276 MEMOIRS OF PERIOb X. which was the only interruption it had met with, from the year 1710, that the courfe of it was begun. PERIODXI. From the tranfportation to Clofeburn refuted, to the notable breach in my health and alteration in my confiitution. AFTER this affair was over, my wife went from Edinburgh to her owncountry, to breathe her native air a while for her health, as had been advifed inher cafe. That the air of Etterick did not agree with her, was declared to us : and that was an argument bled by the purfuers for the tranfportation. It was alfo declared to me, by my dear friend Dr Trotter, that it would overcome me too at length. But what could we do for relief in the cafe, in the circumítances above narrated ? But as the of edsof the rebellion curedour_people of their un- natural fondnefs for public confuflons, fo that that difpofition never appeared among them fence, as before; fo the attempt to tram, fport me to Clofeburn, did bring them to themfelves with refpeét to me ; and made my life among them tolerabe. Howbeit, fince that time I have not wanted enough to keep me from for- getting where I am. On Sept. 18. there was, by appointment of our feffion, 'a congregational thankfgiving obferved, upon the account of the favourable iffue of the procefs aforefaid ; which was ground of thankfulnefs to me, as well as to the parifh. But to balance the vi&ory I had obtained, I came home from that ftruggle, witha fore rheumantic pain in my arm, which kept me a confiderable time after. On the thankfgiving-day Mr Henry . Davidfon minifter of Galafhiels, Mr Gabriel Wilfon, and I myfelf, preached. Mr Davidfon aforefaid was, by that time, become a third with Mr Wilfon and me, in our bond of ftria friendfhip : Aman of great gravity, piety, and tendernefs ; learned and judicious ; well acquainted with books; a great preacher, delivering in a taking manner, mafterly thoughts, in an unafieóted elevated ftyle; endowed with a gift of prayer, in heavenly oratory, beyond any man that ever I knew : extremely modelì, and referved in his temper ; but a kind and affeétionate friend. This friendship, moft comfortable, and ufeful as -a threefold cord, does by the mercy of God continue inviolated to this day. We have always been fo happy as to fpeak the fame thing in -public differences. I had fent in unto Mr John Flint, one of the minifters of Edinburgh, who had reviled the Fourfold State, and was noted for his (kill in the Hebrew tongue, two theetsof the performance on Ezekiel, above mentioned. And being in Edinburgh about the middle of November, he was pleated to tell me, that he
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