A letter from a blacksmith, : to the ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland. In which the manner of public worship in that church is considered; its inconveniencies and defects pointed out; and methods for removing them humbly proposed..
A. T.(Blacksmith)
Dublin: : Printed by George Faulkner in Essex-Street,,
M. DCC. LIX. [1759]
Signed at end: A. T. Blacksmith. Variously attributed to John Witherspoon and Henry Home, Lord Kames.
Opposes popular festivals associated with communion and open air preaching, and the practice of extempore prayer by which, he claims, congregations are associated with the conflicting theological opinions of ministers without knowledge or understanding of their implications. The work was requently reprinted for almost a century.
Includes bibliographical references.
ESTC
Church of Scotland
Church of Scotland
Ireland Dublin.