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d Uzfonl no less, wherf^ lho«e most famous worthies, Lai mer and Ridley |i;at the crown. And for my o^ eoontry and church, whose hUlory I know better, though ever\* heath was dyed with holy blood, aad ctcry mountain made bcantjlui with the feet of fojtbfnl preachers, and erery rocky cttve and hollow vale ble**ed wUh fUe prayen ^^M confessors ; yet can I ne*er forget, that from W^ Andrews and Dandee went forth the armiea of the CoDg^re^tion, which bridlixl the TiolcDce ef Satan; and from Gksf^w went forth ihcCoveoaa^H which, in God*fi providence, delirered both iandl^ and in Edinburgh waa^ made that demonstralioo of Cameronian zeal which sealed and perfected the bloody testimony of two ceDtnrics, and U^m the church to enjoy her ordinances in peace, '^h And while, afi a man of Uod endowed with a spirit of |K»wer, and of lore, and of a siound miBd, 1 have no fenr of congreirated men, but do rather rejoice in ihe^aterand greater numb^^r to wbon it is given me to bear this alUcomprchenduv Gospel ; 1 have as little fear, on the other htfid, of the purauils of commerce and trade, aod do look upon all that ditty which hath baeo said and sung about men assembled in muUittMlea ningto corruption, and all thccotla^e-and'-j system of a nation, with all tlioacartjhcial raenta of the peo|»ie, lo he a poor luw tdi UIJ CKIU'b COftTttaVEKfiT WITH THi: LAND, dll of external order and coovcoicDcyr as \i the pith of Che question lay in cookery and houain^, and to be eijually uiiaound m (political Qu<i lu siiiritual economy, For, a^ hath been aaid, the famous llaujtealic league for tlie ]jrotection of commerce became the itume of thu Rtrforniation, and out coniDiercial couiptinies were God s means for car- rying the Gospel to tUo wcetcin world: and, if wise men err not, our East-India Company will prove Uod'ft great ineaua ior reuewing the Gospel in Asia, when the times of restitution fihall come I irojn the presence of the I^ird. It » our com- merce tliat haih opi^ned the way of the blessed Goa[>eL to the Islands of the SoutJiem Ocean, and to Greenland, and to the Cape of Good Hope; aiwJ, indeed, every other place to which it hath buen carried in these latter timeit. And I bi^liere it is for great purjiuseii that almost all the money- commerce of Europe is falling into the hands of i,tikQ Jews, and a |/reat part of the trade also ; in order that they may be apt, and prepared in all haste, to be the carriers of another treasure, and the ooiuluctorA of another traffic, when the time of the Lord hhall contt?, B