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The following LIST of SUBSCRIBERS in Scotland, not arriving in time for infertion in their alphabetical order, is obliged to be affixed here.

Marquis of Tweedale
Marchionefs of Tweedale
Mifs Hay

Mifs Catherine M'Dougall
Sir James Gardener Baird,
bart.
Lady Baird

Hon. Capt. Wm. Maitland
Sir Hugh Hamilton Dal-
rymple, bart.
Lady Hamilton Dalrymple
H. H. Dalrymple, efq.
Charles Dalrymple, efq.
Mrs. Charles Dalrymple
Capt. James Dalrymple
Sir David Shinlock, bart.
Mifs Shinlock

Francis Shinlock, efq.
Major Gordon Shinlock
Alexander Shinlock
George Buchan Hepburn
Mrs. Buchan Hepburn

John Cathcart, efq.
James Macleod, efq.
George Grout, efq.
Mifs Margaret Curfins
John Hamilton, efq. M. P.
Mrs. Hamilton
Robert Colt, efq.
Mrs. Colt

John Macleod, efq.
Mrs. Macleod
Mifs Macleod

Mifs Flora Lee
Mifs Macleod
Mifs Macauley
Dr. Somner
Mr. George Somner
William Caddle, efq. jun.
John Bufhby Maitland, efq.
(advocate)

Robert Hamilton, efq. (advocate)

John Campbell, esq.

OMITTED by mistake in the alphabetical Lift:

Right Hon. Lord South- Rt. Hon. Lady E. Fitzroy

ampton

Rt. Hon.Lady Southampton

W. Rooke, efq. 3 copies.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

EFORE we enter upon

BEF

the subject

of our bleffed Saviour's birth, it will be necessary, for the better understanding of the subsequent events, to look back to the fituation of Adam in the garden of Eden, and to take a view of the earliest times.

No fooner had man finned, but God, in mercy to him and to his fallen race, who became involved in his guilt, promised a faviour: as foon therefore as he was promised, mankind had an intereft in this fecond Adam, (I. Cor. xv. 21. 22.); "For

* The full account of which is to be found in the third chapter of Genefis.

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as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift "fhall all be made alive."

The rapid progrefs of fin may be worthy of remark, and serve to fhew the danger of the first falfe ftep; for we foon after read, that it had attained a height one would have scarcely believed poffible.

It is indeed very wonderful that the first man born into the world fhould have murdered an affectionate brother: at that early period, brotherly affection might have been supposed stronger than in afterages.

This melancholy history should teach us carefully to guard against the intrufion of envy and jealousy; as those pernicious paffions, if indulged to excefs, will totally deprive us of reafon and if at any time they force themselves upon our minds, we fhould strive to expel fuch foes to our happiness, convinced that wherever they enter, they will embitter every focial enjoyment. There are many kinds of jealoufy: that of Cain is a very common and dangerous one. Pride and felf-love make us diffatisfied

dissatisfied with the respect and attention paid to others, if they are preferred to ourfelves, though at the fame time all the unprejudiced part of the world may fee the justness of the preference.

Cain might well be wretched, when he had brought fuch judgments upon himself; and all who are obliged to fly from home, or, in other words, from themselves, will, like Cain, be wanderers and vagabonds, let their outward prospects or fortunes be ever so great.

There are two circumftances in the hiftory of Cain which many people cavil at. Where, say they, fhould he meet with a wife? and who was there to revenge the murder of his brother? If we do but reflect how foon a healthy colony is peopled from a very few fettlers, our wonder will cease, as Adam was an hundred and thirty years old when Seth was born; which was not long after the murder of Abel. This opinion appears very probable, from Eve's thankfulness to God; who, fhe said, had

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