Christ, so that no person can see that work and be ignorant of God; and inasmuch as it is true, in the third place, that Christ has the Holy Ghost for you, that in the Spirit you may behold and enter into and dwell in the light of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ; inasmuch as these things are true, you observe, that sinners as you are, that deserving of condemnation, and by nature under condemnation as you are, that notwithstanding all the evil of your circumstances as these have arisen from the fall; your new circumstances which have arisen from the work of God in Christ, are such that it is perfectly reasonable to say to you, fear God and give him glory.' You are actually in a condition to meet this demand; you are precisely in circumstances in which to receive this command; there is no one thing you can name that creates the least obstacle, why you should not at this moment fear God and give him glory:"" And again, "Now let me not be misunderstood, I am not saying that God has no right to judge his creatures, I am not saying that the judgment recorded in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,' is not a righteous judgment. But this I say, that the principle upon which Christ judges the earth, is that Christ has redeemed us. Not that the judgment suspends the pardonnot that the judgment makes the pardon conditional-not that it makes it uncertain till the judgment is come ;-but that the judgment pre-supposes our forgiveness, that it has a reference to our forgiveness, that it is as those who have been forgiven that we judged shall be:" And again, "If we look at the actual condition of men, we would say, here is the darkness of total ignorance of the mercy that is in God of the might that is in God for us. Here are people who do not know that Christ died for them-who do not know that Christ has the Spirit for them-who do not know that the Bible says that their sins are remitted here are people who conceive that they are giving God All glory in saying there is no proof of these facts. This is the real darkness in which men are living." which or part thereof being found proved by the said Reverend Presbytery of Dumbarton, before which your Case is to be heard, it ought to be found and declared that you are unfit and unworthy to remain a minister of the Church of Scotland; and you ought to be forthwith deposed from the office of the holy ministry, and from the pastoral charge of the said church and parish of Row, and the said church ought to be declared vacant. According to the Laws of the Church of Scotland, and the usage observed in the like cases. (Signed) GEORGE M'LELLAN, Farmer, Bolernick. JOHN THOMSON, Spirit-dealer, Helensburgh. List of Witnesses to be adduced for proving the foregoing Libel. Reverend Patrick Brewster, one of the Ministers of the Abbey Parish of Paisley. Peter McLeod, Clothier in Helensburgh. Robert M Farlane, Farmer in Greenfield, lying between. the Parish Church of Row and Gare-Loch head. John McFarlane, Feuar in Helensburgh. Peter Bain, Teacher at Gare-Loch head, near Helensburgh. James Bain, Student of Divinity, residing in Easterton, near Helensburgh. James Brown, Parochial Teacher in Row. Reverend William Cunningham, residing in Greenock. Reverend John Arthur, residing in Helensburgh. Reverend Doctor Robert Burns, one of the Ministers Alexander Munro, now or lately Tutor in the family of Lord John Campbell, Ardincaple House, near Helensburgh. William Stewart, Surgeon in Glasgow. Robert Baillie Lusk, Bookseller in Greenock. (Signed) George M'Lellan, Farmer, Bolernick. John McKinlay, Greenfield, Row. John Thomson, Spirit-dealer, Helensburgh. Alex. M Leod, Feuar, Helensburgh. Which Libel the Presbytery having duly considered, did and hereby do, agreeably to the Form of Process, appoint the Clerk to make out a complete extract thereof, to be served upon said Mr John M'Leod Campbell:--and further appoint the Presbytery Officer to go to the Manse of Row and serve the same upon Mr Campbell, or leave it at his dwelling-house, together with the List of Witnesses and a Copy of the Productions in aid of Proof, on or before Friday the tenth current, and summon him to appear before the Presbytery at their next Meeting, on Tuesday, the twenty-first current, at twelve o'clock noon. And the Officer is to return to the Presbytery on that day an Execution of the said Summons, signed by himself and two witnesses to the delivery thereof. Extracted from the Records of the Presbytery of Dumbarton, on this and the preceding twenty-two pages, by WILLIAM JAFFRAY, Pby. Clk ANSWERS FOR THE REV. J. M'L. CAMPBELL, MINISTER OF Row. TO ส The LIBEL at the instance of George M'Lellan, Peter Turner, A. Lennox, Alexander M'Dougall, John MacKinlay, John Thomson, Parlan M'Farlane, and Alexander M'Leod, designing themselves heads of families and inhabitants of the Parish of Row. I Now stand libelled by some of my parishioners before my Presbytery; a situation which for some time I have in a measure anticipated, while I have felt it my duty as long as it might be to shun it. I have not courted, what may be called, legal investigation into the manner in which I have discharged the duty of a teacher in the church of Christ. However much I have felt the desirableness, in one view, of escaping the misconception to which it exposed me; it is in the knowledge of the Presbytery, that so long as I did not find myself obliged to take the place of an accused person, and to submit to judicial inquiry into the doctrines which I hold and teach, I have avoided doing so. I have acted thus under the conviction that it was not the will of God that I should be made to turn aside from the straightforward path of duty, in testifying to truth, both in the public ministry of the Word and otherwise, by adopting any step which was commended simply by considerations of regard to my own character and estimation, in the judgment of those who would not discriminate between an impatience under the feeling of appearing to shrink from |