Archibald McLean (Baptist minister)

[1] Marriage allowed McLean to set up as a bookseller and printer in Glasgow; on a matter of conscience he gave up the business seven years later.

In 1765 he left them for the Baptists, and in June 1768 he was chosen for pastoral office as Robert Carmichael's colleague at Edinburgh.

McLean argued that faith is only a passive receiving of the gospel, without necessarily including good dispositions or holy affections towards God.

[2] The Sandemanian views held by Archibald McLean have been compared to modern Free Grace theology.

[1] In 1759 McLean married Isabella, youngest daughter of William More, a merchant, with whom he obtained a small property.