THOMAS (1677-1732).-Scottish divine, was successively schoolmaster at Glencairn, and minister of Simprin in Berwickshire, and Ettrick in Selkirkshire. In addition to his best-known work, _The Fourfold State_, one of the religious classics of Scotland, he wrote an original little book, _The Crook in the Lot_, and a learned treatise on the Hebre