tland) are also a-missing. PREFACE to Stevenson's History.

[3] Mr Wodrow in history.

[4] Sure 'tis a serious thing to die; my soul
What a strange moment must it be when near
Thy journey's end, thou hast the gulph in view!
That awful gulph no mortal e'er repass'd,
To tell what's doing on the other side.

The GRAVE, by Blair

[5] Mr Henry on 1 Cor. xi. 1.

[6] For confirmation of this, see the Edinburgh monthly review for
February 1774.

[7] See the parliamentary chronicle, or God on the mount

[8] See act v. parl. 1640 act v. 1644. act xv. 1649.; acts of the
general assembly, sess. 26. 1638. sess. 23. 1639. sess. 6. 1642. sess.
{illegible} 1647. sess. 31. 1648, &c.

[9] Act v. sess 1. parl. 1. James VII. See James VII. and William and
Mary's acts of parliament abridged, p. 42.

[10] Such as Messrs Currie, Ferguson, and Smith of Newburn &c. who, in
order to palliate and extenuate the evil of the present backsliding
courses, seem to have left no stone unturned to expose or blacken the
reforming period.

[11] See more anent patronage and our covenants in the notes, pag. 184
and 185.

[12] Although toleration principles be now espoused, boasted of and
gloried in by many, yea by some from whom other things might be
expected, yet it is contrary to scripture. See Gen. xxxv. 2. &c. Deut.
xiii. 6. Judg. ii. 2. Ezek. xliii. 8. Prov. xvii. 15. Zech. xiii. 2.
Rom. xiii. 6. Rev. ii. 14, &c. And how far the civil magistrate is to
exert his power in punishing heretics, I shall not at present determine,
or whether the word _extirpate_ in our solemn league and covenant
extends to the temporal or spiritual sword, only there are different
sentiments and expositions, yet sure I am that according to the very
nature of things that which is morally good (being a commanded duty)
needs no toleration; and that which is morally evil no mortal on earth
can lawfully grant an immunity unto: And betwixt these there is no
medium in point of truth and duty. And it is observable, that where
toleration or toleration principles prevail, real religion never
prospers much; and besides all it is of woful consequence, for as in
natural bodies antipathies of qualities cause destruction, so in bodies
politic different religions, or ways of worship in religion, cause many
divisions and distractions, whereby the seamless coat of Christ is like
to be torn in pieces, and this oftentimes terminates in the ruin of the
whole. _For