Adam Gib on “The Breach” in the Scottish Reformed Presbytery in 1753

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The below extract from the Antiburgher Seceder, Adam Gib relates to "The Breach" among the Reformed Presbyterians over certain sentiments relating to the atonement in James Fraser of Brea's book A Treatise on Justifying Faith. Given that Fraser was an early Covenanter, the controversy over his posthumously published book in relation to the atonement raises many interesting questions concerning Hypothetical Universalism in the Scottish Reformed Church. Gib's assessment of the dissentient body was less than irenic:

These who have first made an open appearance under the banner of what is called Brae’s scheme, are a couple of novices who (with a pair of sham-elders) arrogated the name of The Reformed Presbytery; and though there has been too much of Arminianism in church-judicatures before, yet they are the first Arminian judicature, wholly constituted on such a footing ...

For more see, Adam Gib on “The Breach” in the Scottish Reformed Presbytery in 1753.
 
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