260 MR`AIOIRS OF PERIOD X. Tufhilaw younger died alto not very long after. He was a man of a gentle difpofition, and likewife was endued with a principle of beneficence to®mankind ; fo that, dying before his father, he was much lamented, as a father of the country. Nov. 14. Being at Edinburgh to put my fon to the college, and all comfortable views I had had, as to the difpofing of him for his quarters, having failed, I was direóted to a ftranger : but there were force things in that cafe that difgufted me. I had laid the matter over on the Lord ; and, behold, at the nick of time, when I was come to the Taft point, juft going out at the chamber-door, to agree with that perfon for his quarters, becanfe I could do no better, one came to me, and told me of a religi- ous private family, which I knew nothing of, defirous of my acquaintance, and therefore of entertaining my fon. This'ap. peared to me the finger of God, and I lodged him there. This ítep of kind providence was big in myeyes. After I came home, I was perplexed as tò his learning, fearing his ruft in that point, íhould expofe him ; but within three weeks after, by a letter from the boy hitnfelf, I was delivered from that fear. Jan. 1. 1717. I fpent force time in prayer, and humiliation, concerning the affair of Clofeburn, my Rudy ofthe accentuation, the cafe offorce afllìóted in the partite, and force other parti- culars in my own cafe, and that of my family, and renewing my covenant with God, not without force foul-advantage in the time. By this time I had Peen the Lord's jealoufy n,gainft me, for finking fo far under my preffures: and againft the. people, for their having been fuch a burden to me. I had, on the 19th of the preceed ingAuguft, begun an ordinary of fubjeóts, for preffing unto the life and power of religion ; and in purfuance thereof preached on walking with God *, theRudy of the holy fcriptures f, and the obfervingof providences $. But while I was on the fweet fubjeót lait mentioned, I was, byfcandals abounding at that time, obliged to cut thort, and forced away from it, (the which hath oftener than once been my lot), unto the doótrine of repentance, which I began on Jan. 27. and, purfuirtg it from feveral texts, ended it not till the 2 t ft ofOótober , following §. But I had no fooner ended the fermons on obferving of providences, but, by the commencement of the procefs of tranfportation aforefaid, Providence did, in their fight and mine, begin a web, which filled both our hearts and hands, till in Auguft' following it was wrought out. So the very fiat of *The fermons on this fubje& are. printed in the volume, intitled The CIrilian Life delineated. t Thefe fermons are inferted in the author'sBody of Divinity, vol. 1. p 67. etfegq. f Thefe alfo are inferted in that work, vol. 1. p 260. et fegq.---All the three are juftly efteemed molt excellent difcourfes. § This whole courfe of fermons was publifhed in 1756, in a volume with other fermons, except fome on Prov. iii. 17. a confiderable part of which is now unhappily loft. The concluding difsourfe on that fubje& is inferted in the Body<of Divinity, vol. 3. p. 336.
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