The grave of Adam Gib, Greyfriars KirkyardMemorial to Rev Adam Gib, from Nicolson Street Church, National Museum of Scotland
Adam Gib (15 April 1714 – 14 June 1788) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church.[1] He reportedly wrote his first covenant with God in the blood of his own veins.[2] Gib was born in the parish of Muckhart, in southern Perthshire on 15 April 1714.[3]
He studied literature and theology at the University of Edinburgh and at Perth, and was licensed as a preacher in 1740. His eldest brother being a prodigal son, Adam succeeded to the paternal estate, but burned the will when his brother promised to reform. In 1741 he was ordained minister of the large Secession congregation of Bristo Street, Edinburgh. In 1745 he was almost the only Edinburgh minister who continued to preach against rebellion while the troops of Bonnie Prince Charlie were occupying the town. When, in 1747, the Associate Synod, by a narrow majority, decided not to give full immediate effect to a judgment which had been passed in the previous year against the lawfulness of the Burgess Oath, Gib led the protesting minority, who broke off and formed the Antiburgher Synod (10 April) in his own house in Edinburgh.[3]
It was chiefly through Gib's influence that the Antiburghers decided, at subsequent meetings, to summon to the bar their Burgher brethren, and to depose and excommunicate them for contumacy. Gib's action in forming the Antiburgher Synod led, after prolonged litigation, to his exclusion from the building in Bristo Street where his congregation had met. In 1765 he made his response to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which had stigmatized the Secession as threatening the peace of the country. From 1753 till within a short period of his death, he preached regularly in Nicolson Street Church, which was constantly filled with an audience of two thousand persons. His dogmatic and fearless attitude in controversy earned for him the nickname Pope Gib.[3]
He died on 14 June 1788 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh on 18 June.[4][5] The grave lies on the south-facing section of the western wall within the original graveyard. He is buried with his wife Emilia MacGeorge and his daughters.[3]
AdamGib (15 April 1714 – 14 June 1788) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly...
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Presbytery in 1738 and constructed their own church at Bristo in 1741 with AdamGib as its first minister. The church played a prominent role in the history...
in a "romantic, moonlit marriage". In 1788 he was asked to replace Rev AdamGib at the Anti-burgher church in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, but did not accept...
1697 for "contumacy" (disobedience). He was succeeded by Rev John Gib (father of AdamGib). Andrew Ure served 1703 to 1717 before translating to Fossoway...
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Secession Church, of AdamGib, and a liberal in politics. Pillans was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, under Alexander Adam, of whom he subsequently...
naturalist (b. 1723) May 11 – Dorothea Biehl, Danish writer (b. 1731) June 14 – AdamGib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714) June 21 – Johann Georg Hamann, German...
on 23 October 1698 and was buried at sea en route to Darien. John Gib, (not AdamGib's father) was minister of Cleish from 1701 to 1741. His successor,...
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taken, but they were excommunicated by an "anti-burgher" faction, led by AdamGib, who established a separate General Associate Synod. In the 1790s the Seceders...
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