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His works, besides his Letter from Leith 1663, to his parishioners at Ancrum, are his Memorable Characteristics of Divine Providence, &c. and a Manuscript of his own Life, of which this is an abbreviate.—He also (while in his Patmos of Holland) wrote a new Latin translation of the Old Testament, which was revised and approven of by Voſſius, Eſſenius, Nethneus, Leusden and other eminent lights of that time before his death, it was put into the hands of the last to be printed.

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Mr. Livingston's Account of

THE GREAT WORK

At the Kirk of Shots.

The only day in all my life, wherein I found most of the presence of God in preaching, was on a Monday after the Communion, preaching in the Church-yard of Shots. June 21 1630. The night before I had been in company with some Coristians who spent the night in prayer and conference. When I was alone in the fields about eight or nine o'clock in the morning before we were to go to Sermon, there camesuch