and Spirital Conference; Rules agreed upon by fome Praying Societies; A brief Differtation concerning the Righteousness of Christ); but, as they are exceedingly Scarce, and very little known, it was thought adviseable to preserve them in this Volume. R. MORISON and SON have purchased Mr Brown's corrected and enlarged copies of his other Works, which they propose to publish with all convenient speed. November 1797. ERRATA ERRAT A. Page 1. line 8. five read few ib. 5. ib. 8. 23. from read to 8. kind of read kind 16. purity read severity 13. 13. ftrongly read ftrangely 19. 11. dele not 72.-11. permittings read permitting these things 76. 77. 85. 91. 92. 103. 122. 137. 147. 3. about 65. read about A. D. 65. 9. Analyitifts read Anabaptifts 9. here read hear 18. gripes read grips 143.14. gripes read grips A SUMMARY OF WHAT HE UTTERED IN HIS LAST ILLNESS. THE Rev. John Brown was born in the year 1722, in a fmall village called Corpow, parish of Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland. In the narrative of his experience, he reflects on it as a great mercy that he was born in a family who took care of his Christian instruction, and in which he had the privilege of the worship of God both morning and evening. This was the case in few five families in that corner at that time; and it was the more remarkable, confidering that his father had got no regular education in reading. About the eighth year of his age, he happened, in a crowd, to push into the church of Abernethy, on a facramental Sabbath: then, it was common for all but intended communicants to be excluded. Before he was put out, he heard one or two tables ferved by a minister who fpake much to the commendation of Chrift; this, in a fweet and delightful manner, captivated his young affections, and made him think afterward, that children should never be kept out of the church on fuch occa fions. At this period of life, his thirst after knowledge was great, but his parents circumstances were such, that they were not able to afford him any great length of time at school for reading, writing, and arithmetic : he had a particular delight in learning by heart the catechifms published by Vincent, Flavel, and the Westminfter affembly, and was much profited by them. One month only, at fchool, he bestowed upon the Latin. His father dying about the eleventh year of his age, and his mother foon after, he was left a poor orphan, and had nothing to depend on but the providence of God in the meantime, he owns the Lord was remarkably to him the father of the fatherlefs, and the orphans ftay. In the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his life, the Lord, by his word read and heard, often strove with his foul for its good. The perufal of Alleine's Alarm contributed, in fome measure, to awaken his confcience, and to move his affections; however, fome of that pious author's unerring hints occafioned his legal covenanting with God; indeed, fays he, fuch was the bias of my heart under her convictions, that I was willing to do any thing rather than flee from Chrift, and truft to his free grace alone for falvation. To He took no fmall pleasure, about this time, in reading religious books, fuch as the Bible, Rutherford's Letters, Guife's Directions how to walk with God, &c.; by means of attention to thefe, he was led into much tenderness in his external behaviour. The imprefiions which were made on his mind by the fermons het he begud sal the books which he read, were, o |