ertain or countenance
Mr. Renwick, if he should come that way; whereupon he sent for the
doctor, letting him know that the same person was in the house, and that
he desired to discourse with him on that head, but this he refused.

After this one informed against him to the Holland ministers, who
returned back with Mr. Brackel's advice to Mr. Renwick and others; but
as it relished of a gospel spirit, not like that of his informers, it
was no way offensive to him. Mr. Roelman, another famous Dutch divine,
and a great sympathizer once with Mr. Renwick and that afflicted party,
by their informations, turned also his enemy, which was more weighty to
him, that such a great man should be so credulous; but all these things
never moved him, being fully resolved to suffer this and more for the
cause of Christ.

In 1687, a proclamation was issued out Feb. 12. tolerating the moderate
presbyterians to meet in their private houses to hear the indulged
ministers, while the field meetings should be prosecuted with the utmost
rigour of law, &c. A second proclamation was given June 28. allowing
all to serve God in their own way, in any house, &c. A third was
emitted Oct. 5. declaring that all preachers and hearers at any meeting
in the open fields should be prosecuted with the utmost severity that
law will allow, &c. and that all dissenting ministers who preach in
houses should teach nothing that should alienate the heart of the people
from the government; and that the privy counsellors, sheriffs, &c.
should be acquainted with the places set apart for their preaching,
_etc._ This proclamation it seems was granted as an answer to an address
for the toleration given in, in name of all the presbyterian ministers
July 21. 1687.

Whereupon Mr. Renwick found it his duty not only to declare against the
granters, but also against the accepters of this toleration; warning
also the people of the hazard of their succession to it, _etc._ At which
the indulged were so incensed, that no sooner was their meeting well
settled, than they began to shew their teeth at him, calling him an
intruder, a jesuit, a white devil, going through the land carrying the
devil's white flag; that he had done more hurt to the church of
Scotland, than its enemies had done these twenty years, _etc._: As also
spreading papers through the country, as given under his hand, to render
him odious; which in truth were nothing else than forgeries, wherein
they only discovered th