cting
Binning from a letter which he had received from Mr. Macward,
through a mutual friend. This letter, or a copy of it, with some
other of Macward's MSS., was in the possession of the publisher of
the duodecimo volume of the sermons of the author, printed at
Glasgow, 1760 (Preface, pp. iv, xxv). Koelman concludes his Memoir
of Binning, which contains some excellent pious reflections, but
almost no facts with which the English reader is not already
acquainted, with a feeling allusion to his ejection from his charge
at "Sluys in Vlaanderen." After this painful separation from his
flock, besides writing many useful original works, he seems to have
employed his leisure in translating into his native language some of
the most esteemed practical writings of foreign divines, such as
_Guthrie's Great Concern, Rutherford's Letters_, &c. Dr. Steven's
Hist. ut supra.--_Ed._]

89 [Adverting to a sermon, which was preached by Mr. Matthew M'Kell, at
a field meeting in the year 1669, Wodrow says, that he was "a true
Nathanael, and a very plain dealer" (Hist. of the Suf. of Ch. of
Scot., vol. ii. p. 127). After having been, on different occasions
brought before the Privy council, and imprisoned, he was, on the 8th
of January, 1674, upon his refusing to engage not to preach, ordered
to confine himself to the parish of Carluke, and security was
required from him that he would appear before the Council at their
summons (Id. vol. i. pp. 371, 372, vol. ii. p. 248. See also History
of Indulgence, p. 36). He died at Edinburgh, in March 1681 (Laws
Memorialis, p. 183).

Wodrow does not speak with much confidence, as to the degree of
propinquity which existed betwixt Mr. Matthew M'Kail minister of
Bothwell and Mr. Hugh M'Kail, the young licentiate who was executed
at Edinburgh, 22d Dec, 1666, for being concerned in the insurrection
at Pentland. But Colonel Wallace, who commanded the insurgents on
that unfortunate occasion, styles "Mr. Hugh M'Kell son of Mr.
Matthew M'Kell minister of Bothwell" (Wallace's Narrative of the
Rising at Pentland, in Dr M'Crie's Memoirs of Veitch and Brysson, p.
430). The unhappy father was allowed to see his son in prison, after
his sentence. There is an affecting account in Naphtali (pp. 339,
345) of thi