Thomas Erskine
Thomas Erskine
Thomas Erskine of Linlathenwas a Scottish advocate and lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century. With his friend the Reverend John McLeod Campbell he attempted a revision of Calvinism...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth13 October 1788
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Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe.
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Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part
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In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
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I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.