John Dick  1764-1833






































John Dick was a Scottish minister and theological writer.
In politics Dick sympathised with the reforming party, and he objected to church establishments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dick_(minister)

Biographical Sketch from the Dictionary of National Biography

Memoir of Dr. Dick, by his son, Andrew Coventry Dick, Prefixed to "Lectures in Theology".

Biographical Sketch at Friends of Glasgow Necropolis web site






From the Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome - 1906

Lectures on Theology, Volume 1 - 1850 - Dick, John (1764-1833), Dick, Andrew Coventry
Robert Shaw refers to these lectures frequently in his commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Lectures on Theology, Volume 2  - 1850 - Dick, John (1764-1833), Dick, Andrew Coventry
Robert Shaw refers to these lectures frequently in his commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith.

Lectures on Theology, Volumes 1 and 2 (in one PDF) - 1851 - Dick, John (1764-1833)

Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles - 1857 - Dick, John (1764-1833)
     1850 Edition
     1844 Edition
     1805 Edition (from the library of Samuel Miller)

An Essay on the Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments - 1811 - Dick, John (1764-1833)
In 1800 he published an ‘Essay on the Inspiration of the Scriptures,’ which gave him considerable standing as a theological writer. The occasion of this publication was, that in a dispute in the Secession church regarding the descending obligation of the Scottish covenants, it had been affirmed that those who were not impressed by arguments in its favour from the Old Testament, could not believe in the inspiration of the Old Testament books. Dick wrote his book to rebut this argument. The position assumed in it is thus stated by his biographer: ‘He held the doctrine of plenary inspiration; i.e. that all parts of scripture were written by persons, moved, directed and assisted by the Holy Spirit, his assistance extending to the words as well as to the ideas. But under the term ‘inspiration’ he included several kinds or degrees of supernatural influence, holding that sometimes a larger and sometimes a smaller degree of inspiration was necessary to the composition of the books, according to the previous state of the minds of the writers and the matter of their writings.’

Sermons - 1816 - Dick, John (1764-1833)
Sermon 1 - On the Divinity of the Messiah (page 1)
Sermon 2 - On the Humiliation of the Messiah (page 32)
Sermon 3 - On the Immutability of Jesus Christ and His Religion (page 59)
Sermon 4 - On the Unrivalled Excellence of Jesus Christ as a Teacher (page 89)
Sermon 5 - On the Contemplation of the Visible Heavens (page 119)
Sermon 6 - On the Contemplation of Invisible Things (page 146)
Sermon 7 - On Humility (page 175)
Sermon 8 - On a Christian Example (page 200)
Sermon 9 - On the Easy Yoke of Christ (page 226)
Sermon 10 - On the Sovereignty of God in the Dispensation of Grace, Part 1 (page 254)
Sermon 11 - On the Sovereignty of God in the Dispensation of Grace, Part 2 (page 278)
Sermon 12 - On the Purification of the Young (page 307)
Sermon 13 - On Prayer for Our Christian Friends in Affliction (page 332)
Sermon 14 - On Submission to the Will of God (page 357)
Sermon 15 - On the Wish of Balaam (page 383)
Sermon 16 - On the Shortness of Human Life (page 405)
Sermon 17 - On the Resurrection of the Saints (page 432)

Confessions of Faith shown to be necessary, and the duty of churches with respect to them explained In a Sermon, Preached in the Meeting-house of Bristo-Street, at the Opening of the Associate Synod, April 26, 1796. - 1796 - Dick, John (1764-1833)
In 1796, when objection had been taken by several ministers in his church to the teaching of the confession of faith on the duty of the civil magistrate to the church, he preached and published a sermon entitled ‘Confessions of Faith shown to be necessary, and the duty of churches with respect to them explained.’ He vindicated the use of confessions, but inculcated the duty of the church to be tolerant of minor disagreements. In 1799 this controversy was ended by the synod enacting a preamble to the confession, declaring that the church required no assent to anything which favoured the principle of compulsory measures in religion. A minority dissented from this finding, and, withdrawing from their brethren, formed a new body entitled ‘The Original Associate Synod.’

Sermon: Conduct and Doom of False Teachers - 1788
Against Unitarianism - In 1788, when William M'Gill of Ayr shook the Protestant community of Scotland by an essay on the death of Christ, of Unitarian tendencies, Dick published this sermon.