5o HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 



Account of As a member of the Church of Scotland. Dr LOTHIAN fol- 



Dr Lothian. 



lowed, with firmnefs, that courfe of conduct which feemed to 

 him to be the moft proper. And the appearances which he 

 made in the Ecclefiaftical Courts exhibited fuch marks of found 

 underflanding, and fuch firmnefs of mind, as procured him 

 great refpecl. Indeed, his contemporaries and younger bre- 

 thren, among whom his acquaintance was very extenfive, al- 

 ways repofed the higheft confidence in his judgment, his ho- 

 nour and his integrity, and fpoke in the ftrongeft terms of the 

 fincerity and warmth of his friendfhip. 



WHEN this Society was honoured with a Royal Charter of 

 Incorporation, Dr LOTHIAN was naturally thought of as a pro- 

 per perfon to be inrolled among the number of its Members. 

 But an early death has deprived us of the advantage of his la- 

 bours. 



BESIDES the above mentioned Hiftory, he publimed two Ser- 

 mons, which are to be found in the fecond volume of a Collec- 

 tion, entitled, The Scotch Preacher, printed at Edinburgh in the 

 year 1776. 



II. ACCOUNT 



