ne side the
inscription begins with these words,

_Hanc quisquis urnam transiens, &c._

On another side it begins,

_Qui contra grassantes per fraudem et tyrannidem._

And the English inscription on a third side--

Reader, bedew thine eyes
Not for the dust here lies,
It quicken shall again,
And aye in joy remain:
But for thyself, the church and state
Whose woe this dust prognosticates.

The fourth side of the urn has no inscription.

[67] Mr. Bailey in his speech to the general assembly, 1647.

[68] It appears that he was also chaplain to the viscount Kenmuir about
the year 1634.

[69] Such as our catechisms, directory for worship, form of
church-government, and when the confession of faith was about to be
compiled, they added to our Scots commissioners Dr. Gouge, D. Hoyt, Mr.
Herle the prolocutor, (Dr. Twisse being then dead), Mr. Gataker, Mr.
Tuckney, Mr Reynold's and Mr. Reeves, who prepared materials for that
purpose.

[70] Mr. Bailey in his letters.

[71] See the preface to Stevenson's history.

[72] Although patronage be a yoke upon the neck of the church, which
neither we nor our fathers were able to bear, contrary to Acts i. 13,
&c. vi. 6. xiv. 23. 2. Cor. viii. 19. the practice of the primitive
church, reason and the natural rights of mankind, yet in the beginning
of our reformation from popery, it was somewhat more tolerable (not to
say necessary) than now, when there were few ministers, the people but
just emerging out of gross darkness, and our noblemen and gentlemen then
being generally not only pious religious men, but also promoters of our
reformation (the quite contrary of which is the case at present); and
yet our wise reformers, while in an advancing state, made several acts
both in church and state as barriers against this increasing evil, and
never rested until by an Act of Parliament 1649, they got it utterly
abolished. Soon after the restoration this act among others was declared
null, and patronage in its full force restored, which continued till the
revolution, when its form was changed, by taking that power from patrons
and lodging it in the hands of such heritors and elders as were
qualified by law. But as if this had not been enough, to denude the
people of that right purchased to them by the blood of Christ, patronage
was, in its extent, by act of parliament 1712, restored, and is now
universally practiced with as bad circumstances as ever.---