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( 64 ) time in going through the Engliſh Bible, and wrote a few diverſe readings, and ſome explanatory notes, and ſome reconciliations of ſeemingly contrary places, to have been inferred either among the marginal readings, or printed in two or three ſheets in the end of the Bible: but the death of worthy John Graham provoſt of Glaſgow, who was ready to have borne moſt of the charges of printing, ſtopped both theſe enterpriſes. Therefore upon a motion from doctor Leuſden, that a printer in Utrecht would print a Latin Bible, having for the Old Teſtament, Pagnin's tranſlation ſo amended, I ſent doctor Leuſden all theſe papers, but as yet have not heard of any thing done.

Now, whether my conſtant ſitting at theſe ſtudies; or one time upon buſineſs walking long to and again through the town, without rendring urine, ſo as at laſt my urine was bloody, or any other former infirmity, or age creeping on may have been the occaſion, I cannot determine; but ſince the year 1667. and thereafter, I have ſuch a conſtant pain in my bladder, eſpecially when I walk, that I have been forced to take a houſe nearer the kirk. Yet neither I nor ſuch phyſicians as I conſult, can be certain whether it be a ſtone, or only a carnoſity in my bladder. Alſo my hand ſhakes ſo, that ſometimes I can hardly write any at all. Otherwiſe, I bleſs the Lord, find hitherto no great defect, either of body or mind.

OME things were propoſed to have been added to the foregoing life, as firſt a diſcourſe by Mr. Livingſton, on Monday 13th October 1662. after the laſt communion he had at Ancrum, which he mentions with approbation: but the copy having only been taken from his mouth, by the pen of an innacurate amanuenſis, it were injurious to his worthy memory, to tranſcribe the ſame literally; and therefore the Editor prefumes rather to give what he conceives to be the ſubſtance of the ſame, than the copy itſelf. After