ers of grievous bloodshedders ready to come in,
and so many malignant noblemen as were not like to lay down arms
till they were put into some places of trust, and restored to their
vote in parliament." (Letters and Journals, vol. ii, p. 366). In the
Life of Professor Wodrow written by his son, (pp. 29, 30, Edin.
1828) it is said, "There were great endeavours used in the year
1659, and 1660, entirely to remove that unhappy rent 'twixt the
public Resolutioners and Protesters in this church, and had not Mr.
Sharp struck in by his letters from London in order to serve his own
designs, and ruin both, and made Mr. Douglas and other ministers at
Edinburgh cold in this matter of the union, it had no doubt
succeeded. These put Mr. Wodrow upon an inquiry into that debate,
and when leaving the lessons during the vacation in the summer he
desired Mr. Baillie's directions what to read for understanding that
subject. The professor said to him, 'Jacobe, I am too much engaged
personally in that debate to give you either my judgement on the
whole, or to direct you to particular authors on the one side and
the other,' but taking him into his closet he gave him the whole
pamphlets that had passed on both sides in print and manuscript,
laid ranked in their proper order, and said, there is the whole that
I know in that affair; take them home to the country with you, and
read them carefully and look to the Lord for his guiding you to
determine yourself aright upon the whole."--_Ed._]

114 [This treatise was afterwards printed and is included in the present
edition of the works of the author.--_Ed._]

115 [See page 226.--_Ed._]

116 [Mr. Patrick Gillespie, who was brother to George Gillespie one of
the ministers of Edinburgh, was for some time minister of Kirkcaldy.
On the 4th December, 1641, "Mr. Pa. Gillespie produceit," to the
magistrates and council of Glasgow, "a presentation grantit to him,
be his Majestie, of the place of the Highe Kirke, instead of the
bischope" (Glasgow Burgh Records). He was one of the three ministers
who, in 1651, were summarily deposed by the Assembly, for their
opposition to the Public Resolutions, and protesting against the
lawfulness of that Assembly (Lamont's Diary, p. 33). His sentence
was reversed by the Synod of