A short view of the statutes at present in force in Scotland against Popery [electronic resource] : the nature of the bill proposed to be Brought into Parliament for repealing these Statutes: and some remarks shewing the propriety and necessity of opposing such Repeal. With A Few Hints on the Constitutional and Prudent Mode of Opposition. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the Heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold and visit this vine, and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted. Psalm lxxx. 8, &c.