James Dalrymple of Stair, who had for some time been his master and though Binning was but lately his scholar, yet he determined, after much entreaty, to stand as a candidate for that post. At this time there happened to be a vacancy in the chair of Philosophy at the college of Glasgow, by the resignation of Mr. The abstruse depths of philosophy, which are the torture of a slow genius and a weak capacity, he dived into without any pain or trouble so that, by his ready apprehension of things, he was able to do more in one hour than some others could do in many days by hard study and close application and yet he was ever humble, and never exalted with self-conceit, the common foible of young men.Īs soon as his course of philosophy was finished, he obtained the degree of Master of Arts with great applause and began the study of divinity with a view to serve God in the holy ministry. He began to have sweet familiarity with God, and to live in near communion with Him, before others of his years began seriously to lay to heart their lost and undone state and condition by nature so that before he arrived at the thirteenth or fourteenth year of his age, he had even attained to such experience in the ways of God, that the most judicious and exercised Christians in the place confessed they were much edified, strengthened, and comforted by him nay, he provoked them to diligence in the duties of religion, being abundantly sensible that they were much outrun by such a youth.īefore he was fourteen years of age, he entered upon the study of philosophy in the University of Glasgow, wherein he made very considerable progress, by which means he came to be taken notice of in the college by the professors and students, and at the same time advanced remarkably in religion also. When they went to their diversions, he declined their society, and chose to employ himself either in secret duty with God, or conference with religious people, thinking time was too precious to be lavished away in these things. While he was at the grammar school, he made so great proficiency in the knowledge of the Latin tongue, and the Roman authors, that he outstripped his fellow-scholars, even such as were by some years older than himself. His father's worldly circumstances were so good (being possessed of no inconsiderable estate in the shire of Ayr) that he was enabled to give his son Hugh a very liberal education, the good effects of which appeared very early upon him for the greatness of his spirit and capacity of judgment gave his parents good grounds to conceive the pleasing hope of his being a promising child. HUGH BINNING was son of John Binning of Dalvennan, and Margaret M'Kell, daughter of Matthew M'Kell, minister of Bothwell, and sister of Hugh M'Kell, one of the ministers of Edinburgh. He was a professor at the University of Glasgow and then a minister at Govan.Ĭuriosmith features: Drawing Near to God My Portion Forever Extended Biography of Hugh Binning He was educated at the University of Glasgow. Hugh Binning (1627–1653) was born at Dalvennan, Scotland.
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