THE LIFE OF DARCY, LADY MAXWELL, OF POLLOCK; LATE OF EDINBURGH; COMPILED FROM HER Diary and Correspondence, AND FROM OTHER AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. BY THE REV. JOHN LANCASTER. SECOND EDITION. "My own heart has been so much edified, and animated, by what I have read PAUL. LONDON: PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY J. KERSHAW, 14, CITY ROAD, AND 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1826. PREFACE. ELEVEN years have nearly elapsed, since the pious Writer of the following papers exchanged mortality for life eternal. It was generally known by her intimate friends, that she had left a record of the gracious dealings of God towards her; and it was hoped, that this record would soon be given to the religious world. These hopes, however, were for a season disappointed. Lady MAXWELL had intrusted her papers to the care of the Honourable Miss NAPIER, with a solemn injunction, that after her Ladyship's decease, they should be transmitted to one of the Wesleyan Ministers: but she neither specified the individual, nor fixed on the period when this obligation should be discharged. Thus, a liberty was allowed for choice and discretion; and a delay, in delivering up the Manuscripts, was the consequence. The feelings, also, were deeply |