enjoy.

[253] If these were Mr. Dickson's sentiments then of the revolution
settlement, so much now gloried in and boasted of by many, they must be
either ignorantly blind or under an infatuation, who see not that things
are a great deal worse (though the same as to the constitution) than in
his day. For how many are the clogs and impositions, that are annually
(I may say daily) wreathed about the neck of the church, in these
degenerate isles of sea, Britain and Ireland. And could any thing be
believed by an apostate generation, we should think that his words
should be of some weight, who was no opponent, but a member of the
established church, yea and more, a seer in our Israel, and, we may say,
one among a thousand, _for as the man is, so is his strength_, &c.

[254] Calderwood's history, page 776.

[255] Wilson's impartial relation of Bothwel bridge, where the reader
will find a full account of the most material transactions done there at
that time.

[256] In the hands of some friends, are yet to be seen two of these
commissions in Latin, wrote on parchment, one of which is a very
beautiful copy on copper-plate.

[257] See a more full account of his negotiations in the Netherlands for
the suffering remnant, in a large letter of his now published in
Faithful Contendings, page 186,----{illegible}.

[258] Memorandum of occurrences in manuscript, page 1st and 2d.

[259] See the above-mentioned declarations, protestations and
declinatures with some of his many religious letters, lately published
in a pamphlet intitled, the Christian Conduct, &c.

[260] And even some others (Walker and others) who have pretended a
great regard for the principles and memory of some of our late
sufferers, such as Mess. Cameron, Cargil and Renwick. But in this they
are not aware whom they have obliged: for it is pretty notour, That this
gentleman and these worthies, particularly the last, were the very same
in principle to their lives end, as their own letters and testimonies do
evidence; and so in condemning him, they have not only tacitly condemned
them, but most avowedly relinquished the substantial part of the
covenanted testimony of the church of Scotland in her purest times; and
what can the arch-bishop of Canterbury require more, never once to
mention an anti-covenanter, a nullifidian, or lukewarm presbyterian.

[261] This life is substracted from his life at large in the first
edition.

[262] See his life at large wrote by