TESTIMONY 
 
 TO T H E 
 
 Doftrinc, Worfliip, Difciplinc, and Government of the 
 Church of MOT LAND, 
 
 AN D T H E 
 
 •Covenanted work of Reformation 
 
 As it was ProTefPd in the Three Kingdoms: 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 Aa. Account of th« Perfecution of fome of the moil Eminent in 
 " Our Days, for their Adherence to the fame. 
 
 As it was left in Write, by that truely Pious and Eminently*. 
 Faithful! and now Gonfied Martyr [Mr. John Dick. 
 
 To which is Added ^ 
 
 His Laft Speech and Behaviour on the Scaffold, on the fifth, day of March 
 
 1684. Which day he Sealed this Teftimony, and left it to a particular 
 
 Friend, to Communicate to the World after his Death',whichwas never 
 
 PuMifhed till now, atthedefire ot fome reall and Sincere Lovers 
 
 of the true Peace, an*d Welfare of the Church of Scotland, 
 
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 TESTIMONY 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 Boftrinc. Worfhip, Difciplinc and Government o( the 
 True Presbyterian Church of Scalane/, and the Co- 
 venanted Work of Reformation, as it was profiled, 
 in the Three Kingdoms. 
 
 Bf That Renowned, and now Glorified Martyr Mr. John 
 Dick) who Suffered at Ediuburqh on the filth of Msrch 1684. 
 
 Edinburgh l$.Avguft 1683. 
 
 BEing called before Four of the Council \ my Lord Livipgflon ( after 
 Sir William P-aterfon had Interrogat fome few Queftions, in the Out- 
 ter-houfe, which becaufe confident with what follows, I omitt , ") 
 fays to me. Mr. Dick, There is a great Charge given in againft 
 U you, which amounts to a great height •, what fay you for your felf? 
 • I anfwered, I crave you pardon, Sir, for you are a Stranger to me : 
 One of them faid, it is my Lord LivinglUn \ then I anfwered, I crave your 
 lordfhip would be more particular as to your Charge : Then he faid, That I 
 was at Pentland, which I denied : Then he asked, where I had been ever fince 
 that time f To which I anfwered, that being difcovered tobeaConverfer with 
 fome, that were there immediatly upon the back of the firft Shot at the Bifhop, 
 feme Gentlemen being taken upon that Account, and threatned with the Boots, 
 I was neceffitat to leave the Nation. Then faid he, What (ay ye as to the Bi- 
 ftiop's Death, when he was killed? I told him, I thought he defired an Account 
 cf my Principles , and I told hrm, I was a Presbyterian, and adhered to the Do* 
 flrine, Worfhip, Dilcipline, and Government of the Presbyterian Churches of 
 the Three Nations, to which we were folemnly fworn : He fays, then you ad- 
 here to the Covenant : I anfwered, Yes, with my whole heart , and refolves to 
 do while I breath. Then, fays the Bishop of Edinburgh, do ye own the King's 
 Authority? I told him, my firft Anfwer wherein I gave an Account of my. 
 Principles, was a fuffkient Anfwer for that: Some others ftarted a Queftion 
 anentthis, but the Bishop anticipated my Anfwer, by faying, hefpeaksvery 
 rationally according to his Principles, allowing the King as much as the Presbyte- 
 j'ansdo-, to which I added, conform to the Word of GOD. The Bishop asked, 
 if I acknowledged Bothmll to be Rebellion : I told him, I could not fay* it was, 
 for I was confident the Generality of that people wa* not in Rebellion, being 
 (imply in felf Defence : tHc'&fhop asked, doyt ownTeif Defence lawful in any 
 
cafe > T laid yes in fome* Provoft Ramfey fayes ( to what ) to whom. then I 
 was offering to , Anfwer, but I was Interrupted by the Bifhop of Edinburgh^ who 
 drew an argument from the effedl accompanying the little Blood, that was twJ- 
 in Queen Maries Days, with what was fhed in the Infline Wars/ I Rejected his 
 Argument, and albeit he Fathered the ErTufion of Blood on the wrong fide of 
 the Houfe, feU Defence beingMawful by the word of God, by Laws of many 
 Nations, and Law of Nature i I added let the World Judge, whither this Bifhop^s 
 Principles leads him right, rhat would have his fellow Subjects to hold up their 
 Necks to Bloody Murderers, I fufpeel he fhall be found a Jefuite, and thinkf 
 ftrange, that the Emperor of Germany fhould not fend for him, to preach this 
 Doctrine to hiirr. 
 
 Then asked one of them (landing behind their Backs, if I Rode with Mr.John 
 Welfch* I'faid, I knew not if I was bound to anfwer hrm, not knowing that he 
 was a Member of the Council *, well fayes one Sitting, what fay ye to it ? I Ank 
 wered, yes I did, and I blefs God that ever 1 did fee him *, then fayes the ftander, 
 doyeconfefsye Rode m Arms wth him, Riding.in Arms? I told him I Had not 
 Riden without Anns flnce I was Seventeen or Eighteen years of Age: The 
 Bifhop of Edinburgh fayes, I will propone a queftion to you, as a Clergy Man, 
 Iftoppedhim there, and told him, I would Anfwer no queftion as a Clergy 
 Man fitting there, at which fbme others ftorm^d, he faid it was conform to my 
 Principles, then the Bifhop preffed further his Argument from the effe& in that 
 abovementioned Companion. Provoft Ramfeyhid you be newly taken, your 
 Spirits aloft, its not time to reafonnow, it will be more feafonaole afterwards, 
 upon which he defifted, the Bifhop asked, if I knew the Men, that were fund- 
 ing behind them*, which were Hugh Stevenfon and Mr. Ihomat Gordon, who 
 (hewed more Keen nefsagainft me, then the Bifhop himfelf, for which I forgive 
 them, and I faid I knew all there, by Eye-fight, except my "Lord LivingsJont 
 The Bifhop asked when I knew him, I told when he was a Regent, in the 
 College, but finding my felf in a miftake, I craved him pardon, telling him I 
 was minding Commiflar Wijheart, but told that it was when he Preached in the 
 Tron Church, that I knew him. He asked if ever I her.rd him there, I 
 (aid fometimes, in the VVeek d.'.ys. He asked why not now ? I faid he was Lookt 
 upon as an Hon eft Man then, but had proved otherwifeby Breaking his Oath 
 to God, he faid he never took the Covenant, 1 faid that was a vain Defence. 
 This is the Summe (6 far as my Memory Serves. 
 
 Then, upon the teft day of Auguft 1683, being called before the Council, 
 in prefenceof the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Dowglas, the Earl of Tweddeli^ 
 • Bifhop of Edinburgh, Prefident of the Seffion, Colington, Cafllehiil, Abbotfija!^ 
 after the Chancellor had conferred with me, a confiderable time, the Clerk 
 having cleared fuch of my Aflertions,as they judged fit to make ufe of againft me, 
 they defired me toSubfcribe the fame, which I nfufed to do till it were reclined, 
 they having fome things in ir, wrong*, and others, mifplaced. At laft this 
 Meeting Refulted in this, that I fhould Subfcribe tne following. Declaration' 
 both before the Council and Judiciary 
 
 Mr. John Dick, SonJ| David Dick Writer in Edinburgh, being called. and 
 Examined, in prefence or the faid Lords, declares j He owns the work of Refor- 
 
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 ffu&tffei as thekme is coftt£jned,'in the Confeflion* of Faith and CafeJlSfif*^ 
 Conform to the Covenant agannft \T.9pery, T}c.laey y Eraflianifrue^ &c. Andisic' 
 folved, by the Lords Strength", to.aiide in the fame. 
 
 Declares, that as to Epifcopacy and Laws Eftablifhing the fa.me, he cannot 
 understand it, to be Lawful ', becau'fe, fince the King? Reftoration, there has 
 been no free nor Lawful Parliaments, and' he thinks by reafon, albeit the Mem- 
 bers thereof were Etefted. in the ordinary way *, Yet when the Members Meet, 
 there, was unlawful Oaths ifnpo fed upon them, and thereupon, feverkis of theni 
 left the Parliament, and fohe understands-,. that it is not a free nor lawful Par- 
 liament, and thinks, that Epifcopacy and Ernftianifme is eftabli (bed in: that and 
 fubfequentty Parliaments were- contrary to the Word of God, and that the 5k- 
 p-cmliy herein eft .bli-fhed is~moft horrid' Blafphemy. I added here to the 
 Chaf.cel!>r, that 1 hoped, his- Lordfhip would not be offended at this,* feei 
 he had (worn thefWe, in theTeft-, but they refuted to write this, in my^ 
 iubferibed Declaration :. B^ing Interrogate, -if he owned -the 'Proclamation 
 and Declaralionat Sayquhair and^/^;/7///V^^,Declares,he does not own \kitSauqu- 
 hair Declaration, as being inconfiftent with his Principles, fuch as the cutting 
 off of the wicked * 9 and having- himfelf read the Hamiltoun Declaration, De- 
 clares, he owns the fame, -and that, when they were (invaded andaffaulted, by 
 any Perfbns whatfoever,in their Exercifes of Reformed Religion and Worfhip, 
 they were obliged to ft a rid to their own Defence, and owns the Lawfullnefs of 
 Field Conventicles, and their being in Arms to Defend themfelves in cafe ofbe- 
 ing Molcfted *, And he himfelf was ever ready to own ahd defend hisBrethrerr 
 in Arms, when invaded for Religion *, And declares, that the Invafion made 
 againftthemat Tent land-, and Bothwell^ they being in the Exercife of his Re- 
 ligion, was Service done to the Devil, and Refiitance made by them-, was Set* 
 vice done to GOJD. 
 
 Con fe fifes, tkaf before Bothwell ,Bndge hehadriden in Arms withMr Welfck 
 through the Countrev, and bleffes God for it :, Confeffes, he Was at a Meeting 
 at Lejmehago before Bothwell^ when Lieutenant Dalziel with a Party came 
 upon them, and. was one of thefe, that engaged againft that Party. 
 
 Denies, he was (at -Drumclogg^ But confeffes, he was at Bothwell, and 
 thinks, that Mr. John We If ch frayed about half a year in the Countrey therer 
 after, but he was only, about eight days in Company with him after Bothwe//, 
 In this Kingdom : Confeffes, the King .is • lawful King Born, and came 
 Lan fully to the Crowns of thefe Kingdoms, and that he is lawful King of this 
 Kingdom, and-owns the Kings Authority, conform to the Word of GOD, that 
 is to fay, That he is impowered to Govern for GOD's Glory and the good of his 
 People, and to be a Terror to evil doers, and encourager to w.ell :, and De* 
 Clares, that the Aft of Supremacy , as it is explained by the Aft of Parliament j 
 that the turning out of Presbyterian Intereft, and overturning the Work of Re- 
 formation, moft unlawful Afts,arKi being exprefly contrary to theWord ofGod, 
 can not be Binding upon theDeclarenf 5 and thatCovenants are binding upon the 
 Nations, and fhall be fo , while Sun and Moon endures:, and that that Oath, 
 called the Tett, is a moil unlawful- and horrid Oath, and he is not obliged to 
 take the toe, 9 
 
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 Declares*' As to killing, the Archbiihop of Sp, A;idreirs y he cannot . 
 Ju'd^rnv ft, ft r.ot being an Aft of his own *, bat that famejof thrfe, 
 
 were ca!!e'J trie Actors, • whom he knew (and po^t:- un Dirgwal) 
 
 Were Godly and Juffc Men. jicfubferibit iicR, 
 
 Thelaft Day ofAuguft i683,There being manyNoblemenin the Court, which 
 day Mr. John i>/r£ being preient, was Examined, in pre fence- of thejuflices then 
 fitting in Judgment, and the abovewritten Conftflion emitted by him in prefence 
 of theCouncil, being read, he acknowledged the fame, and every particular of the 
 fame i;i pre fence of the Caid Juftkres. • SH.fubfcribitur\ ) ^ John-Dick^ Maitiand\ 
 James Firels, John Lockhart^ Alexander Set on* 
 
 Upon September 4, 1683, I Mr. John Dick, Son to David Dick \Vriter in 
 Edipburgh„ being Called before the Lords of Jufticiary being then prefent ^ it 
 was demanded, if I had any thingto fay for my feVf ? I anfwered, Yes, my 1 ord^ 
 I have fomevvhat to add to my Lyble \ they asked, what w^st-hat ? then I pro- 
 ceeded as follows : I Mr. John Dick Prifoner, in Name ■ the.'-Arpoint.: 
 of Our Bleffed Lord and Mailer Jefus Chrift, Declare, That the Blood .of a ii the 
 Presbyterians, that have been Executed for their Principles, is.horrid Murder, 
 by whatfomever Law they have been judged ', and that in thePerfon of every In- 
 dividual one, who have fufTered fimply on this Account, Cfer Bleffed Lord Jefus 
 Chriir, hath been as really crucified, as He was by Pitatt and the jfoj at Jen/fa- 
 lent. And thfsl defire maybe holden as apart of my former Declaration and 
 Conftfiion, emitted before the Council and Juftices. \ TthisI called W , and fub- 
 fcribeM, ble fling the Lord that had given me a hand fo to do. They refufed to 
 add it to my Declaration, judging they had too much already :.' I required all 
 that were pre lent WitnefTes, that I had declared the fame, and Appealled them 
 alltoChrift's Bar at the Great Day, to Anfwer for w r hat they had done, and 
 were doin \. They asked if I wouidhavean Advdcat f Ifaid, My Lords, that 
 isordinarly denied to Perfons in my condition ; they declared-, I mould have as 
 many as I pleafcd :, I faid, I would have none, but my Blefled Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 BlcfTed be HisHoly^Iame for it, He isboth with me, and in me. The Juftice 
 Clerk asked, if I was a Quaker, or a .Fifth Monarchry Man r 1 told him, I abhor- 
 red both, yet my Affection was relevant, being BlefTed of my God with the Grace 
 of Faith: And then they read niy Indictment, and asked at every Article, to 
 which I anfwered* affirmatively. 
 
