3;14 MEMOIRS of PERIOD xI. The everlaftingFather, The Prince of peace." for my ordinary; the which l treated of at large ; and then added thereto feveral fermons on believing the report concerning him, on If. lüi. 1. Who .ha_th believed our report ? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ?" and concluded thefe fuhjeas Aug. I2 *. Having put. the etlày on the text of Genefis into Mr Gordon's hand, 1 liad, at his delii're, another interview with him, in the latter end of November, at Edinburgh, where he gave me forne remarks upon it. Both this and the former journey to Edinburgh, were undertaken purely on the head of meeting with hire ; by which I felt my bondage. At that time, I left with him the firlt part of the Latin. etfay on the accentuation, which I had completed by the 5th of September. And he .prornífed me his tettirnony thereto, providing' he fhould be fatistied therewith in the main, as he had been with the Englifh effay : and after- wards he wrote 'me, that he was ib fatistied. Neverthelefs to this day I have not feen it, however I have tugged for it. At the fanie time I waited on Mr William Hamilton, Pro- feflör of Theology in the college of Edinburgh, who treated me very civilly. And having defired him to revife it, when Mr Gordon Mould put it into his hand, he readilyconfented there- to ; I allowing him, at his delire, to confult Dr Crawford Pro fefror of Hebrew in That college thereupon. I had, in the end of the preceding year, received a letter from my Lord Grange, of the date Dec. 13. 17'25, wherein, upon a perutal of the effay on the text, in the fpace of three or four hours, which had colt me near as many years, he "fhewed his difld e of my notion of the heavens, Gen. i. 1. but efpecially of the waters above the firmament, as a eolleaion of waters above the ftarry heavens ; adding his remembrance of an old tolaftic interpreter having faid force fuch thing before. To this I made a return with all becoming refpe&, regretting his having lb very little time for perufing that MS. and candidly pointing to the reafon of my interpretation ; withal giving him a good many valuable authorities in favour of my notion of the waters aforeftid, among whom were Pfeiffer, and Gregory of Oxon, a noted mathematician as well.as a divine; and its being a common opinion among the,Lutherans. But fence that time I heard no more from him. And waiting on himagain, at this time as I reckon, I found himquite llrange and cold. Thus was t deferted by him, after putting me upon the new workof writing the effay in Latin, as above narrated. Whether his dilguft of the efrity on the text, on thefe few hours reacting, or my letter in return to his, or both, occafìoned his tatting "me off, I know not ; but thus was I taught, not to trait in princes. All the remaining part of this year, I preached on refignation to the will of God in afrli&ting providences, from 1 Sann. iii. IS. It is the Lord, let him do what feemeth him good ;" and on "All thefe fermons were publifhed in a volume in I755.
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