Note 140 — Report of Proceedings OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT GLASGOW, 1638. (continued 5)

Mr Stevenson, in his “History of the Church and State of Scotland,” (1753, et ann. sequen,) after giving the closing speeches of Henderson and Argyle, concludes his account of the Assembly, 1638, in these terms:—“The Assembly being thus happily concluded, Mr Henderson said—We have now cast down the walls of Jericho: let him that rebuildeth them beware of the curse of Hiel the Bethelite.” As Mr Stevenson does not state on what authority this is given, and as it is not mentioned in any other work that we have chanced to see, we merely add it in a note, (the expression being frequently referred to,) without having before us any contemporary voucher for its accuracy.