what kind of scruple that can be, I think passes the skill of any man in his right wits to imagine. However, there is this good in it, that it amuses them, and keeps their heads and tongues busy, which otherwise would not be so innocently employed. And truly I believe that the utmost that is to be expected from the best counsel, relating to this affair, is the preventing of mischief, and keeping things from running to extreme confusion. But for Church order and cordial agreement, I confess I have given over to look for it in these parts in our time. But had this change been either a little lower modelled at first, or at least as it was, a little more calmly managed, it might likely have attained much better reception and settlement long ere this time; but it was unhappily, and I fear irrecoverably lost, at first setting out, by too high and too hot and hasty counsels. And I look on it at present as a forlorn after-game; and nothing remains but to make the best that may be of it as it is." The tone of this letter has an edge of acerbity against the Covenanters one would scarcely have expected in Leighton. At the same time, his opinion regarding "the high, hot, hasty counsels" refers to Sharp and Fairfowl and Middleton's ejection of ministers. And what a stroke he throws into the picture of the wretched policy of the Government to recover the country, by calling it "a forlorn after-game"!

Leighton's resignation of Glasgow took place in August 1674. In the Maitland Miscellany, vol. iv. p. 293, the deed of demission is given, from the original among the Collections of Dawson Turner, Esq., as follows:

"Being resolved to retire to a private life I doe absolutely surrender and resign my present charge of the diocese of Glascoe to be disposed of as his Matie [Majesty] shall think fitt. R. LEIGHTON."

In the close of a letter to Lauderdale he gives his reasons: -1. The dreadful weight and charge of souls, and the inspec

tion required, and his sense of unfitness. 2. Continuing divisions and contentions of this Church, and the little or no appearance of their cure for our time. 3. The earnest desire he had long had of a retired and private life, which is now much increased by sickliness and old age drawing on, and the sufficient experience he had had of the folly and vanity of the world. And in a word, rerum humanarum fastidium. The same paper of Reasons is given in Bower's History of the University of Edinburgh (Edin. 1811), vol. i. Appendix vi., which was taken from a manuscript in the College.

NOTE X (page 38).

An

Leighton's Library is, next to the Cathedral, the most interesting historical memorial in Dunblane. Dean Stanley remarks, in his Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland, p. 113, that it "alone of inhabited ecclesiastical edifices in Scotland retains a mitre over the door." interesting account of the Library will be found in the Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. iii., edited by David Laing. Originally there were above 1500 volumes, which, according to a writer in Notes and Queries, were "the choicest works procurable in the age in which he lived, and afford an interesting and characteristic memorial of his mind and judgment." Upwards of 1200 volumes of Leighton's remain; over 100 are lost, and several are missing. Unfortunately the autographs of his own works, now printed, were not sent back to the Library. We note the names of some of the more important, omitting Patristic authors:

Commentaries, etc.-Ainsworth, Beza, Bolducius, Calvin (12 vols.), Capellus, Caryl, Dods, Fabricius, Fergusson (James), Grotius (12 vols.), Hammond, Heinsius, Helbart, Hutcheson, Leigh, Lemnius, Lightfoot, Dr. Owen, Buxtorff (12 vols.), Erasmus (9 vols.), Philo-Judaeus, Stella, Toletus, Vicars, Savonarola.

Sermons.-Daille, Marmet, Smith (John), Ward, Andrews, etc.

Devotional Works.-F. de Sales, Donne, Drexelius (13 vols.), Gerhard, Thomas à Kempis; Spiritual and precious Pearl; Arndts (1666), bound up with Luther's Hymn Book.

Contemporaries, etc.-Baxter (3), Lord Brook, Sir T. Browne, Bp. Burnet (8), Calderwood (D.), C. King, Digby, Forbes (2), Fuller, Gataker, Godwin (5), Gouge, Hales, Bp. Hall, Herbert (3), Howe, Sir G. Mackenzie, Hen. More, Sir T. More, Pascal, Patrick, S. Rutherfurd (3), Rous, Scougal (H.), Selden, Sibbes, Stillingfleet, Symson, Taylor (Jeremy) (14), Thorndyke (4), Twisse, Ussher (4), Walton, Wotton.

Some of these were special favourites, such as Smith of Cambridge, À Kempis, De Sales, etc. About 206 volumes contain Markings, Marginalia, or fine sayings, of which we have given some specimens in the text. In the Life of Leighton promised by Rev. W. West (as part of the sixvolume edition of his works, 1870), but not yet published, all these notes will be printed.

NOTE Y (page 39).

Horsted Keynes, Sussex, in the centre of the weald, is an interesting place enough, with wild forest scenery. Broadhurst Manor belonged to his brother-in-law Edward Lightmaker, who was so impressed with Leighton's serene piety, that he said to himself: "If none shall get to heaven but so holy a man, what will become of me?" He accordingly gave up business, because he deemed it dangerous to soul-health, and made the remainder of life a preparation for Eternity. Broadhurst is now a farm-house. There is a shady avenue overgrown with ferns, and a group of old trees, which was Leighton's favourite resort. The rector in Leighton's time, for five years at least before his death, was the Rev. Giles Moore. He kept a diary, which was printed in 1871, under the title of A Clergyman's Diary of

the Seventeenth Century.

It is a curious fact that Leigh

ton is not mentioned in it.

NOTE Z (page 45).

Leighton's beneficence was continuous. When he came to Dunblane, he allowed the parish minister to draw 350 merks from the Bishop's Rents, as had been the case during Presbytery, in terms of a grant made by King Charles I. at Berwick, 18th Nov. 1641. His successor, Bp. Ramsay, claimed the grant and uplifted it. There are references to other cases of Leighton's surrender of his dues in order to augment the stipends of ministers, noted in the Minutes of Dunblane Presbytery.

A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF

ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON,

CONSISTING OF

Sermons, Expositions, Addresses, Charges, and Letters.

Ἐμοὶ δὲ μὴ γένοιτο καυχᾶσθαι, εἰ μὴ ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· δι ̓ οὗ ἐμοὶ κόσμος ἐσταύρωται, κἀγὼ τῷ κόσμῳ. GAL. vi. 14.

[Written by Leighton on the fly-leaf

of Savonarola's Expositio Orationis Dominicne, etc. Ludg. 1613.]

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