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 an old scholastic pedant; a third"—he stopped, and his companion continued the sentence—" is a desperate homicide, thou wouldst say, like John Balfour of Burley? -I can bear thy misconstruction without resentment. Thou dost not consider, that it is not men of sober and self-seeking minds, who arise in these days of wrath to execute judgment and to accomplish deli- verance. Hadst thou but seen the armies of England, during her parliament of 1642, whose ranks were filled with sectaries and enthusiasts, wilder than the anabaptists of Munster, thou wouldst have had more cause to marvel; and yet these men were unconquered on the field, and their hands wrought marvellous things for the liberties of the land."

"But their affairs," replied Morton, were wisely conducted, and the violence of their zeal expended itself in their exhortations and sermons, without bringing divisions into their councils, or cruelty in-