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20 mies, and invoked in a special manner the vengeance of heaven on hereties; whom, by a miserable portion of scripture, he represented as detetable in the sight both of God and man. The whole discussion was wound up with particular reflexion on the prisoners, and the enjoining his immediate punishment. This concluded, they proceeded to interrogate him. "Why," said Andrew Oliphant, his accuser, did ye visit various houses, treating and seducing the people to heresy, and teaching them charms and enchantments, to withhold them from God's service?" "I did not so," replied Mylne, " I held no man from the church of God, nor from God's service, buk have rather allured them thereto with all the means in my power," "But was ye not a priest, again said Oliphant, and why hast thou left the charge?". "I was," replied the poor man, but it was held in such contempt that I could not ear a subsistence by it. I served the cure of Lune twenty years, and I believe no man in that paris will say anght of me, but that I lived as a tru Christian ought to do. My Lord Innesmeat Himself will bear witness that he never heard of teach erroneous doctrine." “Then why did leave your parish?" continued his accuser. "Because," he answered, as well as others, we compelled to fly to avoid the vengeance of the cruel cardinal, (Beaton) who sought our livest preaching the word of God; From this cause ain driven to the necessity of wandering about a subsistence; but yet miserable and dependa as I am, I cannot hear cursing and swearing, a blasphemation of the word of God even in house in which I seek food and shelter, with reproving it and exhorting to better conduct;