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 dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation—Against which snare, as well as the temptations of those who may or do feed thee and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy, will be to apply thyself to that light of Christ which shineth in thy conscience, and which neither can nor will flatter thee, nor suffer the to be at ease in thy sins"

They take this name to themselves from Acts xvii. 11, "The Bereans were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the word with with all readiness of mind; and searched the scriptures daily, whether these things were so." Whom they pretend to have imitated that they might find out truth, and lay the foundation of their Church is distinction from all other denominations of Christians Their founder was one Mr John Barclay preacher of the Gospel in the parish of Fettercairn, Angusshire, and assistant to the late Rev Mr Dow, an aged Minister of at parish. Upon the death of Mr Dow, having little interest to