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21 Establishing the same; which was the cause Their lives were sacrificed into the lust Of Prelatists abjured.—Tho' here their dust Lies mix'd with murderers, and other crew, Whom Justice justly did to death pursue; But as for these no cause in them was found Worthy of death, but only they were sound, Constant and stedfast, zealous, witnessing, for the Prerogatives of their King, Which truths were seal’d by famous Guthrie’s head And all along to Mr Renwick’s blood. They did endure the wrath of enemies, Reproaches, torments, deaths and injuries; But yet they’re these who from such trouble came, And now triumph in glory with the.

From May 27th, 1661, that the noble Marquis of suffered, to Feb. 27th, 1688, that Mr James  suffered, 100 Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others, were executed at Edinburgh, noble martyrs for J C. The most part of them be here.—It is also said that 28,000 suffered in the  persecutions in Scotland.

forty years ago, the famous Mr George Whitfield used annually to visit Glasgow, and, by his popular of preaching, allured great multitudes, especially  the female sex, to attend his sermons. The great object of his dicourses was to rouse to acts of beneficence: and as he had instituted a charitable seminary Georgia, he was strenuous in his exhortations to the