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 ? He anſwered, The reaon that I want you, that I know you are diſpoſed to do for me, at none of your brethren in Lithſdale will ſo  as attempt, though it ſerve never ſo good. I told bimhim [sic], I would never refuſe to any thing to ſerve a good purpoſe, if I thought obliged to do it as my duty. He anſwered, I had undertaken what few in Nithſdale uld, for he had tried ſeveral perſons on that, who were more obliged to him than I to any perſon living. Upon this I drew my reins, and talked in furpriſe, aſking what  undertaken? He anſwered, that on Sabbath, I heard you condemned Mr Paton and the miniſters of Dumfries, for diſſuading of Menzies from keeping his appointment with ; and if you had been in their place, you would be perſuaded the lad to do as I deſired, and that would have gone with him yourſelf, if he had afraid; and that if you had been in Paton's place, you would have delivered my miſſions yourſelf, ſince they tended to do  perſons juſtice. I aſked him, Pray Cool, o informed you that I talked at this rate? To ch he anſwered, You muſt know that we are with many things that the living know  about. Theſe things you did ſay, and more to that purpoſe, and all that I want, that you would fulfil your promiſe, and  my commiſſions to my loving wife. Upon  ſaid, 'Tis a pity, Cool, that you who know any things, ſhould not know the difference  an abſolute and a conditional promiſe;  indeed at the time you mention, blame