Keppoch song

168 ADDENDA.
realme, maid thereupon before." " The
haill estates conclude, that his grace has
equal cause, and just action to persew the
summonds, upon the aires of umquhile
Robert Lesly, and all other sik like sum-
monds of treason."
As the Almighty declares he visits " the
sins of the fathers upon the children, unto
the third and fourth generation;" so, per-
haps, the Scots cooks, doctors, or parlia-
ment, by this act, recognised his grace as
the vicegerent of God upon earth, and as a
terrestrial Deity. But we are taught, that
mercy is the darling attribute of heaven,
and that the clemency a&d goodness of the
Most High, is* as boundless as his justice
is inflexibly Whither such an act was
strictly consistent with commisseration for
the wretched, and sympathy for the inno-
cent sufferer, a Howard, and a Wilberforce,
or the humane and compassionate, will
readily decide. Whether such an act
/which acknowledges there Mas a murmu-
ring against it) was an invasion of the attri-
butes of tjie Deity, the writer leaves it to the
reformed clergy of the church of Scotland.