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that ye, reject the dictates of it, how come you to deſpiſe the diſcipline of the church, Is not offenders to be rebuked and chaſtiſed?

Mith. Yes ſir, a' that is very true, but I hae been three or four times thro' the bible and the New Teſtament, and I never ſaw a repeating tool in't a: they whar cou'd the firſt o' them come frae, the Apoſtle had nane o' them. But a daft hiſtory book tells me that the firſt o' them was uſed about Rome amang the Papiſts, and ay whan ony o' them turn'd Whigs, the were put on a four neuked thing, like a yard winn blades, and rave a their gouls findry till they turn Papiſts again and then for anger they put them on Black ſtone or ſtool, in the mids o' the kirk, and th ſeek gown about them, wi' the picture o' the de'il a Satan on't, a ſweet be wi' us, we fudna ſpeak' o' the thief in the kirk, but it is a mercy the miniſter's he an' he come, but that was the original of your repenting ſtools, and whan the Whigs chac'd away the Papi fouk out of this kintry, they left a wheen o' their religious pictures, and the ſtool o' repentance was mongſt the ſpoil, but yeſe no get my bairn to ſet upo a thing as high as a hen bawk, and ilka body to glowring at him.

Meſs John. Woman I told you formerly that a who refuſe ſubmiſſion to the government of the churc is liable to excommunication; and that we are to p the law in execution againſt adultery and fornicatio or the ſin thereof lies partly on our head.

Mith. As for your ſin of adultery, I have n thing ado wi't; I ken my ſon is a fornicator, and can neither mak him better nor war nor he is, ther nae man can keep a ſtanding in their ain hand, f tune I mean, if it be a ſin let him confeſs't and f bare it, and we's pay the buttock mail and mak nae m about it.

Meſs John. Goodwife you need not think your will paſs to more than others that has been before hi he muſt actually come before the congregation th ſabbaths before he be abſolved from the ſcandal,