HALYBURTON, THOMAS (1674-1712), Scottish divine, was born at Dupplin, near Perth, on Dec. 25, 1674. His father, one of the ejected ministers, having died in 1682, he was taken by his mother in 1685 to Rotterdam to escape persecution. In 1696 he graduated at the University of St. Andrews and in 1700 he was ordained minister of the parish of Ceres. In 1710 he became pro fessor of theology in St. Leonard's college, St. Andrews. He died from the effects of overwork in 1712.
The works by which he continues to be known were all of them pub lished after his death. Wesley and Whitefield were accustomed to corn mend them to their followers. They were published as follows: Natural Religion Insufficient, and Revealed Religion Necessary, to Man's Hap piness in his Present State (1714) , an able statement of the orthodox Calvinistic criticism of the deism of Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Charles Blount ; Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Thomas Halyburton (1715), three parts by his own hand, the fourth from his diary by another hand ; The Great Concern of Salvation (1721), with a word of commendation by I. Watts ; Ten Sermons Preached Before and After the Lord's Supper (1722) ; The Unpardonable Sin Against the Holy Ghost (1784) .