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( 7 ) to kneel or to depart: ſomewhat I ſpoke to him, but to not remember perfectly what I ſaid, it was to this ; That there was no warrant for kneeling, and for  of it, we ought not to be excommunicated from the  of the Lord. He cauſed ſome of the people about  to riſe that we might have place to remove, which we ; The next day the Principal Mr, Robert Boyd called  to him, and ſaid, within two or three weeks, he would  the communion at Govan, for he was miniſter at Govan, and deſired me that whom I knew to be well  of the young men of the college, I would bring with  to him; altho’ he was a man of a sour-like diſpoſition  carriage, I always found him so kind and ſamiliar as  me wonder: ſometimes he would call me with other  or four, and lay down books before us, and have us  tunes of muſick, wherein he took great delight. The Chriſtian acquaintance and ſociety whereby I got any, was with a religious gentleman William Cunningham  of Bonytown, who uſed to be oft at my father’s houſe;  times he and John Wier of Stockbridges, Alexander Tenant, James Wier , George Matthew, and David Matthew, who were Packmen, would meet in my chamber  Lanerk, where we uſed to ſpend ſome time in conference  prayer.

IId.

The ſecond period of my life, I reckon from the time I reached in publick, till the time I was settled in the ministry Killinchie in Ireland, for having begun to preach in  1625, I continued in my father’s houſe in Lanerk,  for the ſpace of an year and an half or ſome more, I  there, and preached ſometimes there, and ſometimes  neighbouring kirks, during which time I wrote all my  before I preached them word by word, till one day  to preach after the communion of Quodquan, and  in readineſs only a ſermon which I had preached onoone [sic]  before in another kirk, and perceiving ſeverals to be  Quodquan, who had been at the other kirk, I reſolved  chuſe a new text, and having but little time, wrote only  notes of the heads I was to deliver, yet I found at that