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John Abernethy was born at Coleraine, county Londonderry, where his father was Nonconformist minister, on the 19th of October 1680.
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John Abernethy was born at Coleraine, county Londonderry, where his father was Nonconformist minister, on the 19th of October 1680.
In his thirteenth year he entered the university of Glasgow, and on concluding his course there went on to Edinburgh, where his intellectual and social attainments gained hint a ready entrance' into the most cultured circles.
After obtaining his M. A. degree he studied theology at the University of Edinburgh.
Returning home he received licence to preach from his Presbytery before he was twenty-one.
After careful consideration he refused, and remained at Antrim. This refusal aroused disapproval; and a controversy followed, Abernethy standing firm for religious freedom and repudiating the ecclesiastical courts.
In 1701 he was urgently invited to accept charge of an important congregation in Antrim; and after an interval of two years, mostly spent in further study in Dublin, he was ordained there on the 8th of August 1703.
He received other calls during his stay at Antrim, where his work was greatly appreciated, but the synod allowed him to remain until 1717, when it decided to send him to Dublin.
After a short stay there he felt it his duty to return to Antrim.
In the face of a possible schism, he wrote his conciliatory Seasonable Advice to the Contending Parties in the North.
The schism occurred, nevertheless, when in 1726 the nonsubscribers were expelled from the church.
In 1717 he was invited to the congregation of Usher's Quay, Dublin, and contemporane-ously to what was called the Old Congregation of Belfast.
The synod assigned him to Dublin.
After careful consideration he declined to accede, and remained at Antrim.
This refusal was regarded then as ecclesiastical high-treason; and a controversy of the most intense and disproportionate character followed, Abernethy standing firm for religious freedom and repudiating the; sacerdotal assumptions of all ecclesiastical courts.
The controversy and quarrel bears the name of the two camps in the con-flict, the "Subscribers " and the " Non-subscribers. "
Much of what he contended for, and which the " Subscribers " opposed bitterly, has been silently granted in the lapse of time.
In 1726 the " Non-subscribers, " spite of an almost wofully pathetic pleading against separation by Abernethy, were cut off, with due ban and solemnity, from the Irish Presbyterian Church.
In 1730, although a "Non-subscriber, " he was invited to Wood Street, Dublin, whither he removed.
He and other Presbyterian ministers who sympathized with his views formed the Belfast Society, the creation of which divided the church in Ireland into two camps: subscribers and nonsubscribers.
In 1731 came on the greatest controversy in which Abernethy engaged, viz. in relation to the Test Act nominally, but practically on the entire question of tests and disabilities.
He was nearly a century in advance of his age.
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Returning to Coleraine, he continued his preparations for the ministry, and after a trip to Dublin he was called by three Presbyterian congregations to be their pastor.
His stand was:
against all laws that, upon account of mere differences of religious opinions and forms of worship, excluded men of integrity and ability from serving their country.
He was a member of the Belfast Society.
He was married to Susannah Jordan.
