Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The first persons who attached themselves to him were a few illiterate fishermen of Galilee, and so far from disdaining their society and friendship, he received them graciously, taught them with unwearied patience, put up with all their ignorance, and prejudices, and stupidity, and perverseness, and after he had opened their understandings to know, and inclined their hearts to love the truth, left them behind him on the earth as his Apostles, and by their instrumentality established Christianity in the world.
William Nixon, ‘The Invitations of the Gospel’ in The Free Church Pulpit; Consisting of Discourses by the Most Eminent divines of the Free Church of Scotland. Vol. I. (New York: Robert Carter, 1848), p. 530.
William Nixon, ‘The Invitations of the Gospel’ in The Free Church Pulpit; Consisting of Discourses by the Most Eminent divines of the Free Church of Scotland. Vol. I. (New York: Robert Carter, 1848), p. 530.