1902 ALEXANDER PEDEN - Rare Biography of "Peden the Prophet;" a Covenanting Minister with Miraculous Gifts! ExpositionAlexander Peden [1626 1686] is one of the most fascinating personages of the Covenanter period during the 17th century in Scotland. Revered as one of the most influential Covenanting preachers, he was arrested and imprisoned repeatedly; even being banished to work as a slave on the American Plantations. But when the ship masters heard the reason for his being sent to America, they released him. He was known as the prophet both because of the
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He was hired by the society to try to get slavery immediately abolished on moral and religious grounds
His letter read closely contains very much of that typological / apocalyptic language
His works have been nearly continuously in print for 200 years
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successor to John MacDonald at Ferintosh with a detailed account of the Manse being struck by lightning in 1849