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14 scriptures, and so gifted with speech, that he will persuade the people to his opinion. Wishart, on hearing these remarks, erared that he might be tried by a competent and impartial judge. On saying this, Lather, his accuser, roared out at the utmost stretch of his voice, "Is not my lord cardinal second person of Scotland, chancellor thereof, archbishop of St. Andrew's, bishop of Menapoire in France, commendator of Arbroath, legatus natus, &c. is not he," he said in concluding this pompous detail of his patron's titles, "a sufficient judge for you?" Wishart calmly replied, "I refuse not, my lord cardinal; but I desire the word of God to be my judge, and the temporal estate, and some of your lordship’s, my auditors; because I am here my lord cardinal's prisoner, who is on this account no ways fit to be my judge." For this language alone, which was called seditious and criminal by the minions of the cardinal, Wishart would have been instantly sentenced to death, had it not been for the interference of certain persons present, who represented that it might be dangerous to put him to death without at least the appearance of a trial. In consequence of this suggestion he was at length permitted to proceed in his defence.

In this he weither made any concessions from fear, nor denied any of the principles he inculcated from inability to defend them: but, on the contrary, he calmly and dispassionately encountered each point of accusation if founded on truth, (for many of them were false,) exhibiting in a light which would have carried conviction to all but his judges of the reasonableness and soundness of his religious sentiments. The ability and resolution with which Wishart conducted himself in place of exciting the commiseration and respect