Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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be came to this certain conclusion, that the
Christian religion must in itself be very
good, and the only true religion, since all
valued themselves upon laying claim to it ;
and then that it was impossible they could
be all right, when they so widely differed
amongst themselves and one another. Upon
those considerations, to liberate himself from
this perplexity, and come to a determinate
choice, he took himself to the close reading
of the New Testament, as the only certain
way to know the Christian religion in its pri-
mitive purity, by which he came clearly to see
the difference between what it was in itself,
and the strange shape that several pretenders
thereto had put it in ; that in itself, it was,
love, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost ; that it
taught to be humble, patient, self-denied, to
endure all things, to suffer all things ; not
to place our happiness or comfort in this
world, or the things thereof, according to
1 Cor. xv. 19. — If in this life only we have
hope in Christ, we are of all men most mi-
serable. Whilst under these considerations,
be heard of a people called, in derision,