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At a very early age he came under deep impressions of religion, abandoned the study of the law, and obtained license as a preacher of the gospel from a presbyterian minister in 1672.^[5]^[6]

Legal Problems

Coming under the notice of Archbishop Sharp as a preacher at conventicles, he was ordered to be apprehended in 1674; decreets and letters of inter-communing were passed against him 6 August 1675.^[7] He was summoned before the council 29 Jan. 1676–7, and ordered to be imprisoned on the Bass Rock the next day. He was escorted to the Bass by twelve horsemen and thirty foot.^[8] Here he remained two years and a half, being released on giving security for good behaviour in July 1679. He was depressed by the sudden death of his wife in October 1676, and by the many troubles of the time, as well as by his imprisonment. He yet found material for recording in his diary many matters that called for gratitude. While in prison he studied Hebrew and Greek, and gained some knowledge of oriental languages. He wrote also a treatise on justifying faith, of which many editions have been printed. Some of its views in favour of a universal reference in the work of Christ were strongly objected to by certain of his brethren who saw it in manuscript, and it was not till 1722 that the first part was published, the second appearing in 1749.

Imprisonment

In December 1681 he was again arrested and committed to Blackness Castle as a prisoner until he paid a fine of five thousand marks and gave security either to give up preaching or quit the kingdom. A brother-in-law caused the fine to be remitted, and Fraser was sent out of Scotland. On 21 July 1683 he was ordered to be imprisoned for six months in Newgate, London, for refusing the Oxford Oath.^[9] Before 6 July 1687 he returned to Scotland, and was living in the bounds of Lothian and Tweeddale. In 1689 he was minister of Culross, Perthshire, where he exercised his ministry with diligence and earnestness. He was a member of the assemblies of 1690 and 1692, had a call from Inverness in September 1696, but died in Edinburgh on 13 September 1699.

Theology

James Fraser is noted for a doctrine of universal atonement although he did not think that all would be saved.^[10]

Personal Life

He married (1) 31st July 1672, Isobel (died October 1676), daughter of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum, and widow of William Hamilton, merchant, Edinburgh, and had issue — Jean (married as his second wife, 1698, Hugh Bose of Kilravock), died without children; Beatrice (married William Burnet, minister of Falkirk) (2) Christian (died without children about 1696), daughter of John Inglis, minister of Hamilton, and widow of Alexander Carmichael, minister of Pettinain.

Bibliography

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Aird |first1=Gustavus |author2=Gustavus Aird's sketch is often bound with Fraser's Memoirs |title=Short Sketch of Rev. Mr Fraser |date=1891 |publisher=Melven |location=Inverness |pages=v-vi |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsofjame00fras/page/n7 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=James Fraser of Brea, Min. of Culross |url=https://www.geni.com/people/James-Fraser-of-Brea-Min-of-Culross/6000000019294549736 |website=Geni |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
3. ^{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Murdoch |title=The Covenanters in Moray and Ross |date=1875 |publisher=Maclaren & Macniven |location=Edinburgh |page=104 |url=https://archive.org/details/covenantersinmor00macd/page/104 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
4. ^{{cite book |last1=Mackenzie |first1=Alexander |title=History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy |date=1896 |publisher=A. & W. Mackenzie |location=Inverness |pages=179-181 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoffrasers00mackuoft/page/180 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
5. ^{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Murdoch |title=The Covenanters in Moray and Ross |date=1875 |publisher=Maclaren & Macniven |location=Edinburgh |page=105 |url=https://archive.org/details/covenantersinmor00macd/page/104 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
6. ^{{cite book |last1=Mackenzie |first1=Alexander |title=History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy |date=1896 |publisher=A. & W. Mackenzie |location=Inverness |pages=523-527 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoffrasers00mackuoft/page/524 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
7. ^{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1925 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh |pages=15-16 |edition=Vol 5 |url=https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc05scot#page/16/mode/2up |accessdate=23 February 2019}}{{PD-notice}}
8. ^{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Hugh |title=Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland; or, The traditional history of Cromarty |date=1878 |publisher=Nimmo |location=London |pages=115-122 |url=https://archive.org/details/sceneslegendsofn00milluoft/page/118 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
9. ^{{cite book |last1=King |first1=Robert D. |title=The Covenanters in the North [microform] : or, Sketches of the rise and progress, north of the Grampians, of the great religious and social movement of which the Covenant of 1638 was the symbol |date=1847 |publisher=Aberdeen : George and Robert King ; London : Hamilton Adams & Co |pages=375-390 |url=https://archive.org/details/MN5157ucmf_0/page/n395 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}
10. ^{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=James |title=The theology and theologians of Scotland : chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |date=1888 |publisher=Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark |pages=80-83 |url=https://archive.org/details/theologytheologi00walk/page/80 |accessdate=23 February 2019}}