WAMPHRAY p. 663

Dec. 1861.-Publication-Account of the Parish (New St. Acc. iv.).--Steven’s Mena. of Heriot, Presb. Reg., Edin. Grad., &c.]

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Disjoined from Johnston after 20th Aug. 1622.

1632. J0HN HAITLIE, A.M., was laureated at the Univ. of Edinburgh 25th July 1618; he gave x li  toward building the library in the Univ. of Glasgow 1st Aug. 1632, continued 19th Jan. 1650, and died before 21st June 1661, when his widow had £50 allowed by Parliament in consideration of his being a sufferer for loyalty.-[Reg. Laur. Univ. Edin., Hun. Univ. Glasg. iii., Commiss. to Ass. 1638, Kirk Pap., Acts Parl. vii.]

1655. JOHN BROWN, A.M., probably born and educated at Kirkcudbright, took his degree at the Univ. of Edinburgh 24th July 1630. Though noticed by Rutherford in his correspondence as early as 1637, yet from not relishing Episcopacy, or being suspected by the Bishop, he was probably not settled earlier than 1655. He does not appear publicly, indeed, till deprived by the Acts of Parliament 11th June and 1st Oct. 1662, and is before the latter, 6th Nov. thereafter, accused of reproaching some of his brethren, and calling some of them perjured knaves and villains for attending the Diocesan Synod at Glasgow, on which he was committed " close prisoner in the tolbooth." After being kept there five weeks, to the impairing of his health and the danger of his life, he petitioned for a release which was granted 11th Dec. only on condition of “obliging himself to remove and depart off the king's dominions, and not returning without licence from his majesty and council, under pain of death." In consequence of this he expatriated himself, and went to Holland in March -following, where he exerted himself in composing works of practical divinity, and assisting his professional brethren, while his services were also highly esteemed. He was not without trials even there, however, as he came under the ban of the States General at the instigation of the government at home, or of their minions abroad. He died in Sept. 1679, aged about 69. His great wealth consisted in his library, as he bequeathed by his Testament 2d April 1676 "one hundred guilders to the poor of the Scottish congregation, Rotterdam, after the selling of his books," specially excepting the Complutensian Bible in six volumes, with his remarient gold, which he gave to his endeared friend and brother, Mr Robert M'Cuard, who said of him, " there was no minister in the Church, in my esteem, like him for abilities, fixedness, faithfulness, and pure zeal, according to knowledge."-Publications-Apologetical Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers and Professors of the Church of Scotland, 1665, 18mo. Libri duo, contra Woltzogenium et Velthusium. Amstel. 1670, 8vo. De causa Dei adversus Anti-Sabbatario, 2 tom, Rotterd. 1674-1676, 4to. Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Rotterd. 167 7, 12mo. Quakerisime the pathway to Paganisme, Rotterd. 16 7 8, 4to. The History of the Indulgence, 1678, 4to. Also the following posthumous works: The Life of Faith in Times of Trial, 1679, 18mo. The Swan Song, or secondpart, 1680, 12mo. The Life of Justification Opened, 1695, 4to. Christ in Believers the Hope of Glory, Edin. 1703, 18mo. Treatise on Prayer, 1720, 12mo. A Vindication of Fellowship Meetings, and of hearing suffering ministers, Edin. 1740, 8vo. An Explanation of the Epistle to the Romans, Edin. 1769, 4to.Enoch's Testimony Opened, Edin. 1771,