 - Then,did theJufticeClerk ask,if Ihad any thing to fay for my fel.fj faid,I Bleflld 
 the Lord I had: theyDefired me to proceed, Anfwcr,i expect myLortis,being aFree 
 B^mScots Man,Ifhall have tkePriviledge allowed me,that theChriftians in former 
 dayshadamong'theHeaihens,theJufticeClerkbids me proceed there a/e twbthings, 
 which. I hope your Lordmip will grant e're we procceed, further, fir ft do you 
 not Acknowledge,that the Almighty Godjehoyah is SupreamLord &Governour of 
 Heaven and Earth,& that all Kings in..theEarth,are but hisDeputs ckServants-, the 
 Juftice Clerk (ayes yes. I he Second, Do ye pot Ack*owledge,that all theLaw in 
 the WorldamongChriftians muftStrike Sail to the great Law, the Law of God : to 
 which I got no Anfwer:, whereupon I took WitnefTes and Protefted, that it might 
 be Recorded in Heav*iS ^he"n they prefTd me to proceed. I told him theAdvocat 
 ( offering to follow 'his^wn method ) had drawn out my Declaration : my* 
 
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 terds yotT have been at much pains to feek my Accufation, I have been fo 
 Ingenuous to Exhibife it to v^u my felf, for which I Blefs the Lord firft 
 Article that I own my felf toji Presbyterian, and to be bound to continue Co 
 conform toa Covenant, that can not be Infringed by no Power under Heaven! 
 Now, my Lords, I being under Rich ftrong Imprefiions of thofc my Obligati- 
 on^ the lead I can expert, -is to know by what Authority this is broken > To this 
 I got no Anfwer, they declined further Queftioning, caufing and commanding 
 the Jury to be called*, and after they had asked, if I had any thing to fay againft 
 them, they fwore them \ defiring me, that if I had any thing to (ay to the Jury 
 to proceed: I faid, my Lords, its hard to devolve me upon a Jury before I be 
 heard, for which I charge you all to make ready to Anfwer before my Great 
 Matter, at the Great Day, and this Jurie alfo, as to what ye do in this Affair 
 Then they defired me to foeak to the Jury, for the Advocat was to have the h£ 
 word : then Lthinking I mould have occafion to haveReafoned with the Advo- 
 cat anent my Lyblf ; told the Jury, That the Principle I held in my Declaration 
 wxsof fuch a Nature, as I durft not, if I had as many Lives at there are Pickles o! 
 Sand on the Sea Shoar to redeem them all, with the quitting of the lead hair- 
 breadth thereof : Then I pre/Ted the Obligation of the Covenant, expecting the 
 Advocat's Anfwen They asked if I had done? I anfwered, Yes,as to this Then 
 
 Defenfive Arms betwixt two fmgleMen} But for multitudes, he knew 
 Defenfive Arms againft {landing Laws: Then did I offer to Reply but 
 they would not fuffer me, but recommended jne to the Jury, ftr icily Tying 
 them that the Condemners mould put it to after their Name and Affizers 
 likewife: Then I came conveyed to the Outter-Houfe by the Guard where 
 my Father came to me within a little, and told me he had been dealing with 
 the Lords for a Delay, but had not got it fo long as he expected- I told 
 him, that whatever my good Lord's will was, I was fatkfied, but Tie fpeak 
 nothingof that my felf.: :Me fays well, I knew that, anfffo he leaves me 
 . I am called in again within half an H©ur, and my Sentence intimated to 
 be Hanged at the Grafs-Mcrcat, upon the 26th inftant. I faid my Lords 
 without a Hearing, cither before the Juftices or Jurors, this Praaice was never 
 parallels among Heathens, and further my Lords andjurors^ I declare, and that 
 upon good grounds, that if upon this Sentence you Hang me, you (hall not be 
 innocent of Crucifying the Lord afrefh, in me his poor and infignificant Mem- 
 ber : They called, iHtter him to fpeaic no more. This is the fume, fo far as 
 my brittle Memory will allow, and T am confident there wants little or no- 
 thing of Moment: Now for fatisfaaion, both to Friends and Foes I have 
 Judged it my Duty to add what follows. . - • > 
 
 My bleffed Lord and Matter hath determined mine Heart, in all this my 
 
 my Tryal( next to his own Glory ) to have my Eye upon the Edification and 
 
 Confirmation of his poor Diitreft and Oppreft People, my Companions in 
 
 r ■ a u1 ' T' aS alfo t0 defign as much as PoffitoetheConYiaion of h Is, and our 
 
 protclt and avowed Enemies j moved me, without au# previous Deliberation, 
 
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 to aflcrt thefe Principles and practices contained in my Tndi&menr v and to add 
 that other affertion which I did be fore my Sentence, before the Juftices and 
 Affize: I fay my bleffed Lord having thus. determined and moved me ( for 
 which I blefs his Name ) has not left me in the Dark, as to Grounds and 
 Warrants for what in and through fuch a poor and empty Reed, as I ?.m he 
 hath done, which Grounds while I offered to the Ju (rices and Ailizes, for my 
 Vindication, I am ( contrare to all Law, Equity and Reafon ') refufed that 
 privilege, a Privilege granted even by the Heathens: Thefe Grounds, I hive 
 thought 'fit to leave under my Hand, for the comfort of the Lords People, and 
 ( if not the conviction ) the Terror of his ( and ours for his fake J Proud, 
 infolent Enemies as follows. - 
 
 You Remember, that before Loffered any Defence, I Demanded of the 
 Juftices, that they would £rant me the thefe two Principles, to wit. Firft, that 
 the Almighty God Jehovah, was Supreame Lord and Mafter, over all in Heaven, 
 i and in Earth, and that all Kings, and other Rulers in the Earth, are his De- 
 putes and Servants v this they granted. The fecond is, that all Laws in the 
 Earth muft ftrike-Sail, and Vail their Caps to the Supream Law, the Word of 
 Cody and be Regulate by it, this they refufe to grant, which Tlookt upon as 
 'rnoft Horrid Blafphemy, and tooklnftrumentson the Refufal thereof, ( which 
 I know ftands Recorded in Heaven, to be produced againft the. Denyers, at the 
 Great Day of, the Lord ) I doubt not, if that Young Noble Man wh-o Refufed me 
 this, had been prefent, when Mr. J ?hn Pater fori Propofedthe Queftiontome, 
 if our King wasComptable to any, to whom I Anfwered, he was.* He asked 
 to whom, I faid to thefe, by whom he was Intrufted : He Anfwered, then he 
 could not be Soveraign, Intimating that there could be no Soveraign but one, 
 whom we Presbyterians hold to be the Almighty God Jehovah *, to whom alone 
 indeed it is high Treafon, for any Mortall to fay .vhat doe ft thou : It being 
 lawful dejure, to ask any Mortall King an Account of his doings, as need Re- 
 quires *i though defatto in the cafe of Cruel Tyrany, this be Dangerous : I fay, 
 if this Noble Man had heard this, he had not fo rafhly Refufed my AfTertion *, 
 But whatever our Rulers do, I do, and I hope with me, all that has the lead 
 Smattering of Religion will both grant, and firmly in his ftrength, hold both 
 thefe Principles*, for to me to grant the former, and refufe the Latter, implys 
 a. Contradiction; now laying thefe for twofure and inviolable Foundations : 
 I go on, .as if I were before the Juftices and Jury, to deliver my own grounds, 
 which my God laid to my Hand, and anfwer any thing of Objections, I 
 meet with either before the Secret Council or Juftices. 
 
 Now my Lords of Jufticary, and you Jurers ( taken thefe Principles for grant- 
 ed ) my firft AfTertion 1 have to Vindicate, is this *, that I own the work of Re- 
 formation, as the fame is contained in the Confefion of Faith and Catechifms, 
 conform to the Covenant againft Popery, Prelacy md Eraftianij he , and am Re- 
 foived by the Lords Strength, to bide by the fame, ( and feing, that it is 
 Lawful for any Man to Weild his Arms, for his beft Advantage ) to this I 
 Subjoin tht InvolableOMigation of theCovenant,to adhere tothefe Principles and 
 Practices. - Now my Lords this work of Reformation, thefe Principles and 
 Praitticcs t>ein& fuch, as lfind Warranted from the practice of Chrift, and hi >. 
 
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 tApr.ftles >ni rot only I, but his Ma jetty, and ail under hi m, in thefe 
 , being bv the Oath. of God, which fhall never be Diiolved by any 
 Power the leaft lean e*pec1 of yoar Lordfhips is, thatye will offer 
 what, that may be Satisfactory to my Conference, in this point, if ye deny 
 thfejfchen iWU the World judge that ye will Murder me, becaufe ye will 
 MurdeVrae, all th?t I have heard from any of your Members againft my Prin- 
 -- (i mply Was from the .Bifhopof Edinburgh, who afrer he had infinuatean 
 jment with me in Doctrine and Woribip, fee med fairly to infinuate, that 
 Dilcipline and Government were.left undetermined, mv anfwer to this is, that 
 this is horrid Bhfphcmv, and no lefs-uopn the whole Matter then to fay, that 
 our bleffsdl ordjefusChrilt was kfs faithful in theHoufeofGod than msMyfc/, 
 and who having, the leaft Senfe jof a Deity dares to averre this ? Well my 
 I ofds this being all I have offered by any of your Lordfhips againft my Princi- 
 ple 1 heps it Aan4s firmly rooted in the- Hearts of all that love our Lord. Jefus 
 Chnfr, that they are thereby net in the lead:, (haken. and fmce it is fo, w lich I 
 mufttake*Or granted, having nothing offered to the contrary: I rauft for 
 tir- confirmation of the fecond brench of this afTertion pofe your Lordms,by 
 what Authority an Oath, a folemn Oath made betwixt the living GOD's Party 
 contraQer-on the one hand, and his Majefty and the whole Body of thefe Nati- 
 ons on the other hand, in as folemn a manner as ever Covenant was tranfafted 
 I fav I mail ask by what Authority this Covenant is infringed and broken ? 
 Tothislget no aniwer neither except what I got from the above mentioned 
 'Bilhop who told me he had not taken this Covenant : For anfwer, it had 
 been a erear pity this mafbr Prelate of yours, had not been amongft the Peo- 
 pie of ffrael at that time, when the Plague of GOD overtook them for the 
 breach of Covenant made, as fome thinks, Four hundred years before that 
 with the Gibeonites, und thi, Covenant in it felf nothing fo justifiable as this 
 which m*y Bleffed Lord -has fet me hereto JuftinV, I fay, it had been a pity, 
 this Pitifull Prelate had not been there, its nut likely he had obtained a Sufpenfi- 
 on of this Famine upon this head ; but let this proud Prelate confider, that he 
 Charges the Almighty with injuftice in this Praftice, which you have Recorded 
 in the- Sim. zi. <hap. He muft either own this a pieceof Horrid Blafphemv, 
 orelPconfefshis Argument is of no force: Now having I hope, Rolled oat of 
 the way any thino 1 have offered for mv Satisfaction in this matter, to come 
 "nearer the point, I charge your Lordmips or any here who fetsthemlelves againft 
 ine on thefe heads again to tell mej by what Authority this Oath binding to two 
 HecefTaVy and Indiipenfible Duties is repelled ? Dare any Morrall here hold up 
 his Face to Heaven, and averr that his Majeftey's A£b Refciffory doesrepell it, 
 then let him do it upon his Peril, and wjien he , has done, know that belidcs his 
 Blafohemyinir, he Contradict the firft Principle, which your Lordlhips have 
 granted me." That this may be the clearer, I hope all will grant that none can 
 Diffolve an Oath made by another, except he be above that other in. power and 
 Authority of Pjcha Decree as gives Right to doit, of this I Remember, only 
 two Inftancesin Scripture. The one is, That of a Husband if he hear . 
 his Wife making a Vow, ifhebenot Satisfied with it, he may thenunty it ; 
 But if by his Silence he let it pais, the Oath ftands firm. The Seconds is o\ a 
 
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 Father having a Daughter in the Family, to whom it is granted to ahnuilthe 
 Oath he heares her making while in his Family, and when out of the Family, 
 the power ceafes : From this it is evident, that this is a Superiority over them, 
 that Intitles them to this Privilege. Since it is fo, dare any without Horror, 
 offer once of Dreaming to apply this in* our cafe ? I fufpeft by this time the 
 Juftice Clerk finds himfelf outfhot, in granting my firft Principal *, O that the 
 Lord would open their Eyes, to fee the Affronted Indignities done to our mod 
 Glorious God, in thefe their nioft horrid and Abominable ^raftiCes. Now 
 having Removed what is offered by ,the Oppofers, and fettled by undenyed 
 Arguments, my Affertion of the equity of our Work of Reformation, and the 
 Inviolable Obligation of the Covenant, while Sun and Moon endures to own 
 the fame-, I hope I ihall not need to rack my Judgement, for Arguments to 
 prove? that my Devolvement on an Aflize without a hearing^ after I had offer- 
 ed to Juftifie my Principles and Practices from the word ofGod ) is not only 
 a denying of thefe my two Principles, but the moft horrid of Murders, as I hope 
 ihall be cleared more fully in the clofe, and here you may fee the reafen of deny- 
 ing my fecond Principle, but of this more afterwards. 
 
