AND LITERARY MEMORIALS OF Presbyterianism in Ireland. (1731-1800.) SECOND SERIES. BY THOMAS WITHEROW, PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN MAGEE COLLEGE, LONDONDERRY. "Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of "Et quidem bonos viros in hac terra fuisse non dubito, signa tamen atque virtutes suppressa, ut utrumne sint facta nesciamus."-- GREGORII DIALOGI, lib. i. PREFACE. IN the present volume the reader will notice some deviation from the original plan. That plan was to give a distinct chapter to each writer, without regard to the importance of the work which he published, or to the position which he filled. This was found on experience to be attended with some practical disadvantage. But in the present volume, to each of the more prominent writers only a separate chapter is given, while all the others are grouped together in a single chapter at the end. By this means space is economised, and a longer period of time is comprehended in the volume. In the years 1731-1800, over which this volume extends, no author of the Synod of Ulster, the Secession Synod, or the Reformed Presbyterian Synod, and no works of such an author, so far as known, have been passed over without some notice; though the notice given to many of them is briefer and more meagre than we could have wished. If any such name or any |