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James Kerr (1847-1905)

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James Kerr (1847-1905)

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Born in the parish of Kilraughts, County Antrim, in 1847. Robert Kerr, his father, was an Ulster farmer. He attended the Academical Institution, Belfast, and then attended Queen’s College for three years. There he completed a course of studies that prepared him for the Theological Hall. He became proficient in mathematics, natural philosophy, Latin, Greek, German, French, English literature, logic and moral philosophy. To this, he added Hebrew and related theological studies at the Theological Hall. Mr. Kerr was licensed by the Northern Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, March 18, 1868, and was ordained minister in the Greenock congregation, Scotland, February 3, 1869. In 1881, he was installed as pastor of the Glasgow congregation. Here he laboured until the end of his life which was October 8, 1905. James Kerr was one of the last of the Reformed Presbyterians to exhibit with some consistency those principles of the Second Reformation upon which the Reformed Presbyterian Church was maintained in separate existence.

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A Third Reformation Necessary:
A Third Reformation Necessary:

1880-James Kerr.-A sermon calling for Christians to follow in the footsteps of the flock by adopting the piety, enlightened views and Christian patriotism of the Scottish martyrs.

Church and State: Three Lectures.
Church and State: Three Lectures.

1893-James Kerr.-A series of lectures examining three possible positions one may hold concerning the relation between church and state. First, the state might offer all religions equality which is a prescription for national disaster; second, the state might establish a church with its worship and discipline which is to offer dishonor to the church; third, the state might embrace the true religion and a Scriptural establish which is glorious.

The Scriptural Doctrines Violated by Ritualism.
The Scriptural Doctrines Violated by Ritualism.

1895-James Kerr.-An address given in 1894, at the National Protestant Congress, warning that ritualism in worship is contrary to the Regulative principle and subversive of Protestant doctrine.

The Attainments of the Church of the Second Reformation.
The Attainments of the Church of the Second Reformation.

1896-James Kerr.-An address before the First International Reformed Presbyterian Convention, in which the Reformed Church of Scotland, at the time of the Second Reformation, is presented as Biblical, Calvinistic, covenanting and established.

The Scottish Martyrs Defended:
The Scottish Martyrs Defended:

1902-James Kerr.-This 1902 pamphlet records a public meeting held in St. George’s Hall, Dumfries, featuring a lecture by Rev. James Kerr, D.D., defending the Scottish Covenanters against strictures made by Professor James Cooper during the recent dedication of a memorial to the Covenanting minister John Blackadder at Troqueer. Kerr’s discourse systematically refutes Cooper’s characterization of the Covenanters as fanatics, persecutors, and rebels, vindicating their resistance to Stuart despotism and their commitment to civil and religious liberty through detailed historical argument and appeals to original sources.

The Church Crisis in Scotland: Ecclesiastical, Theological, Parliamentary. A Lecture.
The Church Crisis in Scotland: Ecclesiastical, Theological, Parliamentary. A Lecture.

1905-James Kerr.-A Reformed Presbyterian assessment of the state of the remnant Free Church of Scotland, in 1905, shortly after the majority party united with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland, in 1900.

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