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William Craig Brownlee was born around 1784 the fifth child of James Brownlee, a farmer of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and his wife Margaret Craig.
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William Craig Brownlee was born around 1784 the fifth child of James Brownlee, a farmer of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and his wife Margaret Craig.
William Brownlee graduated and took his M. A. with honors at the University of Glasgow, studied theology under Rev. Dr. Bruce and was licensed by the Presbytery of Sterling in 1808.
He received the degree of D. D. by unanimous vote of the Senate of Glasgow University, December 6, 1824, in recognition of his Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers (1824).
Brownlee came to America at about this time and became pastor of the Associate Church, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. From 1813 to 1816, he was pastor of the Associate Scotch Church, Philadelphia. From 1816 to 1819, he had charge of the Queen's College (Rutgers) Academy, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
From 1819 to 1825 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and principal of a classical academy there.
In 1825 he became a professor of languages at Rutgers, and on June 18, 1826 he was installed associate pastor of the Collegiate Church, New York City, his particular charge being the Middle Church on Lafayette Place.
On September 23, 1843, while in Newburgh to fulfil a lecture engagement, he was stricken down with paralysis which incapacitated him for all further work. He lived however till February 10, 1860.
From 1826 to 1830 Brownlee edited the Magazine of the Reformed Dutch Church of America, writing many of its articles himself.
Brownlee's chief achievement was that he founded the Philoclean Society at Rutgers in 1825. He also succeeded editorial work editing the Magazine of the Reformed Dutch Church of America, writing many of its articles himself. He was also the author of several anti-Catholic works, such as Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy (1834), Popery an Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty (1836), The Doctrinal Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent (1836), Romanism in the Light of Prophecy and History: Its Final Downfall and Triumph of the Church of Christ (1854); a number of general religious and theological subjects; and is credited with a novel, The Whigs of Scotland: A Romance.
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Brownlee was an orthodox Calvinist. His sermons were doctrinal and scriptural and were characterized by a clear, finished, extemporaneous style, with much use of the imagination. He was an eloquent preacher with a strong Scotch brogue.
He was one of the earliest of the Protestant clergy of America to take a firm anti-Catholic stand and he at times incurred personal danger therefrom. He was also an uncompromising foe of Unitarianism and Universalism. All his convictions were strong and he held them with an unswerving tenacity inherited from generations of Covenanter ancestry. His scholarship was exact and his learning extensive.
Brownlee was a member of the Philoclean Society at Rutgers.
Brownlee had a fresh, open countenance and a kindly expression of his personality. There is a very impressive portrait of Brownlee in gown and bands, at the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth Ave. , New York.
In 1807, Brownlee married at Kilsyth, Scotland, Maria McDougall who lived till September 1849.
