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DNB

 * Article title: Abernethy, John (1680-1740)
 * Author: Alexander Balloch
 * LEAD: ABERNETHY, JOHN (1680–1740), Irish dissenting clergyman, was born at Coleraine, co. Londonderry, Ulster, on 19 Oct. 1680. His father was then presbyterian minister there. His mother was a daughter of Walkinshaw of Walkinshaw, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2
 * LEAD: ABERNETHY, JOHN (1680–1740), Irish dissenting clergyman, was born at Coleraine, co. Londonderry, Ulster, on 19 Oct. 1680. His father was then presbyterian minister there. His mother was a daughter of Walkinshaw of Walkinshaw, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
 * Errata: Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.2

General

 * Life, by Duchal, prefixed to Sermons (1762)
 * Kippis's Biographia Britannica
 * Irish Presbyterian Church
 * Reid's Presbyterian Church in Ireland, iii. 234, seq.
 * MS. Diary, 6 vols. 4to.

Cites

 * A Diary—passages of which are given in Duchal's Life
 * a sermon on the text (Romans xiv. 5): ‘Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind

Works
"The works of Abernethy, other than his ecclesiastical writings, are still noticeable. The Biographia Britannica furnishes full details."


 * Seasonable Advice to the contending Parties in the North.
 * Discourses on the Divine Attributes
 * Posthumous Sermons (4 vols.)
 * Tracts (1751)