THE LIFE

OF THE

REV. JOHN BROWN,

SOMETIME MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN

WAMPHRAY;

CONTAINING MANY OF HIS INTERESTING

LETTERS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED,

WITH

ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES,

AND A

HISTORICAL APPENDIX;

EXHIBITING A FULL VIEW OF THE

TIMES AND SUFFERINGS OF THE COVENANTERS.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS LOCKERBY,

MINISTER OF CADDER.

EDINBURGH :

THORNTON & COLLIE, ST. DAVID STREET.

1839.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. I. The time of his birth, and the place where he was born;

the condition of his parents; the school where he received the

rudiments of learning, and the schoolmaster by whom he was

instructed; the time when he entered College; the University

which he attended, and the professors under whom he studied;

the time when he received license to preach the gospel, and the

presbytery by whom he was licensed; the time when he was

settled in Wamphray, and the manner in which he discharged

his ministerial duties; the time when, and reasons for which he

was deprived of his charge, and banished from his native

country,

page 1

CHAP. II. The time when he arrived in Holland, with an account

of some of his cotemporaries and fellow-exiles with whom he

was intimately acquainted and closely connected, and brief

notices of some others connected with, and mentioned by

them,

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page 41

CHAP. III. The time he remained in Holland, and elsewhere on the

Continent; the manner in which he was employed, the means by

which he was supported, and the character he maintained; the

time, the place, and the manner of his death,

page 78

CHAP. IV.—A list of his Publications, and some account of their

merits, by comparison of extracts from one of his cotemporaries,

and recommendations of some of them by others,

NOTES,

page 194

Consisting chiefly of illustrations of his Letters, founded mainly upon

the events of the times in which our lot is cast, and in which,

had he been alive, he would have taken a deep interest, page 219

APPENDIX,

Containing a Short Account of Indulgences, page 359; and a Narra-

tive of some Events during the time which he lived, and ex-

tending to the greater part of the Stuart Dynasty,

page 364

TO THE

PARISHIONERS OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT AND VICINITY, Where Mr Brown was probably born and certainly reared,

AND THE PARISHIONERS OF WAMPHRAY,

Where he long and faithfully laboured;

ALSO OF THE ADJACENT PARISHES OF

MOFFAT, KIRKPATRICK-JUXTA, JOHNSTON, APPLEGARTH, ESKDALEMUIR, ETTRICK, AND HUTTON, Where it is probable he frequently assisted;

TO THE

INHABITANTS OF THE OTHER PARISHES WHERE HIS FELLOW EXILES OFFICIATED;

TO THOSE IN THE

OTHER PARISHES WHOSE MINISTERS ARE HERE INCIDENTALLY MENTIONED;

AND

To all in every Parish and Country,

Who cherish the Principles, entertain the Hopes, and would In similar circumstances, pursue the conduct for which he suffered,

THIS LITTLE WORK

IS

Dedicated,

BY

THE AUTHOR.