Genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie

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they loved one another, the infallible cha-
racter our blessed Saviour hath given, John
xiii. 35. of their being his disciples; that
their practice and principles were most
agreeable to the primitive standard recorded
in the New Testament; therefore came to
a certain conclusion within himself, if Jesus
Christ hath followers, disciples, or a visible
church upon earth, these must be they ; and
so upon full conviction joined with them,
and became eminent for his religious and
exemplary life, as formerly for his bravery,
resolving to suffer indignities and injuries
for conscience sake : a virtue he was before
equally unacquainted and unaccustomed with.
This was in the year 1666, being the fifty-
sixth year of his age, about which time the
meeting was settled at Urie, where it hath
continued, without interruption, (this being
A. D. 1740) about seventy-four years.
These his resolutions, and practice agreeable
thereto, with the generous and better sort,
made him suffer nothing in their esteem, but
had the contrary effect upon the meaner