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    finished his course in peace , and in honou r * No wonder that he was weary of the world , and anxious to depart ; and with great propriety might it be said , at his decease , that ** he rested from his labours * " On Wednesday , the 26 th of November , he was interred in the church-yard ofSu Giles ; his funeral was attended by the newly elected regent , Morton , by all the

    nobility who were in the city , and a great concourse of people . When his body was laid in the grave the Regent emphatically pronoipnced his eulogium , in the well known words , ** There lies he who never feared the face of man . '

    Several foreign writers published verses , and other eulogiums orj this truly great man : those placed under a poitrait of Knox , in a work published by Jacobus Verheiden , at the Hague , in \ 60 % were as follow :

    Scottorum prirnum te Ecclesia , Cnoxe , docentetn , Audiit , auspiciis estque redacta tuis . Nam te caekstis pietas super omnia traxit , Atque Reformats Religionis amon *

    Imitation . Thee Scotia ' s Church her earliest teacher claim'd , Intrepid Knox ; by thec again was fram'd

    Her scatter ed pile , for true celestial fire Bade thy undaunted spirit never tire . The Reformation , lov'd beyond control , O ' er every danger bore thy ardent soul .

    There are , perhaps , few who have attended to the active and laborious exertions of Knox who

    ? Translation . m thce , Knox , the Scottish Church listened as her first instructor , and wader thy auspices was she restored . For celestial piety and love of the reformed teligton , attracted thee above all thing * .

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    have not been insensibly led to form the opinion that he was of a robust constitution ^ This is , however , a mistake * He was of small stature , and of a weakly habit of body ; a circumstance which serves to give us a higher idea of the vigour of his mind .

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    No . IV . Some Account of Mrs . Welch , daughter of John Knox . Elizabeth , the third daughter of the Reformer , was married to John Welch , minister of Ayr . Mrs . Welch seems to have inherited a

    considerable portion of her father ' s spirit , and she had her share of hardships , similar to his . Her husband was one of those patriotic ministers who resisted the arbitrary measures of James VI * for

    overturning the government and liberties of the Presbyterian church of Scotland . Being determined to abolish the General Assembly , James had , for a considerable time , prevented the meetings of

    that court by successive prorogations , Perceiving the design of the court , a number of the delegates from synods resolved to keep the diet which had been appointed to be held at Aberdeen , in July

    1605 . They merely constituted fhe assembly and appointed a day for its next meeting , and being charged by Laurieston , the king ' s commissioner , to dissolve , immediately obeyed . But the commissioner having antedated the charge ,

    several of the leading mernbeis were thrown into prison . Welch , and five of his brethren , when called before the privy council , declined that court as incompe ! - tent to judge the offence of which they were accused , according t <*

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    Extracts from M Crie * s Life of Knox . 453

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/5/