e got him _reasonably_ fair off."
Letters and Journals, vol. ii., p. 338.

The publication of Dr. Strang's work, "De Voluntate et Actionibus
Dei circa Peccatum" (Amstelodami Apud Ludovicum et Danielson
Elzeurios, 1657. 4to. pp. 886), was intrusted to Mr. William Spang,
minister of the English church at Middleburgh in Zealand. The
manuscripts were sent to him by his cousin, Mr. Robert Baillie, at
that time Professor of Theology in the University of Glasgow, who,
after the death of his first wife, had married a daughter of Dr.
Strang. "Dr. Strang, your good friend," says Baillie, in a letter to
Mr. Spang, dated July 20, 1654, "having to do in Edinburgh with the
lawyers, concerning the unjust trouble he was put to for his
stipends, did die, so sweetly and graciously, as was satisfactory to
all, and much applauded over all the city, his very persecutors
giving him an ample testimony. His treatise, _Dei circa peccatum_,
he has enlarged, and made ready for the press. Be careful to get it
well printed, according to the constant friendship that was always
betwixt you and him." (Letters, vol. ii. pp. 382, 383) At the
request of Mr. Spang, Alexander Morus furnished a preface, and _Ad
Lectorem Commomito,_ for Dr. Strang's work.--_Ed._]

129 ["This is somewhat strange, observes Howie of Lochgoin, "that a
nameless author should quarrel that book because the publisher hath
omitted to tell his name, and hath only inserted the author's name.
He might have known that it was not long a secret that Mr. James Kid
(who was afterwards settled minister in Queensferry) was the
publisher, and upon that account suffered both long imprisonment at
Utrecht, and the seizure of all that they could get of the books.
And as for vouchers, Mrs. Binning the relict of the worthy author,
being then alive, had connexion and much correspondence with Mr.
Hamilton, Mr. Renwick, and many of the persecuted Society people,
and was of the same sentiments with them, as appears by several
letters yet extant in their own hand-writ--and Mr. Renwick speaks of
her in some of his letters, as in the 49 and 104 pages of the
printed volume of his letters but especially it appears, by a
paragraph which is omitted in the printed copy, page 58, (which
shall be here transcribe