1721).
In his preface, Dr. Owen says, "My long Christian acquaintance with
the author made me not unwilling to testify my respects unto him and
his labours in the church of God, now he is at rest, for whom I had
so great an esteem while he was alive." Wodrow expresses his regret,
that "the other three parts" of Gillespie's work have not been
printed, which, he informs us, the author "wrote and finished for
the press" (Hist. of the Suff. of Ch. of Scot., vol. i., p. 204,
Glasg. 1829). The Synod of Glasgow were informed, on the 8th of
Oct., 1701, that "Mr. Parkhurst, at London," possessed two
unpublished parts of Gillespie's Ark of the Covenant. They,
therefore, appointed a committee to communicate with him on the
subject, through some of the booksellers of Glasgow, "conceiving
that the publishing of these pieces may be of use to the Church,
from the experience they have had of the works of that worthy author
already come to light, upon the same subject" (Records of Synod). On
the 5th April, 1709, "Mr. Robert Wodrow reports, that Mr. Parkhurst
continues still indisposed, so that nothing can be done with respect
to the printing of Mr Gillespie's book formerly mentioned.
Wherefore, the Synod lets the matter fall out of their minutes." Id.

Chalmers (Caledonia, vol. iii., p. 591) seems to have imagined that
Patrick Gillespie was the "Galasp" ridiculed by Milton, in one of
his sonnets. Warton says, this was "George Gillespie, one of the
Scotch ministers of the Assembly of Divines" (Warton's Milton, p.
339, Lond. 1791). But Milton referred neither to the one nor the
other, but to Allaster Macdonald _Macgillespie_, (_son of
Archibald_) otherwise known by the name of Colkittoch, or Colkitto,
who commanded the Irish auxiliaries in Montrose's army. See the new
edition of Baillie's Letters, now in course of publication, formerly
quoted, vol. ii. p. 499.--_Ed_.]

117 [This is a simple marble tablet surmounted with a heart, and the
emblems of mortality. It was placed in a niche in the front wall of
the old parish church; but, in 1826, when the present church was
erected, which is a Gothic structure, it was removed to the
vestibule. It is seen in the vignette of the title page. The
inscription may be turned into English, thus "Mr. H