. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. g. In public prayer, which with himwas always extemporary, ho was short and senten-tious ; but so emphatic was his language, so ardentwere his expressions, that he appeared to his audi-ence to be inspired. His knowledge of the Scripturewas extensive, and accurate beyond the attainmentof his age. His skill in the languages and in thescience of those times, as well as his acquaintancewith the laws and constitution of the kingdom,was equal if not superior to that of any of t
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. g. In public prayer, which with himwas always extemporary, ho was short and senten-tious ; but so emphatic was his language, so ardentwere his expressions, that he appeared to his audi-ence to be inspired. His knowledge of the Scripturewas extensive, and accurate beyond the attainmentof his age. His skill in the languages and in thescience of those times, as well as his acquaintancewith the laws and constitution of the kingdom,was equal if not superior to that of any of theScottish reforaiers. Less violent than Melville,more enlightened than Knox, says a writer iu theScots Magazine, he viewed with a brighter andmilder eye the united interests of the church andnation. His capacity for civil affairs was pcrcci\cdand acknowledged by his sovereign, and tu tliismay be imputed his niisfortimes and disgrace. The subjoined portrait of Mr. Brece is froman engraving by J. Stewart, from an original miniature in the possession of Bruce of Kinnaira,prefixed to the Scots Magazine for December His sermons, of which sixteen were printedduring his life, in two volumes, (1590 and 1591)display a boldness of expression, a regularity ofstyle, and a force of argument seldom to be foundiu the Scottish writers of the sixteenth ^n-itten in the genuine Scottish of the time ofJames the Sixth, a translation of the two volumesinto English was published at London in 1617, 4to,and is that which for a long time was most com-mon in Scotland. An edition of his sermons, withhis life by AVodrow, was printed in one volume forthe Wodrow Society in 1843, from the MS. iu thelibrary of the university of Glasgow. By his wife he left a son, Robert, his succes-sor in the lands of Kinnaird, and two danghlera. Contemporary ^vith the subject of this noticewas another Robert Bruce, a trafficking popishpriest, whose letters arc, in the Scots Worthies,most erroneously ascr
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