on Christ’s mercy for those who laboured under the awareness of sin; and 1742, Early Piety Exemplified, a funeral sermon for an eight-year-old girl, which showed how holiness could be experienced even at an early age. For reasons related to its political and ecclesiastical history, Scotland’s situation must be distinguished from situations in England and the American colonies. But from Scotland also in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries came leaders who, while rooted in state-church