ess; for he had
solemnly sworn, that if he lived there, that minister should not be in
that place. Returning to his house a few days after, and boasting how he
had kept his word, and got his minister cast out of his parish, he was
suddenly struck by the Lord with a high fever, which plucked him away in
the very strength of his years." Fulfilling of the scriptures, page
428.

_The Life of Mr. ANGUS MACBEAN._

Mr. Angus MacBean was born about the year 1656. After he had spent some
time at the grammar-school with good proficiency, he went to the
university of Aberdeen; where he began to distinguish himself, no less
for his great regard to practical religion (altho' he was yet of the
episcopal persuasion), than for his extraordinary parts and abilities in
learning.

About this time the bishops, having found their mistake in sending men
of little learning and less religion to the south and west parts of
Scotland, where the people were much disaffected to them, applied to the
professors of divinity to name some of the greatest abilities to be sent
to these parts. Accordingly professor Minzies singled out Mr. MacBean
from amongst all his students, to be sent to the town of Ayr; but he did
not continue long there, having got a call to be minister of Inverness,
which he accepted of, and was there admitted Dec. 29, 1683; and here he
proved a very pathetic and zealous preacher, and one of the most
esteemed of that way. He usually once a-week lectured on a large portion
of scripture, which was not the custom then in that apostate and
degenerate age.

But notwithstanding of his being in the highest esteem among the
prevailing party, the constancy shewn by the sufferers for the cause of
truth, and the cruelty used toward them, made such deep impressions on
his mind, as could never afterward be rooted out or effaced. As a native
consequence of the toleration granted by the duke of York, the mass was
openly set up in the castle of Inverness, against which Mr. MacBean
preached publicly, and warned the people of the imminent danger the
nation was then in. At which the priest was so incensed, that he sent
Mr. MacBean a letter, challenging him to a public dispute. This letter
he received in a crowd on the weekly market, where he usually walked
with some constables to prevent common swearing. He went to a shop, and
there wrote such an answer to the priest, as determined him to send him
no more challenges. The report of this hav