GARDEN, George Minister of Forgue parish, then of St Machar, Reverend Dr 1
- Born: 1649 2
- Died: 31 January 1733 2
User ID: D575.
General Notes:
(at Forgue in 1677)
"George Garden, born 1649, son of Alexander G., min. of Forgue; educated at King's College; M.A. (1666); app. Regent there in 1673; adm. to Forgue in 1677; trans, to St Machar 29th June 1679; trans, and inst. 22nd Nov. 1683; D.D.; deprived by Privy Council in 1692 for not praying for William and Mary; dep. by General Assembly 5th March 1701 for Bourignonism; died 31st Jan. 1733. He is said to have been an ingenious naturalist. Publications; 'Extract of a Letter from Aberdeen concerning a man of a strange imitating nature, etc.'; (Phil. Trans. No. 134, 23rd April 1677); Queries and Protestations of the Scots Episcopal Clergy (London, 1694); Preface and Translation of Bourignon's Light of the World (London, 1696); An Apology for Madame Antonia Bourignon (London, 1699); Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. Henry Scougal, M.A. (Scougal s Life of God in the Soul of Man) (Edinburgh, 1747); 'On Generation'; (Trans. Roy. Soc., London, xvi.); Life of the Rev. John Forbes of Corse ('Opera Omnia Jo. Forbesii' Amsterdam, 1702-3) ; The Case of the Episcopal Clergy truly represented (London, 1689; Edinburgh, 1703, 1704, 1705). [Aberdeen Tests.;Tombst.; Dict. Nat. Biog.]"
(at St Machar in 1679)
"George Garden, M.A.; trans, from Forgue and inst. 29th June 1679; trans, to Second Charge, Aberdeen, 22nd Nov. 1683."
both from Fasti Ecclesiae
Note:
Both George Garden and his brother, James Garden, began their professional lives as clergy in the reformed Church of Scotland.
After 1688 they moved farther and farther away from the religious mainstream, when, following the Glorious Revolution, Presbyterianism became firmly established in Scotland, and Episcopalianism, a religious community to which the Gardens belonged, was unacceptable, refusing to take the oaths required by the establishment.
In addition, the Garden brothers were won over to a more personal form of religion, becoming followers of Antoinette or Antonia Bourignon, a mystical writer whose revelations were later condemned as heretical by the Church of Scotland and who required its clergy to positively reject and deny them before they could be ordained. 2
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