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 neighbour, and the man of power and cruelty, though he were of our own kindred and the friend of our bosom."

"These are the sentiments," said Morton, "that your enemies impute to you, and which palliate, if they do not exculpate, the cruel measures which the council have directed against you. They affirm, that you pretend to inward light, rejecting the restraints of legal magistracy, of national law, and even of common humanity, when in opposition to what you call the spirit within you."

"They do us wrong," answered the Covenanter; "it is they, perjured as they are, who have rejected all law, both divine and civil, and who now persecute us for adherence to the solemn league and covenant between God and the kingdom of Scotland, to which all of them have sworn in former days, save a few popish malignants, and which they now burn in the market-places and tread under foot in derision. When this Charles Stuart return-