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Indeed, there are not many uproars in this world more dismal than that of the Sabbath bells in Edinburgh: a harsh ecclesiastical tocsin; the outcry of incongruous orthodoxies, calling on every separate conventicler to put up a protest, each in his own synagogue, against "right-hand extremes and left-hand defections."
He fired the house; shot down those who escaped; if a prisoner were made, gave him up to the Bishop's Court. Benoit, my poor good Benoit, who used to lead my palfrey, was first wounded, then tried, and burnt burnt in the PLACE at Lucon! I heard Narcisse laugh laugh as he talked of the cries of the poor creatures in the conventicler. My own people, who loved me!
Indeed, there are not many uproars in this world more dismal than that of the Sabbath bells in Edinburgh: a harsh ecclesiastical tocsin; the outcry of incongruous orthodoxies, calling on every separate conventicler to put up a protest, each in his own synagogue, against 'right-hand extremes and left-hand defections. And surely there are few worse extremes than this extremity of zeal; and few more deplorable defections than this disloyalty to Christian love.
We heard that he had sworn that it was as bad as being in a Scotch conventicler to have cowls and hoods creeping about your bed before you were dead, and that Harry had routed them like a very St. George. I was summoned to the Luxembourg Palace on the Tuesday in Holy Week, the 25th of March.
I'm for any thing that's out of the common Road of Sin; I love a Man that will be damn'd for something: to creep by slow degrees to Hell, as if he were afraid the World shou'd see which way he went, I scorn it, 'tis like a Conventicler No, give me a Man, who to be certain of's Damnation, will break a solemn Vow to a contracted Maid. Sir Tim.
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