Anecdote of Mr. Guthrie.
The late Mr. Guthrie, of Fenwick, when riding in the county of Angus, happened to lose his way in a moor, and after wandering awhile, he came to a cottage where a poor man was dying. Upon coming into the house he found a carnal minister endeavouring to comfort the poor man from the consideration of his own works, and not from the free grace and righteousness of the Lord Jesus. After the clergyman was gone, Mr Guthrie took occasion front the melancholy situation of the poor man, to instruct him, with respect to his sinful and miserable state by nature, and the glorious method recovery by grace through the righteousness and atonement of the great Redeemer, which was so blessed to him as proved the happy means of his conversion. Well might the poor man sing, “O to grace how great a debtor!”
Conversion of Gentleman by reading Mr. Flavel’s little “Treatise of Keeping the Heart.”
Mr. Flavel being in London in 1673, his old bookseller, Mr. Boulter, gave him the following relation, viz. “That some time before, there came into his shop a sparkish gentleman, to enquire for some play books; Mr. Boulter told him he had none: but shewed him Mr. Flavel’s little “Treatise of Keeping the heart,” intreated him to read it, and assured him it would do him more good than play books. The gentleman read the title, and glancing upon several pages here and there, broke out into these and such other expressions— ‘What a fanatic, who made this book?’ Mr. Boulter begged of him to buy and read it, and
