The Presbyterian covenanter dfended [sic] in his political principles; and the impostor convicted. Being a defence of Sacred Scriptures, law of God and Christian liberty, particularly of the Presbyterian covenanters ... from the injurious claims and imputations of the Reformed Presbytery, and of an unscriptural invective ... by John Thorburn ... entituled, Vindiciae magistratus. By John Thomson, ...
Thomson, John,active 1754-1799.
Glasgow : printed by Alexander Adam for the author, and sold by him and the booksellers of Glasgow and Edinburgh,
1774.
Thomson, who was now minister at Kirkintilloch in the United Presbyterian Church, had already, during his ministry in Ireland at Donaghclony, been involved in a similar controversy with Alexander Colvill.
Thorburn was the Reformed Presbyterian minister of Pentland.
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