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that I could not bear it ;" and then added, "Get me my cloak and let us go." But being told that the clock was kept back till the bailies, [i. e. the aldermen] fhould come, he answered, "They are all in the wrong ;" and immediately kneeled down and prayed before all that were prefent, in a moft fweet and heavenly manner. Juft when he finished his prayer, the bailies fent him word to come down, upon which he called for a glass of wine, and asked a bleffing upon it; and continuing in the fame calm and devout frame, he said, "Now let us go, and God be with us."

He then took leave of all those in the room who were not to go along with him to the fcaffold, and faid, "I could die like a Ro man, but chufe rather to die like a Chriftian. Come away gentleman, he that goes firft, goes cleanlieft." When going down the stairs, he called the Rev. James Guthrie to him and embraced him in a most affectionate manner, and bade farewell to him. Mr. Guthrie faid, " God hath been with you, he is with you, and he will be with you; and fuch is my affection for your lordship, that if I were not under fentence of death myself, I could moft chearfully die in your ftead." So they parted to meet in a better place on the Friday following, when Mr. Guthrie alfo died by the hands of the executioner.

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The marquis, accompanied by feveral noblemen and gentlemen dreffed in black, went down the street, and mounted the fcaffold with remarkable ferenity of mind, and with a grave countenance, like one who was going to his father's houfe. He respectfully bowed to all who were prefent. Then Mr. Hutchinson prayed. After which his lordship delivered his dying fpeech, and among many other things he said, I am not come here to justify myfelf, but the Lord, who is holy in all his ways, righteous in all his works; holy and blessed is his name. Neither do I intend to con demn others; for, I blefs the Lord, I forgive all men, and defire to be pardoned of the Lord myfelf. Let the will of the Lord be done, that is all I defire. I was fincere and cordial in my defires to bring the king home, and in my endeavours for him when he was at home, and had no correfpondence with the adverfaries army, nor with any of them, while his majefty was in Scotland; nor had I any hand in his late majesty's murder. I fhall not speak much respecting thofe things for which I am condemned left Ifhould feem to condemn others. It is well known that I am condemned for compliance with the then ruling powers, which was the epidemical fault of the whole nation. I wish the Lord to

pardon them. I fay no more: But God hath laid engagements upon Scotland. We are bound by covenants to religion and reformation; those who were then unborn are still engaged, and it is beyond the power of all the magiftrates under heaven to abfolve us from the oath of God. Thefe times are likely to be times of great finning, or of great fuffering, and let Chriftians make their choice; there is a fad dilemma in the business, fin or iuffer: And furely he who chooses the better part will choose to fuffer;

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and others who will choofe to fin, will not efcape fuffering. They will fuffer, but perhaps not in the fame way that I do, but abundantly worfe. For mine is but temporal, theirs will be eternal. When I fhall be finging, they will be howling. Beware therefore of fin, whatever you do, especially in thefe dangerous times. My condition is fuch now, (as will be feen when I am gone) to be not fuch as many have imagined. I with that as the Lord hath pardoned me, fo he may pardon them, both for this and other things; and that they may never be called to account for what they have done to me. I have no more to say, but to beg the Lord that when I go away, he may blefs all that are left behind."

Having finifhed his fpeech, Mr. Hamilton prayed, the Marquis likewife prayed moft devoutly, and then took leave of all his friends who were on the scaffold. He gave the executioner an handkerchief with fome money in it, and fmall presents to his friends. Then taking off his coat, and going to the maiden (the inftrument of execution) Mr. Hurchinfon faid, My lord, now hoid faft your confidence in God. He anfwered, "You know, Mr. Hutchinson, what I said to you in the chamber. I am not afraid left I fhould be furprifed with fear." The laird of Shelmerline took him by the hand, when near the maiden, and found him quite compofed. He then kneeled down most chearfully, and after he had prayed a little, gave the fignal, which was by lifting up his hand, and the inftrument ftruck off his head; which was fixed on the west end of the tolbooth, as a monument of the king and parliament's injuftice, and of Scotland's mifery.

