MR. THOMAS HALYBURTON, THE SECOND EDITΙΟΝ. To which is prefixed, A short Account of the AUTHOR'S Life. GLASGOW: Printed by ROBERT URIE, For JAMES MEUROS, Bookseller in Kilmarnock. M DCC LI. D. ACCOUNT OF THE Birth, Parentage, and Character of thereverend Mr. THOMAS HALYBURTON, with fome other Circumstances of his Life, and last Words on his Death-Bed. M R. THOMAS HALYBURTON, profeffor of divinity in the New College of St. Andrew's, was born at Duplin, in the parish of Aberdalgy, Decem. 25th, 1674, of worthy and godly parents, Mr. George Halyburton, and Margaret Playfere. His father was defcended of the family of Pitcur, in the county of Angus; and was minifter of the parish of Aberdalgy in the Presbytery of Perth, out of which he was ejected by the then government, in the year 1662, as about 300 more ministers were also, summarly without any legal process, fimply for non-conformity to Prelacy. Mr. George Halyburton, who was then bishop of Dunkeld, and had been a zealous covenanter, fuddenly became so forward for the national defection, and so cruel a persecutor of his once fellow-presbyters, that he would not spare him more than others, tho he was his near kinsman, but turned him out of his charge: and yet that prelate was scarce well warm in his nest, when the Lord Smote 22 |