Patrick Adair’s “A True Narrative”
A True Narrative
or The Rise and Progress
of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland
1623–1670
The Rev. Patrick Adair.
xliii + 334pp, h/b in dark blue cloth + d/w
Patrick Adair was born in 1624 in Galloway, Scotland and educated at the universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow. Ordained at Cairncastle, Co. Antrim he later became minister of the Presbyterian congregation in Belfast. He was one of the leaders of Irish Presbyterianism in the seven-teenth century and its first historian. He died in 1694.
This edition includes a new General Introduction by the Rev Joseph Thompson, PhD, DD.
Joseph Thompson is a Vice President and a former Joint Secretary of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland. He is Editor of the Society's Bulletin and has written the story of the Society, Times Passing, published in 2007, and several congregational histories.
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