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Deus venerunt Gentes in hæreditatem tuam, polluerunt templum sanctum tuum, posuerunt Jerusalem in pomorum custodiam.—Psalmus lxxviii.

Vineam de Ægypto transtulisti, ejecisti Gentes, et plantasti eam. . . . Exterminavit eam aper de silva, et singularis ferus depastus est eam.—Psalmus lxxix.

The beastly Covenanters . . . hardly had any claim to be called men, unless what was founded on their walking upon their hind feet. You can hardly conceive the perfidy, cruelty, and stupidity of these people, according to the accounts they have themselves preserved.—Sir Walter Scott.