 The fecond Affertion I am to defend is,that the Xaw r s overturning the Presby- 
 ^fr/^Church&Eftablifhingf^//?^rv,particularly thefe three A els. To wit firft, 
 TheAclRefciffory,whereby at one dafh theGiorious Fabrick, fometime the Glory 
 of thefe Nations is Overturned. Secondly the Aft of Supremacy, and A£l Ex- 
 planatory of the fame, whereby our Bleffed Lord is fet by his .Chair, and a poor 
 Worm fet down in his Room. Thirdly, That Aft called the 'Teft, a Hotchpotch 
 of Nonfenfe Lies and Contradictions*, that thefe and others oftheir nature were 
 null, and afferted Principally *, becaufe contrary to exprefs Texts of Scripture 
 ( and this poflibly has Straitened my Antagonifts, as to the granting of Our 
 Bleffed Lords word, "to be the Supream Law, ) and for Confirmation of this, I af- 
 ferted, I thought the Parliament enafting thefe Afts was al fo null, as not being 
 : free, a Qualification 'abfolutly requifite in all Parliaments in .this Nation, the 
 Privileges of which I am bound by the Covenant made with the Almighty God to 
 affert. ^Now my Lords, and you Aflizers, I take forgranted,~ that all Laws of 
 Men contrary to exprefs Texts of Scripture arenull, and that thefe Afts,aridall 
 of that nature are fueh *, I fhall in the Lords ftrength endeavour to prove. And 
 Firft, the whole work of Reformation being agreeable to the Word of God, and 
 though it were not foinitfelf, ( as lam firmly perfwaded it is ) yet in my 
 cafe, by all Men who have not with their Confcience, Debauched away their 
 rcafon alfo, it muft be granted to be *, ( feing I have had nothing offered to the 
 contrary ) and I being under the Oath of God to maintain, Propagate and De*- 
 fend the lame •, the Afts overturning the fame exprefly, Contradifts not only 
 all thefe Scriptures, upon which it isfounded ( which time will not allow me to 
 Enumerate here ) and you may find in your Confefticn of Faith, Nfcted upon 
 the Margine of that Book, but alfo the Third Command, Thoujbalt not take the 
 Name of the Lord thy God in vain •, and that, perform thy Vows Unto the Lord 
 with multitudes of this Nature, which upon a very moderate inquiry may eafily 
 be found. Now my Lords, if my Second Principle be found, as I hope your Lord- 
 fcipsare perfwaded it is, for all you have faid to the contrary, I hopeyOjr Lord- 
 
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 ihjps Will find your felves concerned to fatisfieme as to thefe, e're you- proceed 
 to the Execution of this your Unparalleled Sentence, As to the Second, 1 think I 
 fhall need to be at lefs pains about it, in refpeft, not only your Lord (hips*, But I 
 fufpeft the greater part, if not all the Afiizers have Sworn as to the fame in your 
 Tefij That it is Blafphemy far.Manor Angel, to prefume to Intrude into the 
 headfhipof the Church, as being only peculiar, to my Bleffed Lord and Mafter 
 Jefus Chrift. 
 
 But for Confirmation, I defire you to confider thefe Scriptures,. Firjt., the 
 firft Chapter of* the Ephefians 22. 23. Verfes, And he hath put all things under 
 his Feet, and gave him to be the Head over all thirgs to the Church, which is 
 his Body. the fullntfs of him that fillet h all in all. Ija.g. Chapter 6, 7. Verfes* 
 And the Second Pfalm, Now that any Law. made againft thefe exprefs Scrip- 
 tures is null, with the confideration focefaid, of vour own Confeftion, and the 
 Confent of the greater part, if not -the whole ( io farr as I know ) ReformeJChur- 
 ches, would teem to be fufficien tly warranted. 
 
 The Third. Asto that of the left, that it is' null wifreafrly appear at the firffc 
 reading thereof, to any that will be fo daring, as to aver, that to'twear Nou fence 
 and Contradictions isnoSin : That it is Non fence to fwear to defend thePro- 
 teftant Religion again ft Presbyterians, and a Contradiction too, ImuftafFert} 
 ay and while you condefcend upon a Proteftant Church who have expunged us 
 out of their Number, except that Abominable, Perjured Prelatical Party, whom 
 I cannot, nor ( I trull: in GOD ) ever fhall own- for any other thing, than Emi£- 
 faries from Heli, fen t through Rome, for the Confounding of the Chriitian 
 World : And if to fwear the King to be Head of the C lurch and with the fame 
 Breath, that isJicfcrridBlafphemy.fo to do, if it be not a Contradi&ion, I knew not 
 what is*. For" confirmation hereof, Let the Unfreenefsof the Parliaments becon- 
 fidered, and I hope none who love our Lord Jefus Chriif, xvill doubt, that I had 
 good ground to affert, what I have through His Grace afTerted •, and 1 blefs His 
 Name thereof J am no waysafbamed.^ And if the Enemies will, fure I am , they 
 muft grant, that they were all bound in Confcience, Law, Equity and Reafon, 
 to have told Co much, which they, nor none of them, had the Confidence to do« 
 TThe Application I leave to the Impartial Reader, 
 
 The Third thing I have in task, .is to defend thefe AMertions following, to 
 wit, That I own the Hamiltaun Declaration, and when we were invaded 
 or- AfTctulted by any per ion whatfoevr, in the Exercife of our Reformed Re- 
 ligion and Worinip upon that account, we wee obliged to ftand to our own 
 Defence : That I own the Lawful-nefs of Field-Conventicles, and our- being 
 in Arms to defend our felves in cafe of being Molefted \ and that I my 
 felf was ever ready to Own and Defend my Brethren in Arms-when invad- 
 ed as faid is^ And declaring that the Invaftons made against -the Lord's peo- 
 ple at Pent land and Rothwell, they being then in' the Exercife of their Re- 
 ligion,was fervice doneto theDe.vil,and the refiftance made by them in their own 
 Defence was Service done to GOD. Now the fume of all thefe AfTertions is, that 
 it is the Duty of Proteftant Reformed Churches to ftand to the Defence of 
 their Reformation and Religiot : Efpecially with this confideration, that with 
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 Parliaments, and many other particulars which if time would allow TccmH 
 enumerate \ Confidering efpecially, That this Church and Kingdom are oblig- 
 ed To to do, by a mod folemn Oath made to the ever living GOD, they their 
 Kings their Princes and Nobles, and the whole Body of the Realm, and that t/ns 
 Oath ftands ftill unviolate as you may fee above. The cafe thus ftated, -I hope 
 our Adverfaries will not deny, 'that if the Turk, or any Foreign Enemy, fhouli 
 invade us, and in his Declaration mew, That he would not lay down his Arms, 
 till we mould Renounce our Reformed Religion, and quite with all our Civil 
 Priviledges •, I hope none, in his Right Wits, jwill refufe, that it were our Duty, 
 Man and Mother-Son, from the higheft to rhe lowed , fo draw to Arms in our 
 Own Self-defence. But it is like fome will fay, That though we were bound & 
 to do againft Foreigners, yet we may not do fo againft our Lawful Princes. To 
 this 1 Anfwer, fi>&. They are divided among themfelveshere •, Some granting, 
 that in fome cafes, even their own Lawful Princes may be refitted, and the Arms 
 •of Innocent Self-defence made ufe of againft them. Othersfay, No/ But what- 
 ever they fay or think, either this Pofirion {hall ftand to the World's Fnd , That 
 there was never a Power given of God, to any Mortal, to rugg and deftroy the 
 Souls of the Subjects, and to ruine them in their Civil Interefts j or otherways, 
 there was never a Power given of GOD to any Mortal, to eriaft iniquity by a 
 Law,and to force Obedience to thefe iniquibus Laws by Fire and Sword, as it is 
 in our cale} And if any Monarch or any pretending CommifTion from him, mould 
 arrogate a Power to do fo, the Subieft beyond all contraverfie is called to ftand 
 to his Oivn Defence, and vindicate the htnour of his Great Supream Maft*r ? 
 feeing he is vinlented to the •Denyal of Alledgeance to him, by his pretended 
 Depute or Servant : I fuppofe this will not be refufed by^any that believes that 
 there is a GOD. And for my felf, 1 triirik he who comes out with Armed force 
 to compel me to fin, fhoald be in the felf fame way ferved, as he who mould 
 with Violence come to drive me quick into Hell, and 1 fuppofe the greateft 
 of the pretended Loyalifts amongft us if they heard and believed the Screichings 
 of the Damned Souls there, and law no other way of efcaping, but either over 
 or through their Soveraign, they would venture upon either, rather than be 
 driven into it. And to fay any Soveraign how Lawful fo ever, otherwife has 
 fuch a power is to contradict that Scripture, Kings are given to be a Terror t§ 
 evil doers, and encouragers of well doers. If it be faid thefe things mould be in 
 a civil manner Reprefented or Arms be taken : I fhall readily grant this, but 
 why were thefe Minifters and Gentlemen taken and incarcerate who were endea- 
 vouring thus ? And why was there an Aft of Parliament, if I may call it.fo, 
 made Dichargingany of the Subjects to meet andConfult in order to this? And 
 indeed 1 think he fhould be extruded the Society of Mankind who would make 
 this afTertion, that our otherwife Lawful Prince may lawfully do any of thefe 
 things abovementioned to his Subjects, and that the W T orld mav fee, I fpeak not 
 here at random, bepleafed to confider thefe two Scriptures, Firft the x^Cbap. 
 of the firft Book of Samuel. Secondly the 12 chapter of the firft Book of tne 
 Kings. To this I add the 20 Chap, of the fecond Book of the Chron. 16. verfe, 
 Now whofoever (hall ponder and ferioufly confider thefe three places, will fin i 
 three Kings of the Lawfolnefs of whofe coming to tkeir Crowns 1 fcnownon c 
 
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 that doubt* all three rcfifted by theijr Subieas, the firft in offering to perform s 
 a rafnand finfuj Oath, the fccond for offering finfulJy to opprefs Ms people-, 
 The third for dipping too far in the Matters of God, for which he had no 
 
 Mow with Submiffion to the more Judicious , I hummy conceive the Ground 
 of the Equity ot this Refinance lyes here : That Kings and Subjects are under a 
 Twofold Relation one to another-, Firft, in refpeft of the Almighty GOD, who 
 js the. Only Abfolutc Sovereign and Great Lord, both he a ad they are Fellow* 
 Subjects 3 and with him, in finning againft the Laws of This Our 
 Great M after, none of his Fellow-Subjecls dare, under the pain of Eternal Dam- 
 nation ihtheleaft fymbolize -, but on the contrary, adhering to our Allegiance 
 to Our Great Liege Lord, we are bound by Our Allegiance, in our Stations, to - 
 refift every thing offered to His Dimonour, by whomfoever. I hope this Truth 
 is clear to any that knows, that the Laws ot GOD are equally binding upon 
 Kin^s-andSubjeas. The fecond Relation -13, That whereby the King, under 
 GOD is King, and to Rule the People for GOD's Glory, and the Good of the 
 Kingdom, and to be a Terror to Evil Doers, and an Encourager to Well Doers : 
 in which Relation the People are his Subjects. Now, . thvjre is none of my Per- 
 fwaOon, but are willing to give Cafar his due, that is, to obey all his Lawful! 
 Commands, and-yeilahimall Encouragement imaginable, he Ruling in the Fear 
 ofGOD, the People for GOD's Glory, and his and their own Good. But if a 
 King, (baking off all Fear of GOD, willenter in Open Hoftility againft Heaven, 
 and force his People, by Open Hoftility, to mare with him in thefe Abominations^ 
 Iaaainfay, the People are obliged, in purfuance.of their Allegiance to their Su- 
 pream Lord, not only to refufe Obedience to^this His Depute^ but alfo to refift: 
 him in purfuance of tWs his War againft the Great LORu. \ I hope, I mail need 
 to fay nothing for clearing of this, to any that knows .that there is a GOD,whofe 
 Holy Nature entitles' fiim to Abfolute Sovereignty, .- and to WhonivSubjeclion is 
 due' from that His Blefled Nature - ? and Natively, cur Subjection is d.ue to Him 
 for not only our Being, but our Well-being. Upon the other hand, the King's 
 Power ( the Government it felf, in general,' being of GOD, yet the Application 
 ©fit to this or thatPerfon, to this or that Modell of Government, either by E- 
 k&ion or'Succeffion ) is£>f Man, acc@rding to that, BefubjeZ to every Ordinance 
 of'Manfor the Lord's fake'. I fay, ^ cafe (landing thus, not only in purfu- 
 ance of our Allegiance to ourGreat and Abfolute Sovereign , are we obliged to 
 refift what is offered and carryed on to His Dimonour ^ and this, leaft we mould 
 partake of.other Men's Sims, but alfo, the People who have conferred that pow- 
 er being Violented in all things that are precious to them; and the Government 
 appointed of GOD, degenerating into Tyranny, may Recall the power given, 
 and not only refift,but turn out fuch'a Tyrant,for wholeTyranny he had no com- 
 niiffion, from them. I hope, none who will grant the Sixth Command, Thou 
 (hdt not Kill, to be Binding, will refufe this. The Reafon is here, he is beyond 
 all'doubt as guilty of Murdej who impowers to do the fame, as he who actually 
 does it- Now I hope the cafe ftanding thus , all Impartial Readers will fee, how 
 uniuftly we are condemned for owning the LawfulnefsofDefenfive Arms-, which 
 \ mall endeavour to make yet more clear in my Application of thefe Scriptures a- 
 
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bove cited, and my Anfwer to what I heard from our Antagonifts on this Head. 
 And firft, As to the People's refifting of Saul, it being aw Aft of Loyalty to their' 
 Supream Sovereign, in hindering his Depute to perform a Ram and SinfulOath. 
 I wonder with what confidence., that Man, ( it he be one ) or rather Monftrous 
 Jefuitical Atheift, Bifhop Fat erf on, could fay to my Glorified Brother, John 
 Wilfon, (whofe Murder is yet recent ) That he doubted if they did right info 
 doing. Sure I am, the Juftice Clerk will not fay fo, who has granted that the 
 Almighty GOD is Supream ', and confequently , that Subjects dare not without 
 Sin, fuffsrany thing to be done toHisdifhorrour, that is in their Power to hin- 
 der ;, and that to Swear a Rafti Oath, obliging to Murder, isof this Nature* I 
 hope I (hall not need to prove. And Secondly, As to that of Rehoboam , that 
 Tyrannical Wretch, making off all FearofGOD, and rejecting the Councilofthe 
 Old-Men, to his own Ruiae *, that the Subjects were in their Duty in carting hirn 
 off, I hope none will reftife, who knows what Intereft the People have in making 
 • of Kings*, and that none needs to be ignorant of, who will be pleafed to read the 
 17 Chapter of Deuteronomy, from the 14th Verfe to the End.: As alfo, that the 
 People are bound in their Stations to oppofe the Tyranny of their Princes, lead 
 they may (hare with them in their Judgments. Tyranny and Opprefiion being 
 a palpable Violation of theLa^vs of Our Bleffed and Supream Lawgiver. Thirdly,' 
 As to that o\Vz,z.iah, that he becoming ftrong and lifted up, in meddlingbeyond 
 hisSphere with the matters of GOD, is given for the Ground of the Refiftance 
 he met with : And fu re in our cafe, our King has yet been more ftrong and 
 . more lifted up ( I fear to his Deftruction )' in fo tar as the former did only offer 
 to perform fome Office that was only peculiar to the Priefb,- but never offered to 
 overturn the Worfhip of GOD, of his own Appointment*, and to introduce an 
 other diametrically oppofite to the Revealed- Will of GOD, as it is in our cafe. 
 
