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for we would not continue long sound in the faith, and straight in the way, if we wanted faithful guides. And, for all the respect that these divided parties of dissenters, or rather schismaticks and separatists, pretend to Messrs. Cargill. Cameron, Shiels and Renwiek, to be their successors, and maintaining the testimony which they sealed with their blood; how little do they notice the sententious writings and sayings of these worthies? And I am persuaded, if they were upon the stage this day, that none would speak, preach, and write more against all the divided parties of them, and their antiscriptural, wild, unpreeedented principles and practices: And these that cast off all ministers this day in Scotland, if they had been living through all the periods of this church, would never have embraced any as their ministers, nor none in other churches this day through the world. It was one of the sententious sayings of the Rev. Mr. James Kirktoun, in his pulpit in Edinburgh, insisting upon Scotland's singular privileges above all other churches for a long time. "That there had been ministers in Scotland that had the gift of working miracles, and prophesying, which he could instruct; and that he had heard French, Dutch, English, Irish, and other ministers preach, and yet there have been and are ministers in Scotland that preach more from the heart, and to the heart than any that ever he heard." And I have sometimes heard the worthy Mr. Shiels say, when he spoke of his travels through the world, That the ill of Scotland he found every-where, but the good of Scotland he found no where.— When the sermon was ended and children baptized, there came up more children: Friends prest him to preach in the afternoon, contrary to his inclination; which he did, upon that text, Weep not for me. When praying, there came a herd lad, crying. The enemies are coming upon you! They had no sentinels out that day, which was not their ordinary: they wereso
