Leven en Sterven van Mr. Hugo
Binning" prefixed to his translation of Binning's Common Principles
of the Christian Religion). With regard to the estimation in which
as a preacher, he was held in his own parish, his mode of preaching
being so completely different from what they had been accustomed to,
it is said "he was more valued by Govan people after his death, than
when alive." Analecta, vol. i. p. 338, MSS in Bib. Ad.--_Ed_.]

108 [The writer of "A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Hugh
Binning," prefixed to the small volume of his sermons, published for
the first time in 1760, remarks "By the _haranguing way_ I suppose
he means those sermons that are not divided or sub-divided into
dominant observations and heads, marked by the numbers 1, 2, 3, &c.
But the reader will see many of these discourses, where there are no
figures, no first, second, third, or any number of heads mentioned,
as regularly divided or sub-divided, as those sermons where we will
see a good number of doctrines and heads.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Some useful sermons have
been often perplexed with a great multitude of minds consisting of
two or three sentences without any proof or illustrations of which
the hearer or reader will remember or retain less than some sermons
that contain five or six heads, or have not their distinct divisions
marked with different figures or faces;" pp. xxii-xxiii.--_Ed_.]

109 [It being "the perfection of art to conceal art."--_Ed_.]

110 [Mr. James Durham, minister of the Inner High church, Glasgow, was
the son and heir of John Durham of Easter Powrie, now named
Wedderburn, a considerable estate in the parish of Muirhouse, and
county of Forfar (Old Stat. Acc. of Scot., vol. xiii, pp. 162, 163).
In the time of the civil wars, and before he contemplated being a
clergyman, he was a captain in the army. He held the office of
king's chaplain, when Charles the Second was in Scotland. The
description which "Old Aitkenhead, who had it from the gentlewoman,"
gave, of Cromwell's visit, in April 1651, to the High church of
Glasgow, where Mr. Durham was preaching, is this: "The first seat
that offered him was P. Porterfield's, where Miss Porterfield sat,
and she, seeing him an English officer, was almost not civil.
However he got