conformit

Updated: May 20, 2025

John Renwick, one of our Covenanter martyrs, was my ideal of a Christian, and when he lay in the Edinburg prison under sentence of death, his weeping friends begged him to conform and save his life. They said to him: "Dinna ye think that we, who ha' conformit may be saved?" "Aye, aye. God forbid that I should limit his grace." "An' dinna ye think, ye too could be saved and conform?" "Oh, aye aye.

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm - Half a Century