Another fact is brought out by Mr Brown's testament, and that is, that his father was twice married, and left two sons, Thomas and James Brown, and one daughter, Marion Brown, by the second marriage. There is another fact not so prominent, but worthy to be noticed, that Mr Brown's sister, Elizabeth, never before heard of, had been married to a person named Thomas Scott, and that they, though gone before him, had left a family. We hope to hear that there are some of the seed of the righteous yet remaining, and that, in the words of the Psalmist, though it may be in comparative obscurity, they are not begging their bread. Patrick, and perhaps others of the first family, seem to have died unmarried, or without leaving any i sue. How honourable for Mr Brown that he was able, and did wisely and righteously divide his little fortune, which, independent of king and clergy, the Lord had bestowed upon him.

CHAP. IV.

We shall now proceed to give a list of Mr Brown's publications, and the times and places when and where they were printed, with some mention of their merits.

1. Apologetical relation of the particular sufferings of the faithful ministers and professors of the Church of Scotland, since August 1660; with a brief History of the Church from the earliest periods, pp. 424, 18mo. 1665. This is reckoned the ablest of Mr Brown's works. It is a defence of the Scottish Covenanters. It was felt at the time to be the most triumphant vindication of the suffering cause, and the severest blow to the dominant faction. the copies of it that could be found in Scotland were bought up and consigned to the flames; and those who were found to possess it were severely fined and imprisoned, and, in some instances, compelled to fly to the continent for safety.

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2. Libri Duo, contra Wolzogenium et Velthusium. 12mo. Amsterdam, 1670.

This we would not have noticed, had it not cost the author time and labour. It is now scarcely worth a perusal, the cause being removed for which it was written.

3. De Causa Dei, adversus Anti-Sabbabbatarios, 2 vols. quarto, pp. 757 and 1012. Rotterdam, 1674-6,

This controversy is not, and will not soon be, obsolete; till the Sabbath is kept scripturally holy, it must be agitated. The controversy may change its aspect and its arguments; but the moral or obligatory power of the Sabbath can never change. There is no command of the Decalogue that needs more, and deserves better to be supported and enforced by the civil magistrate, than the fourth. Not that we reckon him always the most proper, but he is certainly the most effective arbiter. As justification by faith in the atonement and righteousness of Jesus Christ is the article of a standing or falling church, so the scriptural observance and sanctification of the Sabbath is, in our opinion, the article of a prospering or declining state. It is very proper to say to those who attempt to run stage and railway coaches, "Such things cannot be allowed in our country." But is this laying the axe to the root of the evil? Is Sabbath walking and travelling, and even working beyond the boundaries of necessity and mercy, to be tolerated? Is the Sabbath to be permitted in many ways to be the worst spent day of the seven? Is it to be known and winked at that gentlemen and elders of the church, even clergymen, read the public journals and such like publications on the Sabbath-day, and that business men are frequently employed in their chambers and counting-houses on the Sabbath, many of them members, and some of them elders in the church, and never called publicly or privately to order? Is it utterly impracticable to return to the practice of the purest times of the Church, or even to the manner in which the Sabbath was sanctified in the much vituperated time of the usurpation? Have the same persevering efforts been made to get the Sabbath duly sanctified, that have been made to get the Church. extended and endowed? If the whole ministers and members of the established and other churches, who hold the binding obligation of the moral law as a rule of life, cannot be got to rise as one man, and come to the help of the Lord against the mighty, should not all those simultaneously unite who are of one mind, and then it would be seen who are decidedly on the Lord's side. Those clergymen and laymen who count the Sabbath a weariness, and say, When will it be gone," would then be partly discovered, and the unflinching advocates of Sabbath sanctification would know with whom they have scripturally to contend. It is mere trifling to inquire if

the statutes already enacted are sufficient to meet every case, were they even executed to the fullest extent. It must have been passing strange if our forefathers have exhausted all legislation upon the proper observance of this one commandment of the Decalogue, and upon no other of the unalterable ten. Had Mr Brown and Mr Macward, and others who were brought before councils and rulers for Christ's glorious crown and kingdom, been now alive, they would have raised their voices against their brethren who plead for sinful indulgences. Where are now the Bostons, and Erskines, and Gillespies of former days? How would they have opposed and testified against this desecration of the Sabbath. There may be a wonderful zeal shown in bringing the defenceless to justice, and more than justice, and letting the lauded and befriended escape; but the gangrene will subtilely and secretly eat on, till the whole fabric falls with an overwhelming crash, so that both the altar and the throne will be shivered to atoms. There should be no respect of persons in judgment. There should be no toleration of iniquity, no partiality, no hypocrisy. Till Sabbath sanctification be observed by great and small, rich and poor, noble and ignoble, the Lord will have a controversy with the land; the enemies of the cross will multiply; and the wrath of God will come not only upon the children of disobedience, but the servants of God will also be overwhelmed in the general and awful catastrophe. The people who love and wish to obey the law, should send the Agnews and Colquhouns to Parliament, without the least regard to Whig or Tory. The nobility who wear coronets and pray, should enforce the sanctification of the Sabbath on their tenants and dependents, and should select such probationers as will not be lukewarm or remiss about a cause of such magnitude. Then would we no more be termed forsaken, neither should our land any more be termed desolate; but we would be called Hephzibah, and our land Beulah, for the Lord would delight in us, and our land would be married; for as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so would our God rejoice over us.

