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LETTER XXVII

The Rev Z Pringle, DD, to Mr Micklewham, Schoolreat satisfaction in hearing that Mr Snodgrass, in my

place, prays for the queen on the Lord's Day, which liberty, to do in our

national church, is a thing to be upholden with a fearless spirit, even

with the spirit of martyrdom, that we may not bon in Scotland to the

prelatic Baal of an order in Council, whereof the Archbishop of

Canterbury, that is cousin-german to the Pope of Ro forth of that order to the General Asse, whereby he took the vows

upon him, conform to the Articles of the Union, to maintain the Church of

Scotland as by law established, so that for the Archbishop of Canterbury

to ressive

doht of h you, to the

Session, that the eldersin of the Episcopalian boar into our corner of the vineyard

Anent the queen's case and condition, I say nothing; for be she guilty,

or be she innocent, we all know that she was born in sin, and brought

forth in iniquity--prone to evil, as the sparks fly upwards--and

desperately wicked, like you and me, or any other poor Christian sinner,