"He dyed very hastily, either of an apoplexy or pleurisy. He was hardly half an hour sick or unwell till he was in eternity. He had only these words, The Lord has helped, and He will help me!' It's said of him he often wished his passage to glory might be short, which was granted.

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"I have heard it said of him, that he was a great school-man. He said to some, that he was more beholden to his oun pen, and his oun papers, than to all his books; though he had a great library. He had many excellent sermons on Rom. viii., preached at Irwine 1671 and 1672. suppose he dyed preaching on that notable chapter. It's a great pity but they wer printed. He was chosen to be Chaplain to King Charles the Second with Mr James Durham, but I do not hear that he accepted of that place.

He, with Mr Wood and Mr John Livingstoun, was sent to bring over King Charles the Second from Breda, 1650. When there came on them a great storm, [the King] did usually cry, Toll the bell to pray.' And, after the Restauration, he was with his parliament framing wicked acts against the godly, Mr Hutcheson used to say, 'This looks not like, Toll the bell to prayers!"'

"The great and worthy Earl of Cassills did so esteem and value this great man, that I heard that he left him four hundred merks at his death.

"I heard that great saint, James Couie, speak much to Mr Hutcheson's commendation of his sermons on Job, hou much he was taken with them when he was servant to Judge Ker at Edinburgh. James thought, after these woefull differences 'twixt the Protesters and Resolutioners arose, there seemed to be some change in Mr Hutcheson to the worse, he thought he had more reflections on the rest of his brethren that differed from him.

“I heard he was once at the drauing up of the Remonstrance, but it was not long till he resiled from it. He told me also, that he perceived a sad change in worthy Mr Douglas after these sad differences.

"I remember when once James Couie came to a Communion at Irwine, Mr Hutcheson did presently take notice of James in the Church

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yeard, and that before all the people, and said, 'Honest James, is it you?' and spoke very kindly to him.

"I remember Mr Hutcheson had a sermon on the Communion Munday, at Irwine, on Isai. xxxviii. 15;* wherin he appeared to be much asisted, and to be in a very good melting frame; and was observed to weep much in that sermon, and uttered these words in the beginning of it, 'These words, (what shall I say?) are [the] top-swarm of this holy man's elevated thoughts and affections." And, in speaking on those words, 'Let me go, for the day breaketh,' he had this expression, that 'The Strenth of Israel seemed to put on weaknes.'

"He was reconed a great orator in his preaching. He preached on the week-day, Munday, at Irwine, on much of the Song of Solomon.

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"I remember he that writes the Answer to the History of the Indulgence speaks very well of Mr Hutcheson, p. 372, 373, in these words: 'I cannot pass his raking into the ashes of worthy Mr Hutcheson. If the comparison wer not a disparagment to a person of such worth, I would for grace, gifts, and all ministeriall abilitys of all sorts, for usefulnes in his generation, and service to his Lord and Master therein, and for usefulnes to the Church of God in after generations also, Mr Hutcheson was a person above the Historian; and that he was free both of pædantry and plagiary, his most usefull works left behind him does declare; wherin every thing is judiciously drauen out of the fountain of Holy Writ, and not by way of cloutryf out of human authors; and that he had the least tincture of the opinion of Videlius is a thing that cannot be made out from his writings or actings!

“Although I need not add any thing to this commendation of Mr Hutcheson, whose works praise him in the Churches, yet having had occasion to be intimately acquainted with him, and finding him misrepresented by some, I cannot forbear to do him right after his death; I representing him just as I found him in frequent conversing with him. I

• "What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul."

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found him to be a very lovely man, of a sweet, amiable, loving, and compassionat disposition; a man of great candor and ingenouity, and, though of eminent gifts, yet very louly and condescending to those of lou degree. I found him ready to receive light in Theology from these who wer every way inferior to him, as might be made out by many pregnant instances; and how much he was regrated, and his death lamented by the godly Ministers and Professors in the place he lived, and through the land, so well knouen and noture that is, that we need less to be at pains to clear it to any that is in this our Church; his name for eminency, and abilitys ministeriall of all kinds, and piety, being so savoury and famouse therin, and his works for the Churches good, so much aproven and applauded by eminent Divines abroad, together with the experience of godly and judiciouse Ministers and Professors at home, do sufficiently to the stopping of the mouths of all detraction and envy, commend him in the gate.'

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These, I suppose, are the words of great and worthy Mr Violant, late Minister at Cambusnethan, who dyed Professor of Divinity, and Principall of the Neu Colledge of Saint Andreus.