 Now 1 fay, cur King having out done VuLiah in his affronted Rebellion againft 
 Heaven, w 7 ho can blame the People if in ftandin-g to their own defence they 
 JLncieavour to affert that our Bcffed God is abfolute Soveraign 'and Mafter,and 
 that nothing Commanded nor impofed, exprefiy contrary to his will, which we 
 flill hold to be our Supream Law 7 , can be binding upon them, this will be yet 
 m®re clear as what we Afferted *a little above, that Kings and Subjects are but 
 Subjects to the Supream Majefty, if you confiier that after he isthruft out of 
 the Temple, he is put in a feveral Houfe upon the account of his Leprofie, thai 
 which was likewife done to the meaneft Subject he had in the like cafe, and what 
 if the Miniftery in the Church of Britain and Ireland, imitating" this Laudable 
 example, \#hen ever they perceived that Dreadfull Plague of a more dangerous 
 Nature then Leprofie, and yet more- Infectious ( which I take to have been the 
 reafon oftheir Separation ) I mean our Kings horrible Adulteries, Perjuries, 
 publick and Private Oppofitions to the Almighty, with that Abominable endeav- 
 our to introduce Popery ( anent which you may fee more in my now Glorified 
 Brother John Wilfon his Teftimony ) I fay what if they had by a Sentance of 
 Excommunication fet him apart by himfelf? And what it the People had owned 
 them by fo doing ? Sure I know none that has the leaft fmack of Religion would 
 have Condemned this, and I pray God the Miniftery yet living, may be brought 
 to the Senfe of their guilt in omitting this, but whatever be in this, furel am 
 
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 Ac people Violentedfor not Concurring in thefe' Abominations, cannot be Con- 
 demned for landing to their own Defence. This will be yet further clear to 
 any who confiders what I have offered by the Enemies of our Bleffed lord for 
 my Satisfa&ion in this matter. And firft, Having made ufe of our Bleffed Lords 
 Precept- co his Difciples, when about to leave them in a Persecuting World to 
 wit. But now, he that has no Sword let him Sell his Coat and Buy one. Sir 
 
 were thefe .two Swords of the Spirit ? To this he replys no more then the Stone 
 of the Wall behind him*, And now further, I w^ould advife'that Gentleman as 
 he tenders his Souls Eternal! Well-being, that he feek Repentance of God for this 
 fo homdly Blafphemous Expreffion, which is no other, then to Charge^ our 
 Bleffed Lord with Commanding of Simon^ how Hainous a Sin tills k 7 Heave to 
 any tender Confcience to condder. 
 
 Next, that Gentleman Mr. Bamrman who they faidReprefented the Kings 
 Advocat there, of whom e're I proceed further 1 muft tell you my thoughts, 
 I thought indeed he there Reprefented the Devil, I thin* rxnGroundlefly for.the* 
 Devil you know isftiled theAccuier of theBretheren,how*ntar heReltmbled him 
 I leave to the Readers confideration •, Another thing laid of the Devils is they 
 Believe and Tremble, whether this Gentleman Believes or not, I fha 11 not Deter- 
 mine, but fure I am he he Trembled and fo. Repeating my Concefijons offers 
 this Defence a good'felf Defence that he has heard of felf Defence betwixt fingle 
 Men, bat there was no felf Defence by Multitudes againft^ aw ', I think indeed 
 to Repeat this vain Defence Refutation Sufficient,but confuting the Advantage of 
 others I fhall divide U, it is in it felf in two parts, thefirtfis this "Man feemsto 
 yeeld that one Man may Legally Defend himfelf againft another, -and what if he 
 .be not able to prove that two or three of us were fti'l againft one / I hope if he 
 prove not this againft all, he muft Liberate all that-were not Chargeable with, 
 this, and fo wast)ouiid to have Defended me confirm to his own conceftion, I 
 think this Gentleman mould have Condecended who thefe 'prwiledged Perfons 
 are that they may Defend themfelves and who not •, But to the* Second Branch 
 that there-is no felf Defence by Multitudes againft Law Justifiable, where was 
 this Mans Memory that he willhave my Innocent and juft felf Defence a- 
 gainft Law / Did I not teil him Immediately before that there could be no 
 Law againft exprete Texts of Scripture/ And that I might the better prove this 
 Defired they would grant to me, that the Word of God was the Stream Law 
 to which all other Laws behoved to ftrike and vail *, now this being Refufed me 
 and nothing in theleaft offered for my Satisfaction, I hope none will Doubt but 
 thefe Men Avowedly before the Face of the Sun fet themfelves and their Laws 
 up above our God and his Laws, fo that all lhave for theGroundof my Senltnce 
 upon the Matter is this, though God himieif hath faid you are Right and 
 though his Word which you call his Law fay (o too, yet we haveaLaw and by this 
 Law you moft By e, who would not Rejoice in a Sentence of this Nature, that 
 does fo nearly P„efemble that Blafphemous one pafTcd upon his BlefTed felf/ Biefs 
 O my Soul the L.rrd thyGod 7 there is.aij Expreffion in iny Subscribed Declaration* 
 
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 which I know our Enemies upon Chrifts Account do not a litle ftartfe at and 1 
 am Apprehenfivemay, fcem harftrto fome of our reall Friends upon midake, 
 theExprcffion'is this, that the Enemies invafion made at Pentlandmd BothvaR 
 for the Adhering to their duty was Service done to the Devil, and the Lords 
 Peoples Innocent felf Defence being fo AfTautled, was Service done to God. For. 
 Satisfaction both of Friends'and Foes in this matter I mall offer toyour Confiier- 
 ation what follows. - 
 
 I hope our Enemies them Pelves will not deny, the Presbyterian Mini iters of 
 the Church of Britain and Ireland to be Faithful Miniders of Chrid Jefus, 
 if they do, they Lhoudd have done us the Tuftice to hrtz intimate the fame with 
 the Grounds thereof: Sore I .auKths behaviour of the grofleft of them would 
 feem to cry aloud the co.ntrarv, when they come to a D^ath Bei.where reject- 
 ing thefe perjured, Atheistical, blafpheruous. Hirelings, they call for a Presbyter- 
 ian Minilter, witnefs, Mr. John Elis and the laft .Chancellor with many o- 
 thers I hope none of ourFriends.doubt this,tb then we fhall take this for granted. 
 Well then( if they be Miniders as we mod firmly hold-) efpecially having 
 nothing from our Enemies to the the contrary, but rather a (km Confirmation 
 as 1 have (aid, I hope ye will grant me alio, that they -are bound to obey that 
 Coirimiflion in the lair ofMstth. two lad f^erfes, Go ye therefore and teach all 
 Nations, baptising them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
 Hd\ Ghoft y teaching them to obferve all things yoh at fo ever I have commanded 
 
 World Amen. I hope I need 
 ommand and Commifiion of 
 ind all,and needing. tie fufFer- 
 age of no Mortal:, Let it ftand as a fure Truth then, that our Miniders are 
 Chrift's Servants, and that our blerTed Lords Commifiion to themxo Preach is 
 ftill binding, and (hall be to the Worlds end. .. I hope I fhall need-to be at little 
 puns to prove, that by that fame Commifiion the Lords People are obliged to 
 hear ; l hope none will doubt this whoever has Read that Word, Rom. 10. 14. 
 tfow can they hear without a Preacher* Now the cafe being thus, that our Mi- 
 niders are Miniders, and by vertue af their Commifiion they " are bound to 
 Preach, and confequently we bound to hear, and that under no lefs Hazard then 
 refuting Obedience to one of the laft Precepts of our bletfed Lord and Mailer 
 Jefus Chrift. I hope none who owns my firft Principle will yet fay, that any 
 Mortal can invalidate this. Commifiion, or hinder the due performance of this fo 
 absolutely nece(Tary,and indifpejifible a Duty, to which we are the more En- 
 couraged to yeild Vol un tare Obedience becaufe of his Promifed Prefence there- 
 in to the end ot World, I fay none will fay lo, that Beleives there is a God, if any 
 (ay that this Satisfies not as to the gathering togexher in Multitudes and going to 
 the Fields 1 hope this will have litttle Weight with any that Confiders this was 
 practice of ourBleffcd Mafterandhis Apodles they being Acted bv an Infallible 
 Spirit, and fo their Example is a Sufficient Warrand, and our BlefTed Lord him- 
 felf being God-man, and fo EfTentially elevated above all Sufpition of being 
 Miftaken,! fty thefe Sufficiently Warrand this. If it be further Ofrefted, hut 
 why are you there in Arms? I Anfwer fird, We have our Blefied Matters 
 Precept for it in the 22 of Luke the 36 Verfe, in thefe Words, But now he that 
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 him Sell hi* Gdrment And Buy one \ Now having removed what has been offered 
 by our Enemies a gain ft this, we (hall ftudy in the Lords Strength to reinforce 
 oar Argument therefrom : Andfirft I would have you notice the Emphafi* 
 in the words, but now as if he had (aid my time in the World here is to be as to 
 us a peaceable time, what I am to fuffer here beim* Tranfacted betwixt me and 
 my Father* before the Foundation of the- World, and I being obliged in the Room 
 ofloft Mankind, to take on me Flefii and Bloody and all Human Frailties, fin only 
 Excepted, that I maybe a Gcmpleat Saviour, this being my free offering to my 
 Father ', andconfequently I being to perform all ' that is requifite herein, not on- 
 ly freely but cheerfully, therefore during this time there is no hurry to be madeln 
 the Worldupon my account, and I atteft youiTelves if in following of me, even 
 conform to this method you have found your felvesat anyDifadvantage in wanting 
 cither Purfe, Scrip or Sword : But now,- now that I am going to leave you after 
 that I have Performed, that which was tranfacted betwixt the Father and me be- 
 fore the World was founded, you are not to be fo pallive would he fay as before, 
 that being contained in the Belly of the Fathers Tranfktion and mine, and there- 
 fore I command him that wants a Sword to Sell his Garment and Buy one. Now 
 as to this Sword, our BlefTed Lord commands his Difciples to Buy, and in them all 
 that fhall Succeed them to the end of the World ( for I fuppofe our Enemies will 
 not fay this Command was given them as Minifters, leaft thereby they mould 
 wrong Caefar ) being commanded them as Chriftians, I demand our Enemies, 
 what thefe Difciples were to do with their Swords, for my part I know nothing, 
 if it were not either to offend or Defend or both I expect they will not readily fay, 
 dither to offend or both ( though I humbly conceive they mould not err much 
 info faying, efpecially if they confider aright the Penult Tfalm^' then they mu ft 
 fay tome, that it was to defend, and if to defend be in any cafe lawfull aslamfure 
 it is, then in our cafe, I am confident none wiK refufe it, who has read and con* 
 fidered what I have faid before. 
 
 Secondly, we have ■ the Example of Abraham for this in 'the 14 of the 
 Gencfis^ wherein a cafe nothing fo favourable as ours he practifes Self-Defence, 
 and I hope -the mtift daring of our Advefaries fhall not dare to condemn him for it. 
 Thirdly that "Scripture, Whenyou are Perfecuted in one City . fl.ee to another^ 
 Helps in this cafe to fatisne what we have* faid, and in this I have the fuffrage 
 of the Englifi) Law made ufeof by*Sir George M'-hn^ie in. Jiis Criminals, 
 whereby the Defendant is declared innocent if to evidence his Defence, he 
 have fled fome few Steps, and who doubts but when flight will not do, theJDe- 
 fendant may refill: by Force : To all this if you add the practice of ail Reform- 
 ed Churches, and the prefent practice of the Hungarians ^ I hope I fhall find, you 
 have not had the beftGround to queftion our going to theFields to hear the Word 
 of GOD preached in Arms, -efpecially confidering that this was a practice we were 
 forced to from abfolute neceflity, feing that our being in Houfes rendered us 
 more lyabletobea prey to our Enemies, Now I hope whoever ferioufly pon- 
 ders what the Lord has given for Defence, here will not think. that we were ferv- 
 ing God in thefe Meetings, which 1 with all confidence averr we were, and 
 blefs the Lord that not only I, but not a few thoufands in Scotland has it to 
 f iy to the Commendation of hisiree Grace 3 and commendation of this fo much com- 
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 mended way, that we have found our Lord as good as his Word, in being 
 with and Countenancing usy and this being fo, I doubt as little to averr,th.\t the 
 Affauiters upon this account, coming in a Hoftile manner, without the lead 
 provocation upon our part, were in that ferving the Devil, for who but ths 
 Devil would give Orders to fire upon a People in the actual Worfhip of GOD, 
 for no other reafon, but becaufe they were fo doing. 
 
