This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... and so famous men as ye could require: this I take to be the only thing whereon ye stand, which I think may be obtained to you most readily. As for formalities ye wont not to be carefull: I am hopefull, when the practise of Conformitie is put in your will, ye will not be stout for it, if ye see that the urgeing of it is mainely to put away the best and ablest opposites to popery out of the land; and that their removers are avowing, so fast as they can, the grossest poynts of popery, in print, with applause and advancement for that only cause; if ye see that, I know ye have a tender heart and will not for your life, let be places, doe any thing which may truely further so wicked a plott. That it is no lesse then popery in grosse which the Canterburian faction is now aiming at, I stryve to shew in thir Quaeries which here I send you; I doe it farther in another little write of Paralelle of our Service with the Masse and Breviarie, which I shall send yow if ye like this. However, doe what ye will, subscryve or not subscryve, be assured of my high estimation of yow, and affection to yow, and confidence of your zeall and orthodoxie; trusting that when the subscryvers of this Covenant are made away, either banished, or made foulie to recant, which I feare shortly, (if God avert not, ) that ye and sundry other of your brethren shall begin where we have left, and be ready with your blood to seall the truth of God as fervently as the forwardest of us. Only let me intreat you most earnestly, as ye would refresh my heart singularly, subscryve this write so shortly as ye can with any condition ye can obtain from your Commissioners: there is no hand now in Scotland which I doe so much desire at it as yours. Thir in great haste and confusion as.