Thus died the marquis of Argyle, the proto-martyr for religion fince the reformation from Popery; the true portrait of whose character cannot be drawn. His enemies themselves will acknowledge him to have been a perfon of extraordinary piety, remarkable wifdom and prudence, great gravity and authority, and of fingular usefulness. He was the head of the covenanters in Scotland, and had been fingularly active in the work of reformation there; and of all those who acted in that work he stuck the closest to it; when moft of the nation quitted, he ftill ftood ftedfaft, fo that this attack upon him was a stroke at the root of all that had been done in Scotland, from the year 1638, to the ufurpation. And as he was a great fupporter of the reformation during his life, and ftedfaft in witnefling to it on his death, fo it was in a great degree buried with him in Scotland for many years. In a word, this great man was a deeply pious chriftian, an able privy counfellor, and had courage enough to die a martyr for the truth.

The grace of God, in all ages and perfons, whether high or low, has the fame effect upon the mind that enjoys it. As it comes from God, fo it leads to God; it gives a holy, heavenly, godlike difpofition to thofe who are made the happy partakers of it. And as we, in the prefent age, have the gospel of Chrift preached to us in its primitive purity and fimplicity, and have all the unfearchable

unfearchable riches of Chrift freely offered to us, fo we may close in with the gracious defigns of God, and experience the highest degrees of chriftian holiness, and expofe ourselves to no danger on that account: Through the abundant goodness of God, the laws of our country are of fuch a nature, that we are protected from the rage and violence of wicked and unreasonable men. How inexcufable then must we be, if we do not devote ourselves, wholly and unrefervedly, to God, and feek all our falvation in him?

Mrs: Doddridge's Letter.

The following LETTER, taken from Dr. Kippis's Life of Dr. Doddridge, prefixed to the octavo edition of the Family Expofitor, well deferves a place in the Arminian Magazine. It was written by Mrs. Doddridge from Lifbon, a few days after the Doctor's decease. It exhibits an almost unparalleled example of Chriftian Fortitude and Refignation under a heavy ftroke of Providence. May all who read Mrs. Doddridge's Letter, be enabled, in seasons of adverfity, to imitate her piety and entire fubmiffion to the divine difpofals!

My dear Children,

J. E.

Lisbon, Nov. 11, 1751.

HProvidence I would lay fomething to comfort you. And

WOW fhall I addrefs you under this awful and melancholy

I hope GOD will enable me to fay fomething that may alleviate your deep diftrefs. I went out in a firm dependence that, if Infinite Wisdom was pleased to call me to duties and trials as yet unknown, he would grant me thofe fuperior aids of ftrength, that would fupport and keep me from fainting under them; perfuaded that there was no diftress or forrow, into which he could lead me, under which his gracious and all-fufficient Arm could not fupport me. He has not disappointed me, nor suffered the heart and eyes directed to him to fail." GOD all-fufficient, and my only hope," is my motto: let it be yours. Such, indeed, have I found him; and fuch I verily believe, you will find him too, in this time of deep diftrefs.

Oh! my dear children, help me to praise him! Such fupports, fuch confolations, fuch comforts, has he granted to the meanest of his creatures, that my mind, at times, is held in perfect astonishment, and is ready to burst into fongs of praise under its most exquifite diftrefs.

As to outward comforts, God has with-held no good thing from me, but has given me all the affistance, and all the fupports, that the tendereft Friendship was capable of affording me, and which I think my dear Northampton Friends could not have exceeded. Their prayers are not loft. I doubt not but I am reaping the be nefit of them, and hope that you will do the fame.

VOL. XIX. Sept. 1796.

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I am returned to good Mr. K's. Be good to Mrs. K-. It is a debt of gratitude I owe for the great obligations I am under to that worthy family here. Such a folicitude of friendship was furely hardly ever known as I met with here. I have the offers of friendship more than I can employ and it gives a real concern to many here that they cannot find out a way to serve me. These are great honors conferred on the dear deceased, and great comforts to me. It is impoffible to fay how much these mercies are endeared to me, as coming in fuch an immediate manner from the Divine Hand. To his Name be the praise and glory of all!