 Among the other things, that through the brirtlenefs of my Memory I have 
 omitted, this \vhieh I have got from another hand, is one ^ That after Sen- 
 tence , I Attefted the Lord, that ever fince I underftood what Treafon and 
 Rebellion were, I h*ad ever abhorred both Treafon and Traitors, Rebellion 
 and Rebells : To which their Anfwer was, that every word I fpake was Trea- 
 fon ! To this I Pveplyed, that I was forry that what my bleffed Lord and Ma- 
 tter accepted off my hand as indtfpe nfible Duty, mould be by his Deputies and. 
 Servants reputed Rebellion. 
 
 I mud add here alfo,that in my Conference with Sir William 2$f*r/w7,agajnft 
 my Affertionof ChriiVs Headfnip of the Church, he offered this Anfwer,thathe 
 knew that Chrift was Head of the Invifible Church, infmuating, t^anhe King or 
 any other they pleafed might be Head to the Vifibie. 
 
 To this my x^nfwer is, I fear this Gentleman has wronged himfelf mere than 
 he is aware of, for having renounced Chrift Jefus my bleffed Lord and Mafter, 
 to be He»d of that Church, of which heow^ns himfelf a Member, he does more 
 than faintly infinuite, there are no Members of the Invifible Church amengfi: 
 them, for if they were,*they would hold Chrift to be their Head, and in fo do- 
 ing, do nothing but what is their Duty. But I would ask this Gentleman, w ne- 
 ther he looks- upon our bleffed Lord's CommifTion to his Difciples, as a fuf- 
 ficient Warrand for them to manage all the Affairs of the Vifibie Church? and 
 where he has his Warrand from the Magiftrates mediing further in Churth 
 Affairs, than to fee what is ordered by the God of Heaven, exaclly done to 
 the Glory of the God of Heaven*, which I look upon as a Pow T er Circa faera^znd 
 not in facri.% - Sure I am, all that have any thing of the Exercife of their Rea« 
 fort', will fay he was bouRd to me in thefe,. But whatever his Sentiments be 
 in thefe Matters, I am confident that our blefled Lord and Mafter in thisCom- 
 miilion to his Minifters to Preach and Baptize, gave them Commifllon alfo te 
 exercife Discipline and Government, fmce the one cannot confift without the 
 other, and that as to the Obedience to this CommifTion, they are 1 'able to An- 
 fwer to none even in their vifibie Eftate - , Eutour bleffed Lord Jefus Chriir, 
 their and our bieffed Lord and Mafter and Head, anent which the Magiftrates 
 Power is only Cumulative not Privative. For further clearing of this, 1 hope 
 Sir William Paterfon will not refufe it, that our bleffed Lord was-' Head of that 
 Church whereof Judsu\\"\s a Member, and if fo his fancy of Chrift's being only 
 the Head of the Invifible Church will be found a meer Chimera •, For I doubt 
 nothing to averr, that under our bleffed Lord and Mailer in his Vifibie Church 
 there is no other Power granted to any Mortis but to his Minifters of his own 
 Appointment, whom he has cloathed with a Minifterial;Power conjunctly un- 
 <Jer him, to a£fc in his Affairs as they fhall anfwer to him their only Head: and 
 though. amoflgft thefe his Minifters, fh us by Jiim iropowered, there may and 
 
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 ouzht to be a Superiority of Order for Decency, yetamongfl: them we find no 
 Warrandin all the Word of God for a Superiority of Jurisdiction, as is pra- 
 Aifed among that Prc/arical Party, who have to this Abomination^ added that 
 otiier of the Renouncing of Chrift to be their Head,and with the fame Breath, to 
 the aftonifhment of all that have the lea ft im predion of a Deity, have fworn 
 the contrary in their Tefl. ■ 
 
 Now my Lords of Jufticiary,and you the Aflizershere Sworn,! hope no Man 
 who hath anythingleftoftheExercifeofhisreafon will deny, # that you were 
 bo-nd in Confcience (4f you bnow there is any fuch thing ) and in all Law, E- 
 nvirv and reafon to have given me Satisfaction, not only as to what I have hinted 
 atVv way of Defence for my felt, but alfo to have fatisfied me with a Satisfactory 
 Anfwer to whatis ftanding.on record,ieft by our Country Man Mr. Rutherfoord, 
 fve-v Eminent Light in his time, and one much Countenanced of the Lord in 
 his Books called Lex Rex, due Right of Presbytery, and his Peaceable Plea* 
 hx alfo in that Book Entitled Jus divJmtm minifterij Evangelici, Wnten by our 
 SrtSfdll and very Reverend, and DeariySeloved Brethren the Minifters of Lo«- 
 /I and as Eminently worthy and Reverend Mr. George GillefpU his AfTertion 
 ofChurch Government, with his Aarons Rod* as alfo in the Apologie writen 
 hv thetWO Reverend and Worthy Divines Mr.- Hugh Smith and Mr. Alexander 
 
 ■Jamtfon, and in the Apologetjcal Relation, NaphtalL > Popul h and fever al 
 £wi in all which you wilhfindthefe Principles and Practices, I have Aflert- 
 ed own d ^ and offered my (elf in the ftrength^f my Bleffed Lord «T Defend, 
 whether in my Principle or Additionall Declarations and Teftimonies , tuily, 
 
 ' Sly and Satisfactorily, to all Unbyaifed and unprejudicate Per,ons afferted. 
 Proven, Vindicated and clearly made out from the word of God ( wkich I yet 
 Jrlr UbetheSupreanrLaw) the Law of Nature, and the Law of Nations', 
 found Veafon^d Iblid Senfe: a'nd fmce it is fo, which all the World mud grant 
 
 jujiiu iv,ai ' .,, , c.p ^ Ct-^fiXVinn V.prpanp»nt- hvvniir pither Total 
 
 WledgeU firmly affent, you were bound to give ftt.sfia.on »J»*g 
 things ; efpecially confidering, any Anfwer has been g.ven to any of rhefe , has 
 been°the burning of Rnne of thefe Books by the hands of a Hangman in a F.re, 
 a very forry AniW indeed , but however, of a pe.ee w.th the reft of your fight- 
 *nes anainft the Almighty -.And how durft you, tor«your Souls,offer to Fire fuch 
 R^KfolXdi!g4eibyfuch P recioufiy Worthy and Eminent Authors-? 
 ffk had no S «en noLv your defpite to theSpirit ofGOD, and fhevv 'that you 
 Will ffill ao on in Rebellion againft Heaven, and who knows not that the burn- 
 ers of Books founded on the Word of GOD, have more than enough of Jnch- 
 nationto burn that Holv and BlelTed Word it felf ? And indeed I think .t not 
 ftran"e to fee Men porting hard to Ramfj* ; you are doing, to vent your Inolma- 
 - "onsfhat way, fince it isnota few Years fiace many of your fharpeft Fnar , 
 found you to be Men of the fame Kidney with the Am-Chnft him.elf that 
 Whore who fits upon the Head of many Waters, whole Judgment lingers not. 
 Andifa«vbefidea P Fire, has been offered againft anv of thefe, ,t has been byo- 
 •tiers foeLnly wiped bfe that thele Bocks ftands ft.ll in V.gour, and fo doa» 
 
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 my AfTertions and Principles fox any thing I have ken or heard to the contra ry # 
 Now I leave it to all the impartial in the World, to judge wha: Affront is here 
 offered to the Almighty, in cutting off one of his Creatures ? Tocur King, in 
 cutting offone of his Subjects f Who to this Hour, never heard a Challenge for 
 Difloyalty,ifit were nocfromTuch as makesLoyalty Difloyaity,&Sin Duty:, which 
 Challenge I very chearfully bear, beings fufficiently perfwaded of the unjuftnefs 
 thereof,and to Nature in cutting off of their fellow Creatures: and all this with- 
 out (b much 4s a Hearing of what he had to fay for himfelf;or any thing of an An- 
 fwer toany of thofe wholias fufficiently Vindicated all thefe Principles and Practi- 
 ces, for whith he was upon the Pan nal*, and yet in this matter* are thefepoor 
 Men more guilty in this refpecl, that they refufe the Pannal the benefiteof fuch 
 Dsfenjces,as he had very good ground to believe fhould have been offered . by the 
 Almighty himfelf, conform to his Promiie'of giving in that Hour whatfoever 
 fhoula be necsftary for any of his, in my Cafe. ( I mean funding before Rulers 
 and great Men to bear Teftimony te the i ruth ) I fay, I being helped of my 
 Bkfied LORD to Aft Faith on His^ Promife, and finding my BlerTed LORD 
 and Mr^iterprefent by his Spirit to have performed the ianie, and I having inti- 
 mated fo much to them ( as you may fee above ) How durft thefe difpifers of 
 GOD'refufeme thebenefneof thefe Defences fifthis be not to declare opQn 
 Hoftility againft Heaven, I know not what is ) and^fince it is (b, as I can with 
 connd#teafrertit was, and the very enemies themfclves ( if they had' n«t been 
 dangeroufly hardened j could not but have felt it. to be^ for which my Soul Brill \ 
 ever'blefs his Name, and I hope I fhall not be left alone here, expecting the 
 aftiftanceof not a few in thefe Nationsin this matter, who- have in this particu- 
 lar, to the refrefhment of their Souls, found a new Proof of our GOD's being 
 the Hearer of Prayer. I fay again, 'thefe things being {o^ I hope none who are not 
 engaged in the fame rage againft GOD, with thefe his Enemies andours, upon 
 his Account will doubt but their whole procedure againft: me in this matter has 
 been a Decreed and intended Murder, notonlyagainft me, but alio my Bieffed 
 LORD and Mafter in and through me. And lea ft any fhould miftake me here, 
 let them but con fider thefe Three Scriptures. Firft, He that touches you? touches 
 the j4ple of ?nine Eye. Secondly, In all their j4Jlic'uio/7s he was Aflitled. 
 Thirdly, Paul, Paul, Why per fecutejt thou me'? And I hope the miihke Hull be . 
 rubbed ofE And now having through the Bleflingand Afliftance of the Almigh- 
 ty? g°t ten m y Teftimony brought to this Pate, that the cafe betwixt his People 
 and them is clearly ft a ted*, to evidence, that not only I, but fuch others of our 
 perfwafion, all the Nations over, are indeed Chriftians, 1 refolvein the LORD'S 
 ftrength,as he fhall aflift, to leave behind me a Teftimony of my Tendernefs, 
 both to the Souls and Bodies, of &ich as has given no fmall Proof of their TbirfU 
 ing after my blood, in dealing with them, as follows : 
 
 And now, unto his Majeftyour King,muft 1 Addrefs my felf, and to all un- 
 der him, from his Brother the Duke of Tor k, to all the Counfdlors, whether 
 Publickor Secret, in the Three Kingdoms*, and under them, to all the Sherirf?,. 
 Juftices, with their Clerks and Pendicles of Court, even to thefe of the meaneft 
 Office fl mean the Denapfters ) and after thefe, to the whole Magiftrates of 
 Burrows with their Pendicles to the loweft *, and then to all the Members of thefe 
 
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 Parliaments, fince his Majefty's Reft juration, whether fuchas did fit "thereby 
 Birth, or were Elected*, and as to thefeEle&ed, even to their Electors: and in a 
 Word, toaKandfundry who have concurred with, Homologate or Ratified 
 your Uivuft Sentences pronunced againft the Almighty, whether more directly 
 or at lead in his Members. . ^ J * 
 
 Now, as to you all and fundry, I declare in the Entry of mv Addrefs, as in the 
 fight of JebovabiVihofc I am, ^nd before whom both you and I, e're long mufl 
 ftand naked and bare, to anfwer for all we have done in the- Flefti That my 
 defign in this my Addrefs, next to the Glory of GOD, the Good and Edifica- 
 tion of his People, and confequently the advancement of his Work. The Third 
 thing which the LORD my GOD has held before my Eves in all this my Trial 
 has been your Conviction from the higheft to the Ioweft, if poftible-, and that I 
 may the better reach that end my Bleflcd LORD has determined my Heart to fol- 
 low this Method, Fir ft, To deal more' particularly with vou in laying before 
 your eyes the-Egregioufnefs of your Sin. Secondly, ToExpoftulate with you to 
 return from the fame to GOD'SGlory, and your own Souls Eternal -well-being. 
 AndThirdly, And if in this I prevail not, to remonftrate the hazard of refuting 
 this my Warning. And Fourthly y Touke Inftruments upon what the LORD by 
 me,the Unworthieft of his Servants, has been doing for you, and of your Refufal 
 ( I mean as to fo many as (hall be fo far left of the LORD, as to refufe the fame 
 and Oh! that there might be fewfuch") then lam to leave my Compa nion s In 
 Tribulation, and Brethren in our tver Bleflcd and Eldcft Brother ChrifPfcius 
 the LORD of Glory with a word of Exhortation, and fo Conclude 
 