We are perfectly certain that the subject of this memoir, who availed himself of every argument that was calculated to promote the sanctification of the Sabbath in his day, and who has left behind him a work in Latin upon the subject, to which little can be added, would have met every modern argument for Sabbath profanation with what is paramount to all argumentation" Thus saith the Lord, Remember the Sabbathday, to keep it holy." We follow up these remarks with the

sentiments of the Rev. Christian Frederick Swartz, a Protestant missionary from the government of Denmark to Tranquebar, in the East Indies, and in the same character by the Society in England for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, from July 1750, to the 13th February, 1798, when he died. He was the mean of converting from six to seven thousand of Hindoos of every caste. In a letter written from Tanjore, March 26, 1786, he says, "I need not tell you that the institution of the Sabbath is altogether divine, and therefore holy and beneficial. It is a cheering proof of God's kindness to us. It was instituted before the fall, to preserve Adam and Eve in their wisdom, holiness, and justice; consequently, to confirm them in that divine likeness which God had granted them. By this you plainly perceive that his intention was to preserve them in their purity and happiness. Adam was the teacher; Eve the disciple; both adored God every day, but particularly on the Sabbath. Happy couple! Was the celebration of the Sabbath necessary before the fall, how much more now after it, to awaken the mind to a lively knowledge of God; to increase in knowledge, faith, love, and hope of everlasting life! No doubt, we are to attend to all this every day; but particularly to set our mind to it every Sabbathday. On that day we are to exclude worldly thoughts as much as possible, even those that are allowable on other days. The works of creation, redemption, and sanctification, ought to be our chief meditation. Likewise ought we also to exclude all worldly conversations, even that which is allowable on other days. It should turn upon the word and works of God; prayer and edifying converse should be maintained on that day. Moreover, worldly actions (except those of necessity and mercy) should be excluded. To frequent the congregation of Christians should be a delight to us. Then may we expect a blessing from God. Moses uses these two words, God sanctified that day; that is, He appointed it to mankind to become holy, or persevere in holiness, and blessed it; that is, he appointed it as a day of blessing, to make them partakers of the best blessings, pardon of sin, peace of mind, and hope of future glory. Was this God's intention in instituting that day? Then may we well sit down and weep over ourselves and our fellow-creatures." How is this day profaned! Alas! alas! The opinion of this apostolic missionary would (we had almost said) be enough to cause all men consecrate the Sabbath-day. Scarcely for a righteous man will one die; peradventure, for a good man some would even dare to

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die," said a missionary even still more highly raised and still more to be followed than Swartz. If, according to Paul, some would even dare to die for a truly good man, in every sense of the word, then such was this individual who was born at Sonenburg of Neumark, in the kingdom of Prussia, October 26, 1726. The East India Company have inscribed upon a monument they erected to his memory, this among other eulogiums "That he, during a period of fifty years, went about doing good, manifesting, in respect to himself, the most entire abstraction from temporal views, and embracing every opportunity of promoting both the temporal and eternal welfare of others. Beloved and honoured by Europeans, he was, if possible, held in still deeper reverence by the natives of the country, of every degree and of every sect; and their unbounded confidence in his integrity and truth was on many occasions rendered highly beneficial in the public service. The poor and the injured looked up to him as an unfailing friend and advocate; the great and powerful concurred in yielding him the highest homage ever paid in this quarter of the globe to European virtue. The late Hyder Ali Cawn (they add), in the midst of a bloody and vindictive war with the Carnatic, sent orders to his officers to permit the venerable Father Swartz to pass unmolested, and show him respect and kindness, for he is a holy man, and means no harm to my government."

W. Duffin, Esq. of York, who knew him well, thus declares" His indefatigable zeal in propagating the Christian religion has never been surpassed. Whenever he travelled, and rested at a village for his palankeen bearers to refresh themselves, the natives collected around him, listened to him with the greatest attention, and paid him every respect. His cheerful countenance and pleasing manner impressed them with an earnest desire to hear him.

"For letting down his golden chain from high,
He drew his audience upward to the sky.'

The zeal of Swartz was untinctured by fanaticism, and undebazed by extravagance, eccentricity, intolerance, or harshness, whether of spirit or expression. It was a mild, pure, and steady flame, which did not astonish, much less alarm, by any sudden, violent, or fitful blaze; but like the sun of righteousness, or the day spring from on high, by whose rays it was kindled, and by whose influence it was nourished and preserv

It enlightened, healed, and cherished those who were dis