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After which Cromwel wrote to him from Edinburgh to come and speak to him; but he excused himself.
That winter the unhappy difference fell out anent the Public Resolutions. His light carried him to join the Protestors against Resolutioners. And the Assembly that followed thereafter, he was present at their first meeting in the west at Kilmarnock, and several other meetings of the Protesting Brethren afterwards; but not being satisfied with keeping these meetings so often, and continuing them so long, which he imagined made the breach wider, he declined them for some time.
After this, he spent the rest of his time in the exercise of the ministry, both at Ancrum and other places, until summer 1660, that news was brought him that the King was called home, and then he clearly foresaw that the overturning of the whole work of reformation would ensue, and a trial to all who would adhere to the same.
But, in the year 1662, when the Parliament and Council had, by proclamation, ordered all Ministers, who had come in since 1649 and had not kept the holy day of the 29th of May, either to acknowledgethe
