Analecta (Volume 3); Or, Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " When one John Wallace, an excellent Christian, in Paislay, rose early to work, about three or four of the clock in the morning, yet he said he could never rise that early but Mr Dunlop was up before him; and it's said that he rose truly sooner in the winter then in the summer time. " He had a brother, called Mr John, who was Minister at Buttle, in Gallouay Synod. He said to some that his brother, Mr John, was far above him for parts. " It was Mr Dunlop that dreu and inticed Mr James Stirling to embrace the call to Paisley, when he had, in the meantime, a call from the parish of Erskin." MR JAMES STIRLING, MINISTER AT PAISLAY. " He was my father's youngest brother, and was, 1654, ordeaned Minister at Paislay, when about twenty-three years. By all that kneu him he was reconed a very considerable man. He was very acute, and learned, and pious. He had a very polite and accurat way of preaching. My father would have sometimes said to my mother, ' O ! but my brother has great gifts and parts !' " He was very zealous against the Publick Resolutions. He was very ready to gain upon enemies, and to win them. A very great malignant spoke to me once of him in a high commendation, not knouing my relation to him. He was mighty familiar and well acquaint with our great Noblmen, such as the Marquise of Argyle and others; for he was well- bred and well-behaved, and yet he was most condescending to the meanest sort of people. " He penned the first part of Nephthali, as Mr Spreul the merchant tells me; and that he dictated a good part of it to him. He wrote the Church part of it, and Mr James, afterward Sir James Steuart, since [Lord] Advocat, wrote the Lau part of it. My uncle, Mr Robert, was once enquired by him, if he had a copy of Nepthali ? and answering ' No, 'he said, ' ...