[8] We should like to know what threatenings the gospel requires ministers to make use of to such impenitent sinners as will not confess sins they could not commit. Ed.
[9] This just reprover begins very fairly by wilfully perverting his opponent's language, 'a prison with a low window,' he makes 'a low prison.' We very much suspect the minister himself had a hand in this pamphlet.
[10] This word is interlined, and the word inqueist scored out.
[11] His farewell cup.
[12] Probably Ravenscraig Castle, at the east end of Pathhead. Ed.
[13] Who preached the famous coronation sermon of Charles II. at Scone, January 1st 1651.
[14] See his declaration, page [111].
[15] Thin clay or mud.
[16] Her grave is still to be seen at the west end of the town, marked with a large stone.—Ed.
[17] The Reverend Allan Logan, the minister, is still famous all over the country for his skill in discovering witches; and used, when administering the Sacrament, to say, "You witch wife get up from the table of the Lord," when some unhappy old woman would have risen, imagining she was pointed at, and it was well if it did not afterwards cost her her life. Daft or not, he was certainly a most wretched fanatic of the worst description.—Ed.