Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The Moderator, HUGH KENNEDY, first attracts our notice. He is a venerable man, selected for the honourable place he occupies from respect to his great age and his tried attachment to the cause of Presbytery. So keen was his opposition to Prelacy, that the Jacobites had nicknamed him Bitter-Beard. His brethren, however, who knew him better, assure us that those who gave him such a name “mistook the temper of the man.” And how often do we find similar misapprehensions of public men entertained by those who know them only as opponents, or have seen them only amidst “the strife of tongues!” ...
For more, see Thomas McCrie the younger on the characters of the 1690 Scottish General Assembly.
For more, see Thomas McCrie the younger on the characters of the 1690 Scottish General Assembly.