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champion for the Proteſtant faith. The many calamities which he foretold, ſhould befall the church of Scotland are alſo verified in the many Schiſms and Hereſies in doctrine and diſcipline which have crept into the ſame, and which have occaſioned the many diviſions which have happened there ſince the cloſe of Mr. Logan's days. Time would fail us to give a particular deſcription of all thoſe Hereſies, their riſe and progreſs, fruits and effects. The editor Thomas Stevenſon of Culroſs begs leave to refer the readers of this remembrancer to the many controverfies which have been publiſhed between the ſeveral parties in theſe diviſions, theſe 50 years by paſt, and now prevail in Ayr and elſewhere with more threatning aſpects than ever. But thanks be to GOD we have a more ſure word of prophecy, to which we'll do well to take heed.
Exract of a Letter from Mr. Allan Logan to the Reverend Mr. Hamilton ſometime Miniſter of the goſpel in Stirling.
MY dearly beloved Brother in Jeſus Chriſt, and fellow labourer in his goſpel; your thoughts concerning Zion in the latter age of the world, which you intimated to me at parting; bath been the whole of my ſtudy through the day, and my meditation in the night, I find your judgement on certain Authors is what I can attain to and no further, the prophets indeed ſpeak of the time, but the dates are not clear, at leaſt to my comprehenſion: But the Lord who knows bur ſpirits is weighted with love, even deſire of the foreknowledge, of the well-being of our mother church here militant on earth; which ought to be the concern of all the lovers of truth: The Lord himſelf knows the perplexity of ſpirit I have been in for three weeks together upon this very head, yet he hath been pleaſed to give me a glimpſe of light beyond that of nature; whether in the body or out of the body, God knoweth, I cannot tell: I was as a man full of words
