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proof of what I am upon While living at Glasgow , my father was denounced and forced to go out of the way for some days . In his absence a Presbyterian minister or preacher , ? a friend of his , came to see her at tier house . An information had been lodged agaie&t him , and a party of soldiers had a com . mission to apprehend him . He had been observed , by one who was dogging him , to come up to my father ' s house ; immediately the soldiers were
acquainted , and five or six came and found him with my mother , and told him he was their prisoner . They were in the hall , which was the room that was the first landing-place in the house , the common entry to the rest of the rooms , and had the common door to the whole in it . The children were out , and only a servant within . Mrs . Wodrow , when the soldiers came in , put on a very cheerful countenance , and desired them to sit down till her friend ( 1 think it was Mr . James Hay ) went into another room and put on clean linens ,
since he must go to prison ; and ordered the servant to the cellar to bring up some ale to the gentlemen , f and gave her orders as unobservedly as she could , to put the key into the door , as she came up , and after she had set down % he ale to go out again . My mother entertained the soldiers the best way might be , with bread and drink , till her husband ' s friend came to them ; ana when she had got him near the door , under pretext of speaking to him , she quietly turned him out before her , and pulled the door with the key with
her , and locked the party fairly in . The soldiers , too late , found themselves fairly tricked , and bawled out at the windows terribly , and threatened bloodily . Meanwhile Mr . Hay ( I shall call him ) got fairly off , and my mother sent up one of the neighbours to open the door , and let out the prisoners . They searched for her in the neighbourhood , and found her not , and not thinking proper to propalej the trick put on them , she met with no further trouble at that time /*—Pp . 55—57 .
Professor Wodrow ' s method of teaching Divinity is amply described . We shall copy some of his advices to the Theologues : " 44 You may remember I have told you , that the school learning of humanity and philosophy is of perpetual use to you , and that things more necessary must be preferred to things less necessary , and a competency of them kept by repetition as subservient to your main design . "
44 Give more time to the reading of the Holy Scriptures , 2 Tim . iu . 5 . Keep what you have learned , 2 Tim . iii . 14 . * ? * There are many" mistakes here , such as thinking if once you are masters of what you are learning , you will not forget it ; ana that when you are making some progress in your studies , it is below you either to give or take account of yourselves , as to what you formerly have learned and understood . "
" Do not satisfy yourselves with a superficial and indistinct knowledge of what you read ; but continue to read and meditate on what you are about , till you have some satisfaction on each point , before you . go on to another . " Be much and frequent in revising what you have formerly read and received ; and at every revising make some reflections on what you have , received only fide huroana , and by education , and what truths you have received upon their own , evidence , etfide divina , and consequently , observe carefully what tenets of the . common opinion , both among philosophers and divines , appear grounded on self-evidence and the Scriptures , and are to be received fide divina , and what not ; particularly what of the
commonly-* In the Scottish Church a preacher is a licensed minister not yet placed , or settled with a parochial charge . f The soldiers employed on these occasions looked for such entertainment . Some of our readers will recollect a scene described in the first edition of Old Mortality , % A Scottish word occurring iu Wodrow ' a Hist ., &c ., and elsewhere . It obviously moans to dUclose . In the same dialect we havepropine , propone ¦ , Sec .
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404 Lift of Professor Wodrbw .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/36/
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