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ANE ACCOMPT
OF WHAT PAST WHEN
MR JOHN LIVINGSTONE
APPEARED BEFORE THE
COUNCILL IN THE LOWER COUNCIL-HOUSE AT
EDINBURGH,1
Lord Chancellour. — You are called here before his Majestie's
Secret Councill for turbulency and sedition. You have been in all
the rebellions and disobedience to authority that have been these
many years; and although his Majestie and Parliament have given
an act of indemnity for what is past, yet you continue in the same
courses.
Mr Livingstone. — My Lords, if I shall not be so ready in my
answers as were requisite, or if anything, through inadvertency,
shall offend, I crave to be excused in regard of my unacquaintedness
with such wayes, as being now towards sixty years, and was never
before called in such sort before such a judicatory. I am a poor
servant of Jesus Christ, and have been labouring to serve him and
his people in the ministrie of his word, and it is a grief to me to
be so charged by your Lordship; for I am not conscious to myself
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1
Wodrow MSS., vol. xviii., 4to, No. 12, collated with Mr M'Crie's MS.
See Livingstone's Life, p. 190.
