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T will not be (perhaps) ungrateful to some insert the following relation of some remarkable things anont his call to the the ministry, which was rehearsed by himself a little before his death where he  some christian friends, that after his having gone  the ordinary course of university learning he was a School master and a Precentor to a Curate at Falkland, for  time, and at some occasions, used to attend the Sermon of the indulged Ministers as he had opportunity. length it pleased the LORD to incline him to go out the field-meetings, which when the curates understood they set upon him partly by flatteries, partly by menacing threats, and at length by more direct persecution,  cause him forbear attending these meetings; but  was the powerful and wonderful working of the Lord's  his spirit upon him that he entirely deserted these priest Curators, having got a lively discovery of the sin and hazard of that abominable Prelacy. And no sooner he enlightened  the evil of Prelacy, but beginning more narrowly to search into the state of things, that  might know what was his proper and necessary duty,  Lord was pleased to discover to him the sinfulness of  indulgence, as flowing from the Ecclesiastics supremacy usurped by the king; and being zealously affected  the honour of Christ, wronged by that erastian acknowledgement of the magistrate's usurped power over  church, he longed for an opportunity to give a testiment against it; and accordingly being the family of Sir William Scot of Harden, who attended the indulged meetings,  took opportunity not withstanding many strong temptations from Satan to the contrary to witness in his  against the indulgence; particularly one Sabbath after  was called to attend the lady to church, he returned from the entry refusing to go that day, and spent the day  his chamber, where he met with much of the Lord's  (as he testified) and very evident discoveries of the