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23 time to live. But mark, what I say, Many and powerful enemies shall arise to you from the ashes of my bones, who shall scatter you over the face of the earth; nor shall the best of you die so worthy a deatlı as that which I am about to suffer. I trust in God," he concluded, "I shall be the last in Scotland who shall perish in this cause." With these words he exhorted the people to pray for him, then recommending his soul to his God; and offering the sacrifice of his life for his sake; he prepared himself to his fate.

With the death of this poor old man may be said to have terminated the reign of papal perse- tion in Scotland. The reformed doctrines had already sapped the foundations of the Catholic church, and the tottering superstructure was about yo tumble about the ears of its architects The gross immorality of the Catholic clergy,-their overweening ambition and insolence,—their enormous wealth, which left nearly all in poverty but themselves, accumulated by fraud and extortion,- their engrossing avarice which, not contented with nearly two-thirds of the wealth of the riches of the kingdom, would have had the whole: These con- derations, added to the horror which their cruelty how the cases we have just related, besides many hers, had inspired, hastened on that revolution the church, which purer and more rational view Christianity was gradually effecting. In Scot- nd the public mind had, for some years previous that great event, been prepared for some mighty ange in matters of religion; and this predispo- ion was in no small degree owing to the writings Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, who wrote eral dramatic sketches in which the Catholic rgy were represented in the most ludicrous ht: their sensuality, their hypocrisy, and their