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A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Robert Barclay
A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Robert Barclay Author:Robert BARCLAY Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Giff thou desire thy house lang stand, And thy successors bruik thy land, Abive all things, lief God in fear; Intromit nought with wrangous gear; Nor... more » conquess nothing wrangously ; With thy neighbour keep charity. See that thou pass not thy estate; Obey duly thy magistrate; Oppress not, but support the puire; To help the common weill take cuire. Use no deceit; mell not with treason 4 And to all men do right and reason. Both unto word and deed be true; All kind of wickedness eschew. Slay no man; nor thereto consent; Be nought cruel, but patient. Allya ay in some gXiid place, With noble, honest, godly, race. Hate huirdome, and all vices flee; Be humble; haunt guid companie, Help thy friend and do nae wrang, And God shall make thy house stand lang. '1 If this be really the production of the first Barclay, it is probable that the spelling of some of the words has been modernised. chapter{Section 4The eighth in descent from Alexander Barclay, was David Barclay; who, being in straitened circumstances through expensive living, sold his paternal estate of Mathers, after it had remained 30O years in the family, and also a more ancient inheritance which had been held 50O years. The designation of Barclay of Mathers was consequently lost; and in 1648, on the purchase of Ury by David, son of the last'Barclay of Mathers, and father to Robert, the family assumed 'that of Barclay of Ury, which the spirit of feudal times, still surviving in Scotland, is disposed to retain. This description of pedigree may seem impertinent in religious biography. It must be allowed that, unconnected with virtue in the descendant, pedigree, when laid in the balance, " is altogether lighter than vanity." It serves, among such as have not learned ...« less