But let us not despond, but do our duty; God will carry on that blessed work, in despite of all opposites, and to their ruin if they persist therein.
"Sir, my humble request is that you would proceed, and give us that other member of the distribution mentioned in your book: viz.

that Hire doth greatly impede truth and liberty.

It is like, if you do, you shall find opposers; but remember that saying,_'Beatius est pati quam frui,'_ or, in the Apostle's words, James V.11.
[Greek: Makarizomen tous hypomenontas] ['We count them happy that endure'].

I have sometimes thought (concurring with your assertion) of that storied voice that should speak from heaven when Ecclesiastics were endowed with worldly preferments, _'Hodie venenum infunditur in Ecelesiam'_ ['This day is poison poured into the Church']; for, to use the speech of Gen.IV.

_ult._, according to the sense which it hath in the Hebrew, 'Then began men to corrupt the worship of God.' I shall tell you a supposal of mine; which is this:--Mr.Durie has bestowed about thirty years' time in travel, conference, and writing, to reconcile Calvinists and Lutherans, and that with little or no success.