that the puritans (as they called them) were clergymen as well as they. But upon notice, that the privy counſel had received in a declinature againſt the high commiſſion-court in the year 1638, he ventured to return to his flock at Anwoth, where he again took great pains, both in public and private, amongſt that people, who from all quarters reſorted to his miniſtry, ſo that the whole countryſide might account themſelves his particular flock, and it being then in the dawning of the Reformation, found no ſmall benefit by the goſpel, that part of the ancient prophecy being further accompliſhed, In the wilderneſs ſhall waters break out, and ſtreams in the deſart, Isa. xxxv. 6.
He was before that venerable aſſembly held at Glaſgow in 1638, and gave an account of all theſe his former proceedings with reſpect to his confinement, and the cauſes thereof. By them he was appointed to be profeſſor of divinity at St. Andrews, and colleague in the miniſtry with worthy Mr. Blair who was tranſlated hither about the ſame time.- And here God did again ſo ſecond this his eminent and faithful ſervant, that, by his indefatigable pains both in teaching in the ſchools and preaching in the congregation, St. Andrews, the ſeat of the archbiſhop (and by that means the nurſery of all ſuperſtition, error, and profaneneſs) ſoon became forth with a Lebanon, out of which were taken cedars for the building of the houſe of the Lord, almoſt through the whole land, many of whom he guided to heaven before himſelf, (who received the ſpiritual life by his miniſtry) and many others did walk in that light after him.
And as he was mighty in the public parts of religion, ſo he was a great practiſer and encourager of the private duties thereof. Thus, in the year 1640, when a charge was foiſted in before the general aſſembly at the inſtance of Mr. Henry Guthrie
