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( 58 ) to ſtick together. The Sufferings of Mr. Hew MacKaile are ſo ſingular, that though they are printed in Nephtali, yet, being ſo proper for a Hiſtory of this Nature, I would willingly have inſert them here, were they not very pro- lix, and therefore muſt refer my Reader thither for a larg- er Account of this ſingular Perſon. Never did Men in Scotland die more lamented by the Spectators, yea the religious Part of the Nation ; but moſt of all, when Mr. Hew MacKaile ſuffered, there was ſcarce ever ſeen ſo much Sorrow in Onlookers; ſcarce was there a dry Check in the whole Street or Windows at the Croſs of Edinburgh. He was a Youth of twenty-ſix Years of Age, univerſally beloved, ſingularly pious, of very conſi- derable Learning. He had ſeen the World, and traveled ſome Years abroad, and was a very comely graceful Per- ſon. I am told, he uſed to faſt one Day every Week, and Had frequently before this ſignified to his Friends his In- preſſions of ſuch a Death as he now underwent. His Share in the Riſing was known to be but ſmall, and, when be ſpoke of his Comfort and Joy in Death, heavy were the Groans of theſe preſent. When theſe good People were execute, ſuch who were accuſtomed too much to Curſing, curſed the Prelates; and ſuch as uſed to pray, prayed the Guilt of this innocent Blood might not be laid to their Charge, nor viſited upon the Land. Mr. Matthew MacKaile Miniſter of the Goſpel at Both- wel, Father to Mr. Hew, who was executed after Pent- land, a true Nathaniel, and a very plain Dealer, preach- ed in the Year 1669, within a few Miles of Paiſley, to a conſiderable Meeting in the Fields, upwards of a Thou- ſand; his Text was, Iſaiah xxxii. 5. From this he de- ſcribed the Churl ſo, as many of his Hearers applied it to one in that country of ſome Rank. If the Picture was ſeriptural, and indeed the Preacher was very much Maſ- ter of the Bible, and ſo natural'as to repreſent the Guilty, he was not to be blamed for his Heaters Application. Great