text: --They have elected me with somewhat short of unanimity not indeed to be one of themselves for of that distinction I acknowledge and deplore my unworthiness nor indeed to be a poor scholar to which unless it be a very poor one I have almost as small pretension but simply to undertake awhile the heavier office of burser for them to cast up their accounts; to overlook the scouring of their plate; and to lay a list thereof with a few specimens before those who fight the fight of the Lord that his Saints seeing the abasement of the proud and the chastisement of worldlymindedness may rejoice