A

FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TESTIMONY

Essayed

In Name Of A Number of

Ministers, Elders, and Christian People Of

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

Unto The Laudable

PRINCIPLES, WRESTLINGS & ATTAINMENTS

OF THAT CHURCH;

and Against the Backslidings, Corruptions,

Divisions, and Prevailing Evils,

Both Of

FORMER & PRESENT TIMES

And Namely

THE DEFECTIONS OF THE

Established Church;

Of The

Nobility, Gentry, Commons, Seceders,

Episcopalians, Etc.

Containing

A BRIEF HISTORICAL DEDUCTION OF THE

chief occurrences in this church

from her beginning to the year 1744,

WITH REMARKS;

and humble pleadings with our mother

church, to exert herself

to

stop defection, and promote reformation.

By the Rev. JOHN WILLISON,

Minister of the Gospel at Dundee, Scotland,

Psal. ci 3. I hate the work of them that turn aside, it shall not cleave to me.

Isa. xliii. 10. Ye are my Witnesses saith the Lord.

Ezek. xliii. 11. Shew them the form of the house, and write it in their sight.

Isa. lviii. 1. Shew the house of Jacob their sins.

from the press of cramer and spear—1808