The Original Secession Magazine 1847-1890

The introductory address in the first volume of this magazine begins as follows:

"The Title of this Periodical is derived from the Synod of United Original Seceders. That body, take to themselves the name of Original Seceders, because they adhere to the same principles with Ebenezer Erskine, and those who, with him, seceded from the Established Church of Scotland in 1733. In the year 1747, the unhappy dispute, respecting the burgess oath, was the means of dividing the Secession into two parties, known by the name of Burghers and Anti-burghers. The one of these parties, in the end of last century (18th century), and the other, in the beginning of the present century (19th century), was again divided on the question of the magistrate's power, at which time the great body of seceders departed from the principles of the covenanted Church of Scotland, as stated in the Confession of Faith, and witnessed for in the original testimony emitted by the fathers of the secession. In 1842, the remnant of Burghers and Anti-burghers who still adhered to the original principles of the secession, were reunited, and took to themselves the name of United Original Seceders, to intimate, that they comprised all those who still adhered to the original principles of their seceding fathers.
Under the patronage and sanction of this body, the Original Secession Magazine is put forth. ... "
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The introduction to the first volume of the New Series begins as follows:

"It is cause of regret, that the manner in which the pages of the former series of the Magazine have been occupied for some time past, and the ordeal of trial and conflict to which the Original Secession Church has been lately subjected, render it necessary that this number should be more controversial in its matter than is desirable. Hereafter, however, it is designed that the didactic and the practical shall have a due share with the polemic in our pages. ..."

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