pace, you will not wone at _soul-confirmation,_ there is a whine
(i.e., _a few_) old job-trot, and does not mend your pace, you will
not wone at _soul-confirmation,_ there is a whine old job-trot
ministers among us, a whine old job-trot professors, they have their
own pace, and faster they will not go; O therefore they could never
wine to _soul-confirmation_ in the mettere of God. And our old
job-trot ministers is turned _curates_, and our old job-trot
professors is joined with them, and now this way God has turned them
inside out, and has made it manifest and when their heart is hanging
upon this braw, I will not give a gray groat for them and their
profession both.

The devil has the ministers and professors of Scotland, now in a sive,
and O as he sifts, and O as he riddles, and O as he rattles, and O the
chaff he gets; And I fear there be more chaff nor there be good corn,
and that will be found among us or all be done: but the
_soul-confirmed_ man leaves ever the devil at two more, and he has ay
the matter gadged, and leaves ay the devil in the lee side,--Sirs O
work in the day of the cross.

The more moderate presbyterian ministers saw with pain and resentment
the lower part of their congregation, who had least to lose by taking
desperate courses, withdrawn from their flocks, by their more zealous
pretenders to purity of doctrine, while they themselves were held up to
ridicule, old jog trot professors and chaff-winnowed out and flung away
by Satan. They charged the Cameronian preachers with leading the deluded
multitude to slaughter at Bothwell, by prophesying a certainty of
victory, and dissuading them from accepting the amnesty offered by
Monmouth. "All could not avail," says Mr. Law, himself a presbyterian
minister, "with McCargill, Kidd, Douglas, and other witless men amongst
them, to hearken to any proposals of peace. Among others that Douglas,
sitting on his horse, and preaching to the confused multitude, told them
that they would come to terms with them, and like a drone was always
droning on these terms with them: 'they would give us a half Christ, but
we will have a whole Christ,' and such like impertinent speeches as
these, good enough to feed those that are served with wind and not with
the sincere milk of the word of God." Law also censures these irritated
and extravagant enthusiasts, not only for intending to overthrow the
government, but as binding themselves to kill