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A BRIEF
HISTORICAL RELATION

OF THE

LIFE OF MR JOHN LIVINGSTONE,
MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.


CONTAINING SEVERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE DIVINE
GOODNESS MANIFESTED TO HIM IN THE SEVERAL OCCURRENCIES THEREOF.


WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
DURING HIS BANISHMENT IN HOLLAND,
FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST.

"IMITANDA ILLORUM VITA, QUI CHRISTI VITAM IMITATI SUNT."

PAGE 129

OF THE
LIFE OF MR JOHN LIVINGSTONE,

MINISTER OF THE GOSPELL.


WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

TAKEN FROM THE COPY COLLATED WITH THE
AUTHOR'S OWN MANUSCRIPT.


Jan. 1666.

SOME OBSERVATIONS OF THE LORD'S DEALING TOWARDS ME DUREING MY LIFE, WRITTEN FOR THE USE OF MY CHILDREN.1


MY father was Mr WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE, first minister at Monyabrock,2 where he entered in the year 1600, and thereafter was transported about the year 1614, to be minister at Lanerk, where he died in the year 1641, being sixty-five years old.3 His father was Mr Alexander Livingstone, minister also at Monyabrock, who was in near relation to the house of Callender, his father, who



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1    Wodrow MSS. vol. xviii. 4to, No. 9. The MS. from which this edition of the life of Livingstone is printed has on the margin various notes and rubrics in the handwriting of Wodrow, and may, therefore, be regarded as authenticated by him. But to secure as accurate an edition as possible, it has been collated with a MS. in the possession of Rev. Thomas M'Crie; and the various readings given in inverted commas on the margin are from that MS., unless they be otherwise marked. This edition has also been in part collated with a very accurate MS. in the possession of William Brown, Esq., Surgeon, Edinburgh. The discrepencies are for the most part merely verbal.

2    Now Kilsyth.

3    Some account of him will be found in a subsequent part of this volume.






        
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