"I remember very well, that though my brother John* (nou Principall at Glasgou) was then but four or fyve years of age, Mr Hutcheson took nottice of him, and said, If John lived, he was very much mistaken if he did not prove a man indeed! And when my brother was like to die, Mr Hutcheson said, 'John, if ye dye at this time, ther will be moe sorry for you than your father and mother.' father and mother.' And when Mr Hutcheson wrote to my father, after he was come to Kilbarchan, anno 1672, he particularly bade my father remember him to John; and he prayed the Lord would make the harvest suitable to his present promising disposition. I heard Mr Hutcheson called, 'A golden balance to a Minister.'”

MR ALEXANDER DUNLOPE

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• The reader will remember that this portion of the Analecta was contributed by Mr James Stirling.

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to be collegue to Mr Colwart,* who was truly a very godly zealouse Minister, but was much laid by with his bodily weaknes. Mr Dunlop, after he came to Paislay, did wonderfully improve himself; as Mr Peeblis, Minister at Lochwinnioch, told me, he never kneu such a difference 'twixt a man in the beginning of his ministry and in the end of it as in Mr Dunlop; and the learned Mr James Vetch said to one about Mr Dunlop, that he really was made to wrong severall young men in causing them to come out too soon to the ministry; 'for,' said he, ‘Mr Dunlop judged that our young men, after they entered to the ministry, might improve themselves as much as he himself did; but it was not one of a hundred that was capable to do it.'

"Mr Peeblis also told me that he hardly kneu any Minister that had so many great gifts and graces given him as Mr Dunlop had, viz. great grace, and a great gift of preaching; great learning, and a great gift of disputing and arguing; and a great painfulnes in reading and studying, and in all his ministeriall work. In the whole week he lay but three whole nights in his bed, as his oun wife declared it to one from whom I had it. This, and to all these great gifts he sau added, as a great ornament to them all, that he was clothed with great humility, so that he thought highly of his honest bretheren that wer far inferior to him.

"When he had been one day at a Fast, preaching, he heard on of his brethren very far inferior to him at night lecture and speak a litle upon the chapter he had read. Mr Dunlop was so taken with what he delivered, that he said to one of his bretheren, I profess this man has said as much in a litle time, if not more, than we have said throu the whole day.'

"He had but feu words; he had but just so much as seemed to express his matter that he was to deliver. He had a strange gift and faculty of making very difficult things plain, even to the common people's capacitys; for he preached over the Arminian contraversys, in the pulpit, to the people; and he was made eminently successfull among his oun people, and even to many people throu the whole Presbitry; so that he was a great father to many Christians in that country.

"He was a man of great sincerity, and very communicative. He had [great pleasure?] in Divinity, as Mr [Alexander] Hastie told me, he would have sitten with him till ten of clock at night, proposing doubts to him, that he might resolve them, till his landlord, William Adam in Culros, would have come in, and said, 'Mr Hastie, you keep Mr Dunlop too late from his bed:' And Mr Dunlop would have said, 'No, William, he does not in the least trouble me; but he rather refreshes me by bringing things to my mind that I was nou ready to forget.' He would have said to Mr Hastie, Sanders, thir Arminians does not knou their oun heart that speak so of the pouer of free-will!'

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"He was most single and impartiall in his judgment of persons of worth, without respect of persons. He was one day commending to [Lady Ralston] Mrs Hastie; and he spake so much to her commendation, that Mr Hasty said to him, I wonder to hear you speak so much to the praise of that lady; I think you speak more of her than of oun wife.' He answered,Sanders, I love truly to be just to every body. I think my wife is truly a good woman, and all the rest of the sisters are good weemen; but I must say Lady Ralston is a person more than ordinary. I knou very feu comes her lenth ; yea, Sanders, I truly think shame to even myself to be a Christian beside her, when I look to her carriage. She is a very odd woman.'

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"He thought much of his son William. He would have said, 'Sanders, I have as much of him as I could expect to have of one of his years; he fills all calms.'* He was so very ingenouse that he said, 'I was truly very angry at my good Lady Ross, Mrs Helen Foster, for making so much of her only son, George, Lord Ross; but nou I am as guilty as she was in making too much of my son, William.'t He wrote much on the Confession of Faith.

"I heard that Mr Durham was one night with him at Paislay, and that he had left that book of his on the Confession on the table, in that chamber where Mr Durham was to lye. Mr Durham fell on it, and read the whole night on it, and went not to his bed. And when Mr Dunlop