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1174 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
"Inquiry into the Human Mind," Gregory’s " Comparative view," &c.,
Gerard’s "Essay on Genius," Beattie’s "Essay on Truth,” and
Campbell’s "Philosophy of Rhetoric." In 1759 Gerard was ordained
a minister of the Church of Scotland, and in the following year was
appointed professor of divinity in Marischal College, and about
the same time took the degree of D. D. He continued to perform
the several duties attached to his offices till 1771 , when he resigned
the professorship, together with the church living, and was preferred
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to the theological chair at King’s College, a situation which he
held til his death on February 22, 1795. His biographer states,
that "Dr. Gerard’s attainments were solid rather than brilliant, the
effect of close and almost incessant study, and a fine judgment.”
He was the author of an " Essay on Taste," 1759, enlarged in 1780 ;
"Dissertations on the Genius and Evidences of Christianity," 1766,
"Essay on Genius," "Sermons," two vols., and of a posthumous work
entitled "The Pastoral Care."
NOTE 221.
DR. WILLIAM SPENCE.
W. Spence, M. D. , published in 1792 a book entitled "Essays in
Divinity and Physic," &c., which on pp. 38 and 39 contains the in
formation concerning Swedenborg which he collected from Mr.
Christopher Springer,121 one of his patients, and Dr. Messiter 2
(Document 262). According to Mr. R. Hindmarsh he attended the
first public meeting of friends of the New Church, which was held
on December 5, 1783 ; afterwards, in 1785, he was one of the four
gentlemen who undertook the publication of the Apocalypsis Ex
plicata (Document 309, p. 806), and on p. XXII of the above
mentioned work, he is spoken of as editor. He was a friend of
C. F. Nordensköld, and the latter in his Considérations Générales, &c.
p. 304, left the following record of their friendship: "One day, having
perceived the unsuitableness of my present lodgings, and being
myself most anxious to leave them, he called upon me, and said,
’I have a proposition to make to you. I do not wish you to stay
any longer here, and I offer you in my house my table and a sleeping
room, and for the reception of our visitors we shall use the same
drawing-room. As to my terms, they are as follows,’ &c. I thanked
him for his obliging offer, to which I had nothing to object, but I
told him that I could not leave my host without paying him twenty
guineas which I owed him for my lodgings. ’Nothing else?’ he said,
’I shall pay them.’ He did so, and in this manner I became an
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