ster, 'that the
commission of the kirk would approve nothing that was right; that a
hypocrite ought not to reign over us; that we ought to treat with
Cromwell and give him security not to trouble England with a king;
and whoever marred this treaty, the blood of the slain in this
quarrel should be on their heads.' Strange words if true."--Letters,
vol. ii. p. 363. The ungrateful, impolitic, and barbarous treatment
which his Scottish subjects received from Charles II. after the
Restoration, must be held to be a proof of the sagacity at least of
Binning, and a justification of the suspicion with which he and some
of the other Protesters regarded him. It is not unlikely that, in
their case, the strong appeal to the fears of the English and
Scottish presbyterians, as the supposed friends of monarchy,
contained in Milton's "Tenure of Kings and Magistrates," which was
published but two years before this, had not failed altogether of
its effect.--_Ed._]

398 [I have not been able to discover to what "old translation" the
author alludes. But Wilcox puts the same interpretation, that he
does, upon the ninth verse of this chapter. "_Sinne_, (viz. which
the wicked and ungodly men commit, and they know one of them by
another,) _maketh fools to agree_, (viz. one of them with another:
q.d. their partaking in wickednesse joineth the wicked's minds, one
of them towards another;) _but among the righteous_, (i.e. good and
holy people,) _that which is acceptable_ (viz. before God and good
men) _maketh agreement_ (viz. among themselves: q.d. good things
onlie tie good men's minds together)." _A Short yet Sound
Commentarie Written on that Worthie Work called the Proverbs of
Salomon._ London, 1624.--_Ed._]

399 [The Estates, or parliament.--_Ed._]

400 [That is, notorious or manifest.--_Ed._]

401 [In the margin of the authorized version the verse is translated
thus "A great man grieveth all and he hireth the fool, he hireth
also transgressors."--_Ed._]

402 [That is, violent blowing. _Cairding_ however, is not unlikely the
proper word, a _caird_ being in Scotland the name of a
tinker.--_Ed._]

403 ["Although you expel nature by violence, she will still
return."--_Per. Epist._ lib. i. ep. 10. ver. 24.--_Ed._]

404 [Having burst, as it we