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Guthrie be never so merry, he was presently in a frame for the most spiritual duty, and the only account I can give of it, says wise Wodrow, 'is, that he acted from spiritual principles in all he did, and even in his relaxations. Poor Guthrie had a terrible malady that preyed on his most vital part continually a malady that at last carried him off in the mid- time of his days, and, like Solomon in the proverb, he took to a merry heart as an alleviating medicine.
The duke, during his abode in Scotland, had behaved with great civility towards the gentry and nobility; and by his courtly demeanor had much won upon their affections: but his treatment of the enthusiasts was still somewhat rigorous; and in many instances he appeared to be a man of a severe, if not an unrelenting temper. * Burnet, vol. i. p. 583. Wodrow, vol. ii. p. 169.
'Rather incredulous, as he says, Delacourt went to the lad, who had communicated, as he believed, unworthily, and was therefore a prey to religious excitement, which, as Bishop Callaway found among his Zulu converts, and as Wodrow attests among 'savoury Christians, begets precisely such hallucinations as annoyed the early hermits like St. Anthony.
We are attended by a virtuous sprite who raps and moves tables as was a pious man mentioned by Bodin and a minister cited by Wodrow. We work miracles and prophesy, like Mr. Blair of St. Cameron, minister of Lochend, or Loch-Head, in Kintyre . If we are dissolute, and irreligious like Lord Lyttelton, or like Middleton, that enemy of Covenanters, we see ghosts, as they did, and have premonitions.
It turned out that Martha had been in some peril at sea, but got safe into Leith Roads at six in the morning. A clairvoyant dream was also vouchsafed to Dr. Pitcairn, though 'a Jacobite, and a person of considerable sense, as Wodrow quaintly remarks about another individual.
The Wodrow volumes should be studied throughout by every lover of his church and his country, and especially by every student of divinity and church history. But we need go no further than Samuel Rutherford's letter-bag; for, when we open it, what rich treasures of the religious life pour out of it! What minds and what hearts those men and women had!
It seems that there was some apprehension of a rescue; for a strong body of fusileers was under arms to support the civil power. The preachers who were the boy's murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and, while he was struggling in the last agony, insulted Heaven with prayers more blasphemous than any thing that he had ever uttered. Wodrow has told no blacker story of Dundee.
Examples of insane and morbidly sensitive ghosts. 'Le revenant qui s'accuse s'excuse. Raising the devil in Irvine. Mode of evocation. Wodrow. His account of Margaret Lang, and Miss Shaw of Bargarran. The unlucky Shaws. Lord Torphichen's son. Cases from Wodrow. Lord Middleton's story. Haunted house. Wraiths. Lord Orrery's ghost no metaphysician. The Bride of Lammermoor. Visions of the saints.
This is said to be recorded in the registers of the Presbytery of Fordoun, but Wodrow is vague about the whole affair. We next come to a very good ghost of the old and now rather unfashionable sort. The authority is Mr. William Brown, who had it from the Rev. Mr. Mercer of Aberdalgie, 'as what was generally belived as to Dr.
"For," he went on, "if they had followed us they had certainly killed or taken us all." It is clear, therefore, that whatever Claverhouse might have done had he been left to himself, or whatever he may have wished to do what he did do was, in common with the rest of the army, to obey his superior's orders. Wodrow, iii. 93. Wodrow, iii. 107. Creichton, pp. 37-8.
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