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George Paxton (1762-1837).

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George Paxton (1762-1837).

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George Paxton was a Scottish Secession minister, poet, and theologian born at Dalgourie, East Lothian, on 2 April 1762. After an incomplete carpentry apprenticeship, he studied at Edinburgh University and under Rev. William Moncrieff in Alloa, where he embraced Seceder principles. Ordained in 1789 as minister of Kilmaurs and Stewarton, poor health forced him to abandon the charge around 1800. In 1807 he was appointed professor of divinity by the New Licht Anti-Burgher General Associate Synod. When that body voted to unite with the New Licht Burghers in 1820 to form the United Secession Church, Paxton dissented and was compelled to resign his chair. He then helped form the “Synod of Protesters” in 1821, built a new church on Infirmary Street in Edinburgh, and in 1827 joined with Thomas M’Crie the Elder’s Auld Licht Anti-Burghers to create the Associate Synod of Original Seceders, which restored him to his divinity professorship. He died in Edinburgh in 1837, aged 75, and was buried at St Cuthbert’s Churchyard.

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An Inquiry into the Obligation of Religious Covenants Upon Posterity.
An Inquiry into the Obligation of Religious Covenants Upon Posterity.

1801-George Paxton.-This theological treatise vigorously defends the binding obligation of Scotland’s National Covenant (1638) and Solemn League and Covenant (1643) against various objections. Systematically addressing charges of political motivation, intolerance, enthusiasm, illegality, and improper civil enforcement, the author argues from Scripture and history that these covenants—despite imperfections in their form and administration—impose enduring moral and religious obligations upon posterity. The work concludes with urgent addresses to the British Churches, warning of divine judgment for their apostasy from these sacred engagements, and to the Secession Church, cautioning against spiritual decline and urging a return to the covenant-renovating zeal of their fathers.