Craighead, Robert, Sr

Craighead, Robert, Sr.

a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1653; was ordained over the Presbyterian congregation at Castle Finn, County Donegal, Ireland, before 1661; went to Glasgow in June 1689; had a call to fill vacancies in the city of Glasgow; returned to Ireland in 1690, and was admitted to Derry; went back to Glasgow in 1698; settled at his former charge about 1700, and died there in September 1711, aged about seventy-eight years. He published An Answer to a Discourse on the Inventions of Men in Worship (1694): — Advice to Communicants (1695): — Advice for Assurance of Salvation (1702): — Answer to the Bishop of Deray's Second Admonition (1697): — Warning and Advice to the Christian (1701): — Walkinng with God (1712). See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:16, 18.