, by consulting some of
the numerous pamphlets and manifestoes, which were printed at the time.

Along with the Case of Conscience, the present edition of the works of the
Author includes the "Treatise of Christian Love," first printed at
Edinburgh in 1743, and "Several Sermons upon the most Important Subjects
of Practical Religion," which were printed for the first time at Glasgow
in 1760. Neither of these is contained in the quarto edition of Binning's
works that was published in 1768, at Glasgow. That was a mere reprint of
the edition of 1735, which issued from the Edinburgh press. In his Address
to the Reader, the publisher of the Treatise on Christian Love says, "This
treatise, with a great number of excellent sermons, preached by this able
minister of the gospel, many of which have never been printed, in a
manuscript in folio, was found in the late Reverend Mr. Robert Woodrow,
minister of Eastwood, his library." The editor of the Practical Sermons,
however, informs us, in his preface, that the manuscript from which the
"elegant and judicious treatise of Christian Love was first printed," _was
in his hand_.(41) And he adds, "As Mr. Wodrow wrote large collections upon
the lives of our most eminent Reformers, which he designed to publish if
he had lived longer, so the Lives and Letters of Mr. John Knox, who was
commonly styled the Reformer, is now preparing for the press, to which
will be added some of his essays on religious subjects, never before
printed. If the publication of Mr. Knox's life be duly encouraged, some
more lives of other ministers in that period will be transcribed and
revised, for the benefit of the public, who desire to have them
printed."(42) Hence we are led to conclude, that those additional works of
Binning found their way to the press through the Rev. Robert Wodrow,
minister of Eastwood, the son and successor of the historian. The preface
to the Practical Sermons is dated "Brousterland, Sept 12th, 1760." This is
the name of a place in the parish of Kilbride, in the county of Lanark, to
which it has been ascertained the son of the historian retired, for a
short time, after resigning his cure in the year 1758. I observe,
likewise, that a letter now before me, written in the year 1806, by the
Rev. Dr. James Wodrow, minister of Stevenston, the youngest son of the
historian, and addressed to the Rev. Dr. Robert Finlay, of the University
of Glasgow, contains a statement, which, in the absence of more