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 of these temptations and suggestions of Satan,  had like to have prevailed him before. And upon Monday giving a reason to the said Sir William Scot his lady, why he went not to the church with them,  occasion to be plain, and express in testifying  the sinfulness of the indulgence, in its complex, and original rise and spring from whence it flowed;  thereupon leaving that service, being no further acceptable to them; because of his faithfulness, he came to  south, and having met with the reverend Mr John , he stayed in his company a considerable time;  finding him a man qualified for the ministry, pressed on him to accept a licence to preach, which he refused  some time chiefly upon this reason, that he having  clear discoveries of the sinfulness of the indulgence,  not but testify against it explicitly, so soon as he  have opportunity to preach in public; and confiding, that none of the outed ministers, who had been  standing and experience in the ministry, had yet expressly declared the sinfulness thereof in public, he was afraid  his being singular in it concerning his youth, and  bring out now entred upon the work of Ministry,  perhaps make his doctrine these useful and weighted to the people: but the force of his objection being reserved, by Mr. Welsh's serious solicitations he was pressured with to accept a licence from some of the outed mister, who had not complied with the indulgence,  were as yet preaching the gospel in the fields. And preached occasionally with Mr. Welsh and others, several places of the western shires, and finding the  warmest and affected by his doctrine by the good  of God blessing the word; he adventured sometimes the Lord assisted him, to be express and clear in desiring the sinfulness of the indulgence; and of joining with  acceptors thereof; where, upon the Ministers, who  licensed him to preach, conceiving its prejudice not to so explicite anent that step of compliance, began to secure him with the censure for his freedom in preaching  it, and called three several meetings upon that account, one at Dunscore in Nithsdale, another at Dingh in Galloway, and a third at Edinburgh.