ii. p. 246-248.
See also a narrative of the sufferings of the Irish Presbyterians,
for their religion and loyalty, in the "Sample of Jet-Black
Calumny," p. 214.--_Ed._]

320 [What is perhaps meant is, it _swelleth_ much.--_Ed._]

321 [That is, _that can lay claim to the favour of his Saviour even when
his Saviour turns away his face from him_.--_Ed._]

322 [What is here said would seem to fix the date of this sermon. It
appears to have been preached before the battle of Dunbar.--_Ed._]

323 [That is, strongly.--_Ed._]

324 [That is, his utmost.--_Ed._]

325 [It is evident from this, and similar references to recent events,
that the Case of Conscience must have been written in the early part
of the year 1651. The proceedings of the commission of the General
Assembly, from July 1650 to July 1661, fill a large MS volume of
more than 400 pages. These proceedings have never been printed, with
the exception of certain detached papers, which are found engrossed
in the controversial pamphlets and journals of the times.--Peterkin's
"Records of the Kirk of Scotland," p. 592.--_Ed._]

326 ["The Gen. Assembly itself at Edinburgh, in July thereafter, did,
upon the 19 of that moneth, publish a Declaration, in which they
give warning concerning Malignants thus:--'We exhort all those who
are in publick trust in ye comitee of Estates, or otherwise, not
only to take good head of their private walking that it be suitable
to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and of their families and followers,
that they bee void of offence, but also be straight in the cause and
covenant, and not to seek themselves, nor befriend any who have been
enemies to the Lord's work, self-seeking, and conniving at, and
complying with, and pleading for Malignants, having been publick
sins that have been often complained of; and we wish to God yr were
no cause to complain of these things still, notwithstanding of the
solemne confession of them, and ingadging against them. God forbid
that any mocke the Lord. He is a severe avenger of all such things,
and there is the more reason at this time not to own Malignants,
because it is ordinary with men so to be taken with the sense of the
dangers such is before them as not to look back to that which is
behind hem. There may be inclinations