 Now,Great Sir, for to you and all under you, and who infti-.te'you to and 
 concurred with you in thefe Soul deftroying Pr Prices, T am in iheftrength of 
 Jehovah to xzmonRrdite, I Addrefs my felf, andin the firft. place, muft take the 
 liberty to tell you in the Name of m> great Lord and M«fter Jefus Chrift that 
 it is not unknown to your Majefty, nor any of thefe to whom I Addrefs my felf 
 jointly with you, that not only at your Coronation, your Majefty and all under 
 you, from the higheft to the Ioweft, but alfo before thefe whole Nations were 
 and yet are engaged in a moft Solemn Covenant with the Ever-Living GOD* 
 Party Con trader on the one hand, and your -Majefty and all under you in thefe 
 Nations,from the higheft to the Ioweft *, on the other hand, to the obferv- 
 ance of which Covenant, thefe Nations and all in them, fhall forever be bound 
 and obliged,from the higheft to the Ioweft, while Sun and Moon endures- nei- 
 ther is there any imaginable way of Diflolving the fame, efpecially confiderin* 
 that therein our Obligation being only to Amend .our Lives, and toWorflnp 
 the Almighty GOD, conform to his own Appointment, and tooppofeour felves 
 our Lives ancLFortunes, to all courfes and ways inconfiftent with thefe ends' 
 thefebeing^Moral Duties to which we were Antecedently bound, as is the Na- 
 ture alfo of all the Duties we are obliged to by thefe Covenants. Now Great 
 Sir, the- Cafe being thus, I hope ye will not judge your fclf obliged to fach as 
 makes this Defence for breaking of thefe Covenants,that your Majefty was forc- 
 ed thereto, for indeed Hook upon it as a great imputation upon your Majtfty 
 efpecially being Stiled Defender of t he Faith, to have been in any meafu re un- 
 der either Necefiity or Conftraint^o have joined in a Duty fo abfoiutly necefTary, 
 
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 and if there was anything of force where was - the Intimationjthefeof/ 1 fure 
 I am there was nothing thereof publickly to be feen, and yet giving but not 
 granting it had been fo your Majefty and all under you*, were unexpreffibly 
 more obliged to the performance therefore, then were the People of Ifreal to 
 the performance of that made with the Gibeonites as ma-y be feen above, nor 
 fhall I think your Majefty will think >our felf obliged to them, who mould 
 for Vindication of your Breach of thefe Covenants offer this Defence, that 
 your Majefty is under Covenant of apofterior date bound to the Pope and fome 
 of his Creatures to introduce Popery, and to Emancipate t,hefe Territories to 
 that Amichrifiian Yoke, if any fuch thing be, as the Carriage of the Court 
 this rconfiderable time too loudly infinuates, Sure I am it were more for your 
 Majefties Honour, and the Glory of God, and the good of your Nations to 
 break that Covenant than to keep it, it being a Covenant made againft the Al- 
 mighty, which by no imaginable pretence can be >uftified-, but leaving thefe 
 things to your Majeftiesconfidcration,andto the confederation of fuch as may 
 with you be concerned herein : I muft make bold to ask again, by what Au- 
 thority you came to DilTolve this Contract ? ( yea I may fay and that upon 
 good Grounds as Glorious a Contract as ever was made en Earth, while Ad- 
 hered to of as Glorious effects )1 fay I mud make bold to ask by what Au- 
 thority this is broken.? and unlefs youbelo bold as to run your felf upon 
 Bofles of the Buckler of the Almighty, in refufing that which the Juftice 
 -Clerk but faintly granted ( which the Lord avert ) I mean -unlefs you deny 
 Jehovah to be Supreme Lord and Mafter of Hea"en and Er.rth* and all the 
 Kings and Governors in the Earth to be his Deputies and Servants, I fhall 
 ttefy you or any Mortal to fatisfyme in this, if you confider what is faid be- 
 fore on this Subject, and what is contained in the feveral Authors abovemen- 
 tioned on this Matter , Noa' we (hall take it tor granted, that thefe Coyenantg 
 ftandsftill binding, and I am fure we hive good ground fo to do, for any 
 thing we have either read or heard to the contrary. Then great Sir muft 
 I in the next place ask, how it comes to pafs, that over thebetiy of thefe Co- 
 venants Fpijc p ic\ and Eraflitwifme ( againft which as to the unlawfulnefs 
 thereof, and their incorfiftency with the Word of God, who have fo many 
 Testimonies ftandingin Record, not only in the Word of God, but in other 
 Humane Writings, drawn and founded thereupon, without the leaft fatisfacti- 
 on offered by our Adverfaries ) come to be introduced amongft us who be- 
 fide the unlawfulnelsof the things themfelves have this to fay, that we have 
 Sworn with Hands lifted up to the Almighty, not only never to join with, 
 but with our Lives and Fortunes to oppofe either, I fay how comes r thefe 
 not only to be introduced, but we by Armed force Hunted, Haraffed, Plun- 
 dered, Tortured and Hailed to Scaffolds, for no other Realon, but our refuf- 
 ing ? Anent which the unlawfulnefs of the things were to us fufficient War- 
 rand though we had not been in Covenant, but much more being under the 
 fame, as for my part I can Dream of no Reafon for introducing of thefe, be- 
 ing (hangers in trie Church of Cnrift, not only in his own bletied time, and 
 the time of the Apoftles who furvieved him * ? But alfo tor three hundred 
 years thereafter, Nor do I ever . hear or Read' that any other ufe they we re 
 
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 introduced but for that ^michrifi^ that Man of Sin his Exaltation, being-* 
 nude ufe of theone ! Jivaacement is thatdamnable abfolute Supremacy 
 
 of hi? in t^e Church, and die other for the fame end in the State, and truely- 
 if this be the thing, it does not a little confirm me in the Belief of that fe- 
 cond Covenant you .and your Brother have nude with the Pope 3 which I men- 
 tioned a little above. ; 
 
 But I lay, How ctpne the Su&jecH of 2»m«mr and Jrdandy to be forced to £ 
 Cmuplvance with, thefe? Sure, you fay by your Principles, that you allow not 
 of the forcing of Mens Giafriences }>y the Sword', lsoKing upon it as a lurk- 
 ifiv Pi elate TPataj • i\ jv lately Martyred Brother, Jth* Wilfm^ 
 
 andwhv a worfet to this violently, Pracufing, contrary to 
 
 your Principles. In the next ■ come to enquire at vour Majefty, why 
 
 this Monitruous abominable Tcfl which the lurk him felt could not bucScua- 
 \xtx at, is not only Enacted to |1 his Majefties Subjects, here in. 
 
 Seeth?^ but altoby Vioiencean adedon many both Gentle and? 
 
 Sempie, Rich andPoor ! Why thkisdc e! cannot Divine, it it be not to let 
 the World fee, 3 d to out-do^Proud P >v\ch, in daring the Almighty?: 
 
 And why, Pray 'you, is there a Jthiag called, An Aft made, Discharging People* 
 to Allocate together upon a: -• tfoever, for their own innocent 
 
 and oecefTary {elf Defence without ygur Majrfj ' \l Command, and- this* 
 
 alfo Sworn to in that horred I- is r,v: unJfj own to any, that there 
 
 may many Emergen tsfall out, that mayrnak;';^ vyhich is by that pretend- 
 ed Law-, 'made noiefs.thanTreafon, become a mod necefiar and .indilpenfible 
 Duty, asinthecale of a fudien Invaiion by an Enemy, your Majefty being 
 at. a great diftance, and who knows, but t\\Q Al*rm may be keeped from 
 your Majefty by feme keeped about Court for that end ? Who doubts, .but- 
 infuch a Cafe, abiokite Neccflity will become a Law to the Peopled And , 
 who doubts, but if for ' fear of this Law any IhouLd \y. hy, but they might be 
 arraigned as yetgreater Traitors? And ifinthiscafe this fto-ald be juftifiable, 
 why not in ours,being foinhumanlyAfTaulted by a company ofMurderiiig?^p^ 
 ji$he iftsi or worfe ? And for any thing we know, his Majefty being all this 
 while a great (hanger to our Affairs, through the induftry of fome difarTefted 
 to the way of GOD, who are keeped about Court for that end :, I fay this, 
 as alfo that by the Inftigation of futh, there is a pretended Law made, DiC- 
 charging any i under the Pain of Treafon to meet or Con fu It, in order tothe 
 RemonftratiBg ofourCafeto his Majefty, will to alLunbyafted, fuificiehtly 
 Warrand our innocent felf Defence, as to what may be objected -againft this, 
 having hinted a little in the fore part of my Teftimony, and the whole of 
 our bufinefsin thefe being fufficientiy juftified by the feveral Authors above- 
 mentioned without anyAnfwer as yet. I fay again, Why areall thefe things 
 done? And now further, let me ask at your Majefty, Why are our Prifons 
 keeped ftill throng with Prfbners* fome Aged, (ome Infirm and Tender, fome 
 out of Capacity to mantain themfelves, for no other caufe, but that they defire 
 to keep a Confcience void of Offence towards GOD and towards Man, .and 
 fome Honourable Ladies alfo, for no other Reafon, than for Reletting and 
 :in»oi force -honeft and faithfull Minifters in their Houfes, or Reletting 
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 or Refrefhing feme of the LORD'S People in their Neceffities, I am fure none 
 who ever read the 25 Chapter of Matthew from the 31ft Verfe to the en J, 
 will look.upon this as a capital Crime, but as an indifpenfible Duty. I ftyit 
 again, why are all thefe things done ? is it to fattsfis thefe * Blood-thirfty Pre- 
 lats of yours, or fome of thePopiih Party whom your Brother has Hocking 
 about him in Swarms? a 
 
 Great,Sir all thefe fmall Sins? And befides are thefe Inumerable other SIns,have 
 you and ali thefe, to whom with you I Addrefs my felf to anfwer for, and thatthe 
 Weight thereof may be a little better laid open to your Mrfefty, and thefe 
 others I pray be at the pains with me to Recapitulate the fame yet once more, it 
 is no.fmall Sin do<you think to break the Covenant with GOD and to force- y«ur 
 Subjects to do alfo ? Is it no fmaLI fin to caft off the way of GOD, and to Banifh 
 that Religion of his own Appointment, and introduce that amongft us, which 
 both your Majefty and all under you have Vomited up and thrown out by that 
 Solemn Oath ? Is it no fmall- Sin do y©u think to Impofe Contradictory Oaths 
 upon your People and fo to force them to open Rebellion again ft the Almighty? 
 Is it no fmall thing to Tye your People as it were with Fetters of Iron, till 'they 
 get their Throats cut by that Atheifticall, Paplfticall, Malignant party, to whom 
 you have lent your Ear, now thefe two and Twenty Years and refufe all hearing 
 to your mod faithful and Loving SubjcTs, I mean fuch as are defiring as to give 
 the Almighty GOD what is due, in the next Place to give Cefar what is his, are 
 all thefe fmall Faults think you ? Is it a (mall thing think you to drive with the 
 Son of GOD for State, and to prefume to thruft him out of his Chair in his 
 Church which is his due as only head thereof f And yet to caufe your Subie&s 
 Swear this is horrid Blafphemy. Is it no finall Sin think you to lift up your felf 
 above the Almighty, and to fet up your Humane Laws above his Divine ones ? 
 I fay are. all. theie fmall Sins? If you either fay or think," fo I mult take leave tp 
 tell you, I differ from you in Judgement, and "mult further tell you my Senti- 
 ments thereof, and indeed great Sir, I look upon all thefe things as mod Horrid 
 Atts of Rebellion againfi the Almighty, what Sir if the meaneft oi thefe In fruit- 
 ed by yourMajefty in any Pcrblick truft, had offered theThoufand part of that In- 
 dignity to your Majefty,as to have openly andAvowedly before the Sun torn, a 
 Contract betwixt your Majefty, and the reft of your Subjects 5 and told all your 
 Subjects, that from this his Deecrthey were obliged tojoyn with him, in this 
 -fame Contempt of your 'Majefty, and mould have further told your Majefty's 
 Subjects, thatyour Power and Authority w T §a to" Cede to' his, and that your 
 Majefties juft Laws'made in. free Parliaments, Were to vail their Cipe to his petty 
 A&s, and fo forth of the reft, would not your Majefty have thought "fjch a 
 'Perfonftark Mad, and have caufed drag him out as a Traitor and Rebell f and 
 that juftly, ) for lo doing. 
 
