| Creator Name | Thomas Boston (1677 - 1732), preacher at Ettrick parish, Selkirkshire
Reverend James Fisher (1697 - 1775), Professor of Divinity at the Associate Burgher college, Glasgow
Reverend James Brown (1722 - 1787), Associate Burgher minister in Haddington, East Lothian. |
| Administrative History | Following the union of the United Presbyterian Church with the Free Church in 1900, the Brown-Lindsay Library in the United Presbyterian College Library, Edinburgh, was dispersed amongst the Free Church Colleges in Aberdeen (now Christ's College), in Edinburgh (New College) and Glasgow (Trinity College). At the formation of the United Presbyterian Church in 1847, the Rev. John Brown, D.D. (1784-1858) and the Rev. William Lindsay, D.D. (1802-1866) had been among the founding members of its College and its first two professors of Exegetical Theology. In 1986 Christ's College deposited in the University of Aberdeen volumes of pamphlets and the thirteen volumes of manuscript sermons and other devotional works, many of them by influential early Seceders, listed here.
Thomas Boston (1677 - 1732), preacher at Ettrick parish, Selkirkshire
Reverend James Fisher (1697 - 1775), Professor of Divinity at the Associate Burgher college, Glasgow
Reverend James Brown (1722 - 1787), Associate Burgher minister in Haddington, East Lothian. |
| Custodial History | The volumes were held by Christ's College, Aberdeen, previously the Free Church College but now part of Aberdeen University. |
| Description | Papers of Thomas Boston, including his own sermons, notes of the sermons of others, notes of devotional and theological nature, etc., 1699 - 1739; Notes on sermons, partly in shorthand, 1727 - 1739, 1747 - 1767; Sermons by James Fisher, 1730 - 1749; Papers of John Brown, including skeletons of sermons, undated; Lecture notes on logic taken by James C. Brown from lectures by Professor James Finlayson, Edinburgh, 1802; Lecture notes on logic taken by James McCundie form lectures by Professor James Buchanan, New College, Edinburgh, 1851. |