[178] All the divines in Britain.
[179] John Spottiswoode.
[180] James Law, Bishop of Glasgow, was the deputy of Sydserff, the Bishop of Galloway.
[181] Arguments drawn from the risk of provoking.
[182] Sorrowful.
[183] Drink the health of the buyer over the concluded bargain.
[184] Jer. li. 35.
[185] Zech. xii. 2, 3.
[186] Dr Robert Baron, Professor of Divinity in the Marischal College of Aberdeen, one of the learned doctors of that city, whose dispute, in 1638, with Alexander Henderson, David Dickson, and Andrew Cant, on the subject of the Covenant, excited at the time so much attention.
[187] Mr. John Ridge was an English minister, whom opposition to ceremonial impositions on conscience led to leave his native country for Ireland. He was admitted to the vicarage of Antrim on the 7th of July 1619, in which he laboured with success for many years; but being deposed by Henry Leslie, the Bishop of Down, for nonconformity, he came over to Irvine, where he died.