 And truely, whatever might have Juftifyed your Majefty in fo doing, can not 
 Jbut Infinitely, more juftify our mo ft Glorious 'GOD in Serving your Majeft , 
 and all under you who have Concurred in this Rebellion, at that Rate of D 
 ing you forth, and giving you your Portion with the Workers of Iniquity, tnis 
 will be the more clear, if your Majefty confider what I have hinted before, and 
 -what is more fully contained in the Author ahoverrientiondd, and this your 
 
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 iid Rebellion 5 gain ft the Almighty, is not a little Aggravatee from the Peace- 
 able Reftautatfon you was Tryfted with fo immediately, before the fame, 
 what was this your return, for that fo fignall Providence? Sure you cannot 
 think, that in this you werein you** Duty *, I hope by this time your Majefty , 
 is rightly Airtcd where to find out the Traitors and Rebells in your Domini ' 
 ons, even there where #iy are- who have Irrigated, and Counfelled your Ma- 
 jefty to this Horrid Rebellion, whoever they be, if it were even your Brother 
 the Duke of York, to the meaneft under your Maiefty, now having in fomc 
 Meaiurelaid before your Majefiy, the Greivoufnefs of thefe Sins, with which 
 your Majefty, and thefe to whom with your Majefty, I Addrefs my felf arecall- 
 ed to charge your {elves, and Mourn, For lam in the next place come to the 
 fecond part of of my Task, which your Majefty may Remember was to Expoftul- 
 ate with you for a return from the fame toGOD's Glory, ahd your oWn Souls 
 Eternal Well being, which in the AiTiftance of my QOD, 1 (hall effay as follows; 
 Now iet meobteit you ail in the Bowels*of my Bleffed Lord Jefus Chrift, if 
 you have any Refpetl to the Glory of GOD, to the Eternal well being of your 
 own Immortali Souls, to the well being of your Pofterity, and to the Peace and 
 well being oi thefe Nations.of which you are all Members ( thought of different 
 Sizes J in tae fear of GOD'that you wobld lay a fiie your Enmity againft GOD 
 a a;i followed that Advice given in the Second Pf.ilm from the ic Ferfc to the 
 Clole, and that you may be the better helped to.this Read and ponder well that 
 whole Pjalmj. not forgetting topray over you* Meditations thereupon , and fet 
 Tome time a part for conilderingthe greatnefs of the Affronts you have to tjeovah 
 in all thefe A&sand Aclions v we have been weakly hintirigat confiiering there* 
 in, your Unparalleled Defpit'e done to the Spirit of God, in fetting your felves 
 fo, palpably againft tht Almighty, and fetting up your Mock Laws againft and 
 above that unerring Law of his, I mean his Bleffed' will Revealled in his Word, 
 *s alfo the Weight of the Blood you .have Engaged your Shoulders under, in ex- 
 teuting thefe your. Abominable wicked Laws, which is no lefs then the whole 
 Blood- f bed, fmce the Blood of Righteous Ahel to this very hour, for this confid- 
 er thar PaiTage in the 23 of Matbew, from the 29 to the 37 Verfe, the more - 
 Faithfuliyou are or any or you mail be helped to be in Judging your feives in 
 ihh matter, tUe greater hope in your cafe, I p£ay God none of you be fo far left 
 So. your felves, as to offer to fhift off this Charge, which I am fure you fhall 
 never have gaound to ctotill you have Solidly Anfwered all that is written in the 
 Word of GOD, for binding the fame upon you, as alfo in the abovementioned 
 and amongft the re3 ;in this poor and Fecklefs effay of mine, which I declare 
 as. in the fight oiGOD I have Ventured upon, ne^t to the Glory of GOD,, and 
 the good of his people, with an Eye to the Everlafting Well-being of the Souls of 
 one and a U of you, even of my moil inveterate Enemy, Mr. Pater fon Prelate 
 of 'Edinburgh as you call him, and becaule neither time will allow, nor ?s this 
 fo properly my Task* T I Recommend it to you for your help here to confult the 
 Writings of our faithful Divines, both in Britain and Ireland, where you may 
 meet with what may before your better help in this indifpenfible neceflary 
 duty, and whither 1 come [peed or not I muft advife you alfo even to confult in 
 rais nutter fuda of your faithfuil Minifters as are yetamongd us, I think it but 
 
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 you thould "Effay tftl$ »« the timeof your Health, whith not a few of you hate 
 ventured upon at your Death fearing that then it may prove too late, for 
 Teldom is lateRepentance fure Repentance : Now if you "fhall he helped of 
 the Lord tc grant me this my -Suit which is fo much tor the Glory of GOD, 
 the 'good of your own -Sou!,' the gopd of your Pofterity and of the Lands 
 wherein you live, I do nothing doubt but e're ^11 be done you fhall firid Rea- 
 fbr*to blefs the Lord, and to alter your Sentiments not only of me, 1>ut of 
 all who with me have been fo tender of your Souls as not fo dare to harden 
 y«u in your finfulCourfes by Concurring and going alongft with you in thefe 
 fo Horrid Abominations, and fhall not only think but find it verify ed upon 
 your Spirits, -ti at we have been ( that which we are indeed ) the onlyFaith- 
 fal and Loya,l Subjects in thefe Dominions, endeavouring in our Stations to 
 render .to the Almighty (GOD what is his, and to Ctfar what is his, which is 
 true Loyalty indeed •, For we dare not'Joirf with thefe that have in their rage 
 againft GOD combined with his Deputes againft him, and if you fhall be yet 
 fofar hardened as- to refufethis my fo Ufeful and to you profitable Advice, 
 Then muft I come in the third place to Remonftcrate the Hazard of your Re- 
 Fufal, which cannot fail but to be upon this Account the greater ^that you 
 fhall refufe a MefTageas ij were fentfrom the Dead unto you, andfo a greater 
 ftep of God's Infinite Condefcendancy unto you. 
 
 Well then that in this Matter I may be the more particular with you, I fhall 
 Obteft one and all of you to Con%Jer what ye will do in the day of Vifitation, 
 I mean ip the great and terrible Day of the LORD ( for as to particular Vifi- 
 tations m time, it may be you have laid your Count by them,and therein done 
 foolifhly enough to ) when our blefTed Lord Jefus Chrift ( againft 
 whom ye have been raging thefe two and twenty Years^ and it may be fome 
 $f you longer } fhall fet his Throne in the Clouds, and caufe found, the lad . 
 Trumpet at the hearing whereof, all that ever had a "being muft Anfwer and 
 Compear, and Stand Naked before our Great King and Head of his own Chu rch, 
 to whom the Father has Conimited the Judgment, and anfwer for what they 
 have done in the Flefh : Which His coming is as it fhall be the the Joyfuteft 
 tight that ever the People of the Lord did fee, fotoall the wicked it fhall be 
 the moft dreadful and terrible day that ever their Eyes beheld, and this the 
 rather that they could never be induced to~beileve theTarhe in time, fo it fhall 
 be a Dreadful furprifal to then?. 
 
 And nov^to begin with your Majefty, great Sir are you at a Point what to 
 do in that day ? It is Poflible for what Straits you have Forecaften in time you 
 arc at a Point, to Shelter under the Wings of that Antkhfift, that Man of Sin, 
 the Pope, with fome of mVAflbciats as the Kings of France and Spain, and fuch 
 others as with you have Combined againft the Lord, but what if even as to that 
 you be Difappointed? And what if all thefe have their hands Filled at Home, lo 
 as they fhall not have a Ma-n to Spare to you, to fend either to England, Scot* 
 landov Ireland^ Sure I am what ever Confidence you may have in them as to 
 that ( which the Lord himlelf Break ) yet in that Day none of thefe 
 fhall Avail ycu. 
 
 And for the DukeofftrJ, have you Six thought upon a Lurking Hole againft 
 
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that Day? Thfnk not 'Sir to Wrap your felfin the Bloody Cloathrof Acre lately 
 Murdered Martyrs, Noblemen and others, who by your Inftigation are Murder- 
 ed, for no other Ca*fe, but that they have been Endeavouring the Security of 
 the Proteftant Religion ( a Duty Indilpenfihly called for at their hands; the(e 
 fhall be'fofar from being a Shelter for you, that you fhall thereby be ( yet more ) 
 laid open tothejuft judgement of the Almighty. 
 
 Then for our Scots Cardinal, the Marquis of Humly, and his Depute4he 
 Chancelor, whole true Epithete ye may Read in the gch. of Jeremiah the Latter 
 partoftheSth. Verfe, wrrat Dreams thir Men of hiding themfelves ? Sure 
 they cannot be fo Infatuate as to think their Works of Supererogation ( if the 
 Murdering and Confenting to the Murder of the Lords People be fuch ) fhall 
 prove a Covering Broad enough for them. 
 
 And for that Blood Thirfty W retch Claver-Houfe, howthinkshe to Shelter 
 
 himfelf that Day ? 'Is it Poffibie the Pitiful thing can be fo Mad as to think 
 
 to Secure himfelf by the Fleetnefc of his Horfe (a Creature he has fo much 
 
 Refpecl for,thathe Regarded more thelofsofhis Horfe at Drumclog, than alt 
 
 the Men that fell there, and Sure on either party there fell Prettier Men thap 
 
 .himfelf) no Sure, though he could fall upon a ChytmJ} that could Extract the 
 
 Spirits out of all the Horfe in the World, and Infuie them in his one, though he 
 
 were on that Horfe Back never fo well Mounted, he need not Dream of Efcaping. 
 
 i Then ■ for 'Meldrum^ 1 think the Bignefs of his Belly will fecurehimas 
 
 to Trufting'himin his Heels, whatcan he tru^.in ? Poflibly he has laid up in 
 
 Store k> much of his Evil.Conqueft Goods, that he has Squized out or the 
 
 People in HviotdaLe^ the Mer.s, and other Places of the-'Nation, as he Attends to ' 
 
 Bribe Juftice thatDay £a Trick too Common now a Dayes)but if this Fancy be irt 
 
 , the head of. that Belly-god, I would Undeceive him in time, for I can AfTure 
 
 him he will meet with a Difappointnient. , 
 
 Now where thinks Major White to Shelter, he can not Poflibly Dream of 
 Creeping intoMunfmegg, lam told me is Riven by fome of the Duke of Turks 
 Creatures, its like he may be feen through that Breach, but this will be found 
 to him anUnfure hiding Place, the heat, the Vehement Heat of the Elements, 
 r-hat will be Melted thatDay, may fo Sore affecl: this Shelter as he fhalJ be 
 Melted outalfo. 
 
 Now for your Scots Pallas (I mean Sir James Turner another Major, a godly 
 -Leach indeed J what Dreams he to do that day,. efpecially when with his former 
 and Latter Rage againft the Almighty, he coii fid ers that Parage in his Pallas 
 arm at a ^ wherein he does no lefs than Spitt Venom in the Face of our BlefTed 
 Lord in his. poor Members, telling them that fome of them will fay, Curfe ye 
 Meroz.^ who neither 'know whether Meroz, be a Man, a Town, or a Country ; 
 Thefe are his words as I Remembered, and what if fome of the meaner fort of 
 your Brethren, wanting the Benefite of Education, fhou Id have been found m 
 this particular Ignorant? was there any -&erejy here ? Was it not enough for 
 them to know, that whatever /l/cr^;was, there was there a Threatening intend- 
 ed againft all who mould refufe Gods Call, to help our LORD againft the Mighty 
 and yet a far forer Wo againft all fuch as with him have Confpired to help Hid t 
 harden the Mighty againft the LORD, and if fome fuch fhculd have been Ignor- 
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 arvtifhe have Teen Jactfon on ths Fifth of the Judges, 23 Ferfe^he dare not fay 
 all were To, I fey whatdoes this Viperous Pnllat of ours intend that day /'can the 
 Body be fo Mad as to think of Sheltering amongft thefe Pikes of his ? ( a Weap. 
 on he fo much idolizes J which he muft have fo dofely Served together, and 
 when ail is done, he mud have a Rank ofHorfedrawen up before them Armed a)l 
 over. Now what if this mould not ferve his turn even againftMen?For who knows 
 not, that as good a Fellow as himfelf, being oppofite to him, might command off 
 a Serjeant or Lieutenant, which a Commanded party of Halbardiers, and poT- 
 fibly a few Sythej Difcharging them to return, till they have killed fome of thefe 
 Horfe? Sure I am in this cafe f which is nothing impoffiblej our Served Pikes 
 behoved to ftand ftill, and fo leave the Wings of Shot to advance alone ( which 
 I think he would not do of choice ) orothefwife he mud come over thefe Horfes 
 Tumbling before him, andfo rndanger his falling in tiiat Embarrafs, he is atio 
 much pains to Guard his Difciplesagainft, and if this Shift of his can not fecure 
 him again ft Men (and I am fure there are many Thoufands in the Nation Sharp- 
 er-lighted in thefe Affairs, then either he or I ) how does the Mad Creature 
 Bream he fhould here fecure himfelf again ft the Almighty. 
 
 And now having Touched theTefew particularly ,becaufe fuchasl have Obferv- 
 ed to be mors Mad in Rage agawfi the LORD^and again fi his Anointed than many 
 of their Brethren *, I inTift Jo pofe the reft anent this fame Queftion, and in a more 
 General manne'r, anent which e're I proceed, I fhall give them'this^Advice, not 
 to look upon their Sin as Specifically Different from the other, but only in de- 
 grees, and it may be fome, I^avenot Named, be as far Benn in their Rage 
 againft their Maker, as thefe I have Named: lam wnder a Neceftity here to 
 mention that Wretched Creature four Country-Man) the very Bane of 
 the Country, who if he be not as far advanced as any againft our Lord, he 
 is not to be blamed forjt, fince it is not want of Good-Will, but Pith, that 
 keeps him back, his Name is Sir John Whitefcord of Milton, as to you with 
 whom I am to deal more generally, if ye be Confcious to your felves of Iefs 
 Activity in this Rebellion, nor your Brethren, your work of Repentance will 
 be the more eafie which 1 beg our good God may both facilitate and haften, 
 I come then Erft la the Members of Parliament, that have been under our 
 King, the great Agents in all this lamentable Cataftrophe, whether fuch as are 
 fo by Birth or Election, and as to thefe who have been fuch by Election even 
 to their Electors; And at you I inquire,where think you to fhelter ia theGreat 
 Day of the Lord i I can not think you are fo Mad as to Dream that hi> M aje- 
 xlies Letter will ferve your Turn here. » I fuppofe you know your Privileges 
 better, that it is due right in conjunction with his Majefty to Enaft Laws in 
 this Realm, and fure when thefe Laws,againft which, I in the ftrengthof my 
 bleffed Mafter have fet my felf, came to be enacted,' you could not but know 
 that thefe fame were not only contrary, directly-contrary to the Will of God, 
 your and ourSupream Lord and Mafter, but alfo contrary to the very, man/ 1 
 then and. ftill. (landing Laws, -( notwithftanding thefe mock ones of yours to 
 the contrary ) how then durft you in obedience to that Letter do any thing, 
 01 meddle with any Oath that might import either a Refiling from o 
 ^reateft Soyerajgn, or a Counters ft in-g of Laws, by as good^at leait 5 if not be:- 
 
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 ter Fellows thanyour feWes ? I mean our own Predeceflors who ha?e had mwe of 
 the Countenance of God one day than you ca 1 wit,i the lea ft fhadow ofRea- 
 fon pretend to thefe. twenty two, or twenty three Years. 
 