And now, my dear children, what fhall I fay to you? Ours is no common lofs. I mourn the beft of Hufbands and of Friends, removed from this world of fin and forrow to the regions of im mortal blifs and light. What a glory! What a mercy is it that I am enabled with my thought to purfue him there! You have loft the dearest and beft of parents, the guide of your youth! and whofe pleasure it would have been to have introduced you into life with great advantages.

Our lofs is great indeed! But I really think the loss the public fuftained is ftill greater. But GOD can never want inftruments to carry on his work. Yet, let us be thankful that GOD ever gave us fuch a Friend; that he has continued him fo long with us. Perhaps, if we had been to have judged, we should have thought that we, nor the world, could never lefs have fpared him than at the present time. But I fee the Hand of Heaven, the appointment of his wife Providence, in every step of this awful Difpenfation. It is his Hand that has put the bitter cup into ours. And what does he now expect from us but a meek, humble, entire fubmiffion to his will? We know this is our duty. Let us pray for those aids of his Spirit, which can only enable us to attain it. A fa. ther of the fatherlefs is GOD in his holy habitation. As fuch may your eyes be directed to him! He will fupport you. And that he may, is not only my daily, but my hourly prayer.

We have never deferved fo great a good as that we have loft. And let us remember, that the best refpect we can pay to his memory, is to endeavour, as far as we can, to follow his example, to cultivate those amiable qualities that rendered him fo juftly dear to us, and fo greatly esteemed by the World. Particularly I would recommend this to my dear P. May I have the joy to fee him acting the part worthy the relation to fo amiable and excellent a Parent, whofe memory I hope, will ever be valuable and facred to him and to us all Under God, may he be a comfort to me, and a fupport to the family! Much depends on him. His lofs, I think, peculiarly great. But I know an all-fufficient GOD can over rule it as the means of the greatest good to him.

It is impoffible for me to tell you how tenderly my heart feels for you all how much I long to be with you to comfort and affift you. Indeed, you are the only inducement I now have left to with for life, that I may do what little is in my power to form and

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guide your tender years. For this purpose I take all poffible care of my health. I eat, fleep, and converfe at times with a tolerable degree of cheerfulness. You, my dears, as the best return you can make me, will do the fame, that I may not have forrow upon forrow. The many kind Friends you have around you, I am fure, will not be wanting in giving you all the affiftance and comfort that is in their power. My kindeft falutations attend

them all.

I hope to leave this place in about fourteen or twenty days. But the fooneft I can reach Northampton will not be less than fix weeks or two months time. May God be with you, and give us, though a mournful, yet a comfortable meeting! For your fakes, I trust my life will be fpared. And, I blefs God, my mind is under no painful anxiety as to the difficulties and dangers of the voyage.

The winds and the waves are in his hands, to whom I refign myself, and all that is dearest to me, I know I fhall have your prayers, and those of my dearest Friends with you. Farewell, my dearest children! I am your afflicted, but most fincere Friend, and ever affectionate Mother, M. DODDRIDGE.

The General DUTIES of MAN:

Tranflated from a German Book, entitled "The Guide of Youth."

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I. DUTY TOWARD THE CREATOR.

HREE things, my fon, conftitute the objects of thy Medita tion; the NATURE, the ORIGIN, and the END of

ΜΑΝ.

Man is a being, confifting of a body of aftonishing structure, and of a rational foul, united together. The lion is created to roar in the foreft; but man, endued with the gift of speech, is appointed to live in fociety with rational beings.

This noble existence man has not of himself; that Being, who is the Original of all things, likewife gave him his existence.

Life and death, time and eternity, all obey the laws of the Eternal. All acknowledge his Supremacy, from the powerful who wield the fceptre, to the humble who bear the shepherd's staff, But for what purpofe did the Supreme Being place thee on earth. Was it to live in fenfual pleafures?-to gather riches? - or, perhaps, to gratify thy ambition?

GOD created man in his image. By fin he loft that image. But before and fince his fall, GOD alone can conftitute his happiness. The great Creator requires of his creatures the performance of certain duties: but he himself will be the reward of their integrity. Let the fear of the Lord * govern thy heart: let it be the guid This must be a FILIAL fear, that flows from LOVE.

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