Blair Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases

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only dignified clergyman of the old Scottish Episcopal
Church, as by law established at the Restoration.
Bishop Rose being dead, Bishop Brown had to look
about him for a successor : and who should fall in his
way, but the subject of this memoir ! It so happened,
that he had turned his thoughts that way ; and com-
municating his intention to Bishop Brown, he was
forthwith put in deacon's orders, and in due season or-
dained a priest : he thus designs himsellj in his last-
will and testament, which lies before me, '' I, the Re-
verend Donald Mackintosh,, a priest of the old Scots
Episcopal Church, and last of the non-jurant clergy in
Scotland."
Here, then, we hail our worthy countryman placed
in a relatively higher situation in society, than even his
predecessors the Thanes of Glentilt. But the destinies
willed it not that he should enjoy his exalted station
long with dignified ease and honour : for his reverend
brethren, who had " bowed the knee to Baal," ques-
tioned the validity of his ordination, which embittered
}iis life in secret, and caused other embarrassments ;
particularly to those well meaning individuals, who
considered him as the only spiritual pastor left of the
true Churchy against which " the gates of hell should
not prevail."
Meanwhile, our compiler pursued his path of duty
as a clergyman, but did not forget those secular pur
suits which went hand in hand with his more serious
avocations.
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worthy and of the wealthy. But most of the old onesl Im