographical comment. (folio 2 recto)
22 May 1698 - 24 March 1701
Further autobiographical information; list of dates and texts of 52 sermons then preached at Inverness. (folio 2 verso)
'29' February 1703 - 27 February 1704
Blank (folio 3)
Title: 'Notes of sermons preached at Inverness In the year 1704 by Mr Ro[ber]t Baillie.' (folio 4 recto)
1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness, 'being a fast day - Appointed by the general Assembly'; text: Deut. xxxii. 32; ends with lists of headings and scriptural references. (folios 4 - 6 recto)
[Thursday] 25 May 1704
Sermon, preached at Edinburgh; text: Isa. xliii.5; for other sermons preached in 1705 see folios 145 - 185. (folios 6 recto - 8 recto)
[Sunday] 15 April 1705
Blank (folios 8 verso - 9 verso)
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: Rom. vi. 23, 'for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord'; this is the first of a series of ten sermons on the whole or parts of this text. (folios 10 recto - 14 recto)
[Sunday] 28 May 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 14 recto - 19 recto)
4 June 1704
Sermon, as above: text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 19 verso - 22 recto)
11 June 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 22 recto - 28 recto)
19[rectius 18 if Sun.] June 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 28 verso - 33 recto)
25 June 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 33 verso - 37 recto)
2 July 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23 [second half]...'the gift of God...' (folios 37 verso - 43 recto)
9 July 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 43 verso - 49 verso)
16 July 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom. vi.23. (folios 50 recto - 56 recto)
23 July 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Rom.vi.23. (folios 56 recto - 62 recto)
30 July 1704
Sermon, [the first of a series of five], preached at Inverness; text: Acts xiii.46, 'Then Paul and barnabas waxed bold and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; But seeing ye put it from yow and judge your selves unworthy of ever'Lasting life, Lo, we turn to the gentiles. (folios 62 verso - 71 verso)
6 August 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Acts xiii. 46. (folios 71 verso - 76 recto)
13 August 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Acts xiii. 46. (folios 76 verso - 83 verso)
20 August 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Acts xiii. 46. (folios 83 verso - 87 verso)
27 August 1704
Sermon, as above; text: Acts xiii. 46. (folios 87 verso - 92 verso)
3 September 1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: Ps. xxxix.1. (folios 93 recto - 98 recto)
10 September 1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: Ps. xxxix.1. (folios 98 verso - 104 recto)
17 September 1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: i. Cor. xv.58. (folio 104)
24 September 1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: i. Cor. xv.58; ends: 'This much for the forenoon Mr ferguson Minister in Braemar preached afternoon, Rev. i.1. Next Thursday being a thanks giving pass the next sermon and then you will find what further follows upon this text' (folios 104 verso - 105 recto)
1 October 1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness, 'being thursday appointed by church and state as a day of solemn thanksgiving to God for the victory obtained by the allys over the french and bavarian Armies upon the danube at Hochold upon the 13 August last'; text: Isa. x.24-t27. (folios 105 verso - 117 verso)
[Thursday] 5 October 1704
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: i. Cor. xv. 58. (folios 118 recto - 120 recto)
[Sunday] 8 October 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. xv. 58. (folios 120 verso - 124 verso)
15 October 1704
Sermon [the first of a series of [fourteen], preached at Inverness; text: i. Cor. v.7, 'purge out therefor the old Leaven that ye may become a New lump as ye are unleavened, for even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us'. (folios 124 verso - 125 recto)
22 October 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 125 verso - 126 recto)
29 October 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v'.7. (folio 126 verso)
5 November 1704
Sermon, as above; incomplete, first three lines only of notes; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folio 126 verso)
12 November 1704
Blank (folio 127 recto)
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 127 verso - 128 recto)
19 November 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 128 verso - 131 recto)
26 November 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7; from this date on second part of text 'for even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us'. (folios 131 verso - 134 recto)
3 December 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 134 recto - 136 recto)
10 December 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 136 recto - 139 verso)
17 December 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 140 - 142 recto)
24 December 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 142 verso - 144 verso)
31 December 1704
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 145 recto - 149 recto)
7 January 1705
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 149 recto - 152 recto)
14 January 1705
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. v.7. (folios 152 recto - 156 recto)
21 January 1705
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: Isa. liii. 11; 'He shall see of the travel of his soul and be satisfied' (folios 156 recto - 159 recto)
28 January 1705
Sermon, no place of preaching given; text: Rev. i. 18. (folios 159 recto - 162 recto)
not dated [4 February 1705]
Sermon, no place of preaching given; text: Rev. i. 18. (folios 162 verso - 166 recto)
11 February 1705
Sermon, preached at Inverness; text: i. Cor. i. 23-24. (folios 166 verso - 170 recto)
18 February 1705
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. 23-24. (folios 170 verso - 172 verso)
25 February 1705
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. 24. (folios 172 verso - 174 recto)
4 March 1705
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. 24. (folios 174 verso - 177 verso)
11 March 1705
Sermon, as above, 'after noon'; text: i. Cor. i. 24, 'Christ...the wisdom of God'. (folios 178 recto - 179 verso)
18 March 1705
Sermon, as above; text: i. Cor. i.24. [15 April 1705, See folios 6 verso - 8 recto] (folios 180 - 184)
25 March 1705
Sermon, preached at Lamington; text: Gen. xxii.14. (folio 185)
[Sunday] 29 April 1705
Sermon, preached at Inverness; incomplete, headings only; text: Exod. xx.6. (folio 185 verso)
[Sunday] 25 February 1711
folios 186 - 187: torn out; traces remain.
Blank (folio 188 recto)
Inscribed: 'Some thoughts from' I. John iii.16-19; 'Invincibles' and ‘Inverness 1803' are written in other hands and there are marks of letters having been embossed with stamps, including J M K G D. (folio 188 verso) |