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Mr Renwick; that they thought the whole time he was before them, he was so filled with the Spirit of God, that his face seemed to shine, and that they had never seen or found so much of the Lord’s Spirit accompanying any work as that ordination. But no sooner were these difficulties over, than others of a more disagreeable aspect began to arise, which, if they had appeared but one day sooner, might have stopped the ordination, at least for a time. On the very next day, Mr Brakel told them, that a formal libel was coming from the Scottish ministers at Rotterdam, eontaining heavy aeeusations against the poor society-people in Scotland, which they behoved either to vindieate, or else the ordinatiou must be stopped; but this being too late as to Mr Renwiek, it came to nothing at last.
After his ordination, he had a most longing desire to improve his talents for the poor persecuted people in Seotland, who were his brethren; and having reeeived large testimonials of his ordination and learning (particularly in the Hebrew and Greek tongues) from the elassis, and finding a ship ready to sail, he embarked at the Brill; but waiting some days upon a wind, he was so discouraged by some profane passengers pressing the King’s health, &c., that he was foreed to leave that vessel, and take another bound for Ireland. A sea storm eompelled them to put in to Rye harbour in England, about the time when there was so much noise of the Ryehouse plot, which erated him no small danger; but, after many perils at sea, he arrived safe at Dublin, where he had many eonfliets with the ministers there, anent their defeetions and indifference; and yet in sueh a gaining and gospel-way, that he left eonvictions on their spirits, of his being a pious and zealous youth, which procured him a speedy passage to Seotland. In this passage, he had considerable dangers, and a prospect of more, as not knowing how or where he should come to land, all ports being then so strictly observed, and
