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does not do in a case of conscience to stand on trifles; putting,

therefore, out of consideration the fact libelled, and looking both at

the head and the tail of the proceeding, I was of a firht have been well spared from the

eye of the public, which is of itself sufficiently prone to keek and

kook, in every possible way, for a gliht itthat was attempted with a divine institution And I think,

when my people read how their prelatic enemies, the bishops (the heavens

defend the poor Church of Scotland froht of

their paws), have been visited with a constipation of the understanding

on that point, it reat satisfaction to kno clear

and collected their minister was on this fundamental of society For it

has turned out, as I said to Mrs Pringle, as well as others, it would

do, that a sense of grace and religion would be manifested in some

quarter before all was done, by which the devices for an unsanctified

repudiation or divorce would be set at nought