ERSKINE, THOMAS, of Linlathen (1788-187o), Scottish theologian, was born on Oct. 13, 1788. He became in 1810 a mem ber of the Edinburgh faculty of advocates, and belonged to the brilliant legal circle of the Edinburgh of that day, which included Cockburn, Jeffrey, Scott and others. In 1816 he succeeded to the family estate of Linlathen, near Dundee, and devoted himself to theology. As an interpreter of the mystical side of Calvinism and of the psychological conditions which correspond with the doc trines of Grace, Erskine excelled. He died at Edinburgh on March 20, 1870.
His principal works Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion (182o), an Essay On Faith (1822), and the Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel (1828), have all passed through several editions, and have also been translated into French. Two vols. of his letters, edited by William Hanna, D.D., with reminis cences by Dean Stanley and Principal Shairp, appeared in 1877.