praise. _It will not be unprofitable for the Reader to cast his eye upon these sentences of great Authors, which relate to some heads of the following discourse._ (Translated from their Originals.) _Erasmus._ As a woodcock, otherwise loud, being taken, becomes dumb; so slavery renders some men speechless, who, if they were free, would tell their minds freely. _Nazianzen._ Discord is better for the advantage of piety, than dissembled concord. _Bernard._ But if scandal arise for the truth, it is better to suffer scandal than relinquish the truth. _Bracton._ He is a king who rightly governs, a tyrant who oppresses his people. _Cicero._ He loses all right to government, who, by that government, overturns the common-weal. _Aristotle._ He who obeys the law, obeys both God and the law; who obeys the king, a man and a beast. _Sueton._ They are not bound to be loyal to a wicked king, under the pains of perjury. _Ambrose._ He that does not keep off injury from his neighbour, if he can do it, is as much in the fault as he who does it. _Chamier._ But all subjects have right of resisting tyrants, who by open force acquire dominion. _Barclay. Against contenders for Monarchy._ All antiquity agrees, that tyrants can, most justly, be attacked and slain as public enemies, not only by the public, but also by individual persons. A HIND LET LOOSE; OR, AN HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE TESTIMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, FOR THE INTEREST OF CHRIST. WITH THE TRUE STATE THEREOF IN ALL ITS PERIODS. WITH _A VINDICATION OF THE PRESENT TESTIMONY_.