 And for your Electors, have you this to produce for your Vi'i&puion that you 
 called the Members by you.EJe&ed to an Account for their M n ? If 
 
 you have not this, I hope I \\QQd nottell you, that you'tnuit Cover under the. 
 Short and. Narrow Mantle of the Kings Letter with the reft, and againft you 
 and thefe Elecled by you,and thefe fitting there by Birth, (hall th« relinquishing. 
 of thefe Parliaments on thefe Terms of both Sorts, not only be aftandlng Tefti- 
 mony, but ihall alio quite Denude you of your poor fhort and Narrow Mantle, 
 ca 1 y<JU Dreamer think aLetter from our poorClay King, can not only.Vindicate 
 you from what juft Refentmentyou-may ( in ourbleiTed Lords time and way ) 
 sliest with from fucceeding free Parliaments*, bu-t alfo from what our ^Glori- 
 ous Lordthimfelf may juftly quarrel you with r for fuch grofs affronts againft, 
 the Sacred Majefty of Heaven in thefe Hellifh Ac"ls, and, A&ings ? I fay, can ye 
 be-fomad as .to Dream thefe things?, If you ! be, lean afrureyou,in theblefTed- 
 Nameof my BleiTvd Loud and Matter, you (hall find but a pitiful and empty Dream. 
 
 Next mutt I come to the .Sheriffs,- Conftables, Bailies of Burrows and Rega- 
 litys with ali ethers under his Majefty, and free called Parliaments of what-, 
 {onier Rank quality-or condition, and ask at you where you mind to (helter , 
 in that D^y for your Executing;, of thefe GOD provocking, Soul Deftroying, , 
 Church Confounding, Nation- Dividing and only Devil pleafing Atts of theirs ? 
 Think ye to .Shelter your felves either gander thefe A&s themfelves, 
 or the Authority of the Perfon ena&ing the fanu / Know you not that : 
 thefe A&s in their full vigour are againft the Almighty, arid have, for their 
 tendency next to h s di (honour .the confounding of hisChurch, Qppreflion of his 
 People both as to their Spiritual and Temporal, Privileges, and the pleafureof 
 Belzebub only and his Agents ? And think you the Authority of thefe pitiful 
 Servants and. Deputes will fhelteryou from our great LORD him felf, whofe dif- 
 pleafure in thefe affairs you, could. not be ignorant of if it were not wilfully, 
 which will never excufe yow r and if you will^iot believe-me, I hope ye will Sir 
 George M^faniLtf of %pjehanghy who fays the fame in his Treatife of Criminals, 
 and fi nee I have here met with him, I muft anent him tell you a very fad 
 Story, J being at the Caftle-hillpi Edinburgh upon a Morning with two Com- 
 roerads,..fome 17 or 18 years ago, he and Sir George Lockart and Sir Andre* . 
 Bimie^ my Memory ferve me ftanding by us, looking upon fome Companies 
 of FcqL .wh3 were. Marching down the Long-Gate to Leltb Links, who were 
 Levied, a little after the Rein trod u&ion of the Horrid Prelates,. I heard him 
 diftin£lly fay { fchp Devil take me if ever I loved the Church that flood in need ' 
 of fuch Ruling Elders as thefe \ I tell this the rather that the Reader with me, 
 may the better pafs our Judgment, anent this Man, who has oftner -than once 
 or twice, RaJced Hell for Inventions to Vent his Love to that Church, which he 
 feeE^edthen toldath, and his rage againft our. GOD in that Church which he* 
 did, at leaft tacitely then feem to be a favourer of, Well may I ask at this 
 gentleman if he has Ratified this his fo frank Refignation to the Devil/ O is 
 i: his to&Hn^s nl ^1$ Matter th.at M Occafions that Horror in his Confcience, 
 
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 which- Pome call Hypocondrick Fittsj others ExcerciPe? If it be a Right Chri/h- 
 an ExerciPe indeed, I pray it may be through} but his fo freqnent Relapfes, 
 gives the* more Ground than I defire to fear the contrary.- 
 *' In the next place, I come*to ask'at the Soldiers ofa lower degree, forwith 
 the. Officers I have met already, and what I have faid to one, I exfJeft they will 
 be lip favourable to them Pelves, as to look upon- fa id to all, unlefs they have Pome 
 particular Exceptions that I know not of, the benefite of which I allow them, 
 defiringthem rather toerr in judging of themPelves too "much than too little'. 
 And to you Soldiers- 1- Pay, where think yon to fhelter your Pelves in the great 
 Day of our LORD/* Do ye Dream to fhelter your Pelves' undet^the Command of 
 yourSupream Officers? Iffo, I think you have a very pitiful Plea, for in the 
 firft place, hereby you" denude your* felves of the priviledge due to 
 all Rational Creatures (I mean of your Difcretive Judgment ) and in the next 
 place, tHe commands of all created Powers, is only in fo far a Warrand to the' 
 ObPervant as that command. Quadrats and agrees with the will of our Supream 
 Lord and Mafter, whfch I affirnr-ftill to be the Supream Law : Now where are 
 you Poor things, if thefe Commands you- have been obeying be Diametrically 
 oppofite to the Supream Law, I mean the revealed will of our Supream Lawgiver, 
 which none whochiely ponders what is here written,with what is contained in 
 the abovementioned. Authors, will eafily get refufed, if this hold as Purely it muft 
 for any thing we have heard to the contrary, then you are frill to Peek for a fhel- 
 ter, for yourOfficers Commands will no-more Pecure you, than their Superiors did 
 them, which isnot at all as you may fee above, and I hope yet more afterward. 
 For my own part, I muft here Vent my Opinion which is, I look upon no more 
 as Lawfull but what is purely Defenfive, neither do I think, the War gets the 
 Denomination of OrTenP«vex>r Defenfive, from the Priority ct"Pofteriority of Pari- 
 ties contending in their Aflaults, or infalls upon one another, fo much as 
 upon the Equity or Iniquity of the ground of the Quarrel, he upon whofe fide 
 Equity frands, being ftill Defender, and the other Offender, and this in all the 
 Revolutions of the War,to the end,whoever purfue, whoever?!/, \vhocver give 
 the firft,whoever givethe fecondblow/I mean with the SwordJ for the War with 
 me is determined as to'its nature^ ere it come to blows if it begin not by a blow, 
 which ieldom lails out.* And now I hope my Lord Boyd, as 1 remember, is fa* 
 tisfied as to that Curious Queftion proponed by him to me by another, who ( if 
 I remember right was Mr. David Thores^ Advocate) in the* Outter HouPe, 
 when I was OverPeeing the Writing oPmy SubPcribed Declaration, propofed the 
 fame, which was, If the Infall upon Glafgow was in fell Defence / I am fure it 
 was, however pitifully managed by fome there. 
 
 And now in the lad Place ( fearmg I have been- too Tedious already ) I muft 
 Adrefsmy felftoa Mixt Multitude fome upon one Account, fome upon another, 
 who may Pofiibiy think they have not been foAclTve as the Reft,as being as bur 
 they call itPaflive in the thing, if the Enaclers and others above Spoken to have- 
 been Guilty in their Activity, Dream not of Efcaping under that Feg Tree Leaf 
 of Ra (Vive Obedience a Perfect Chimera ('in the matter of Sin ) for there is- 
 nothing will Judify Sin, whether Committed Active or PafTive, and to call a 
 . Mans Sufferings tor not Sinning Palfive Obedience is to make ufe of an Unpropet* 
 
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 Speech for it is indeed DifobedL-nce and Suffering for the fame,- and to Dream 
 theie have been Simply Paflive, to whom I am to Addrefs my felf, becaufe their 
 Pra&iceis Warranted by a Human Law, their TranfgrefTion being againft the 
 Almighty GOD Jehovah, yet more Unproper. You (hall know the Perfons I 
 intend here a^efuch Matters of Ground in the Country, as for fear of Mens 
 Laws have Refu fed our BlefTed Lord, fo much of their Ground as to meet with 
 his People in for Preaching arid Praying, and the Red of the Duties of Publick 
 Worfhip, though the Earth be the Lords and the Fullnefs thereof, then fuch 
 Matters of Houfes, whether in Burgh or Landwart, as Refufe the Poor People of 
 GOD, either Shelter, Meat or Drink, then fuch as Concur with our more 
 Active Enemies in putting usinPrifon, Convoying us to Scaffolds, meeting us 
 inCrofsways, looking upon us_w r ith Satisfaction in the Day of Dittrefs, and 
 Refuting for fear to Vifit usin our Diftrefsas they are called ( but BlefTed be 
 the Lord, many of his Poor People have found them among their "Chiefeft 
 Enlargements.) iucli I fay,as axe Guilty ofthefe and many others of that Nature, 
 theft being Sir?, all againft GOD, as you may fee on the Margined the Scriptures 
 Cited there, the Committing thereof, can neither be Fxcufed by the Commands 
 or Laws of Men, nor by that Dittinction of Paflive Obedience, which I faid in 
 the matter of Sin is a Meer Chimera, becaufe I had this Paflive Obedience 
 ottered to me by Sir John Lauder, whom I did not know then to be Sir John, 
 and therefore called him only Mr. Lauder, for which I hope he will readil/ 
 Excufe me my Ignorance. Being in fo me fort Invincible, I fhall firtt give an 
 Account of that meeting and what patt there, then Endeavouring to Satisfy 
 - Sir J olm in that matter, and afterward Return to the Perfons I have in hand, 
 iome three or four Days before my Efcape being called down, I knew not to 
 •.whom nor for what End, till I was Convoyed by one of the Keepers untoa little 
 Room in the Hall, where I fees Sir John and another Gentleman, whom I 
 knew not then, but Underttands fnce to have been a Brother of the Juftice 
 Clerks, Andrew Youvg Writer to the Signet, Mr. John Vafs oneof the Keepers, 
 and another Gentleman, whom 1 knew neither then nor C'?uld learn fince } 
 when I came in, Sir John Lauder Saluted me, telling me, that partly out of 
 Refpecl: to my Father, his Father,and mine being Old Accquaintance,and partly 
 cutof Refpecl: to.my fe]f,he had come to Pay me a Vifite, I .told him there was 
 no Civil Gentleman but mould be Welcome to Vifite me,then they defireime to 
 Skdown, I am no fooner Sit down, than Sir John tells me he did Companionate 
 myCondition,Itold him I wasnotfenf bleof any thing in myCondition that called 
 lor hisCompallion(Tof whfth IBlefTed then,ard I hope fhall ever BlefsmyGOD)he 
 fays, why are you lb Tenacious in the matter of Defenfive Arms? I told him I. 
 had for olefin that, not only tha Example of '■ Abraham the Father of the Faithful, 
 but which was yet more two Precepts by my Bltwsi Lord and Matter Jefus 
 Chritt, the 'one that, Sell your Coat and buy a Sword, the other that, when- you 
 Are Perfecute out of one City Fly to another, and bellies all thefe, the Law of 
 Nature, the Law of Nations Generaly and Particularity, our own and thePraftice 
 of allour Reformed Churches both'at Hems and Abroad : All thefehe pad, and 
 Touches at that, Sell your Coat and buy a Sword, fo foon as he Mentioned this* 
 ■ { rmi him to beware of the Rock, Sir William Patsrfon^ in calling the Swor£ 
 
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 there the Sword of the Spirit, whereby he did no Left than upon the matter 
 Charge#iy BlefTed Lord and Matter^ with Commanding Sim.vi (of this above ) 
 } told him my Anfwer to Sir William was, what £ Were thefe two Swords the 
 Diicipks produced,two Swords of the Spirit ? To which I got no Anfwer, and all 
 -that Sir John offered here for my Satisfaction, was Mr, Dick do yoa think thefe 
 two Swords were enough for all the Difciples/ 
 
 To which I Anfwered, for the time they were, and the CommiiTion was not 
 concerned in what Swords were there or not, but was genera!/, and a Warrand 
 toallChriftains tomakeufe ofthe fame, in their own innocent felf Defence* to 
 the Worlds end. Then fayes Mr. JohnVafs, Mr Dick you know the word Buy 
 is varioufly taken in Scripture, fometimes Figuratively as io that of IfaU Buy 
 Wine and MUk^ &c. I told him, I knew that, but durfl he or any elle fay, it 
 wns taken Co in the place under Debate . ? Adding, could there be any thing more 
 cigar or lefs Figurative then Sell your Coat, and as if he had faid with the price 
 thereof Buy a Sword, Infinuating that after hisDeparture they fhould have more 
 aeed of Swords then Cloaths. Mr. frafi was offering fomewhat elfe, which I 
 hindered by Charging him to beware of doing Violence to the Spirit ofGOQ, 
 which when I was faying, I gave- a Moderate chop upon the Table j For which 
 I could not pafs without Andrew Toungs Check, that I was of a too fiery Spjrit. 
 To which I Anfwered, I knew I had a Natural Infirmity in that, but that the 
 Lord had helped me in fome Meafure to ftrive againft it,gave me no fmall Satis- 
 faction : I told them alfo, ihtCt Swords our BlefTed Lord gave Commiflion to Buy 
 were either for offence, Defence, or both ( of which above ) to this I got no 
 Anfwer ' Only I Remember Sir John Laudsr told me fomewhat of Pajfive Ob- 
 edience, anjpnftanced Tertullian anent it, whatit : was 1 Totally Difremember. 
 But what ever it were, I muft tell Sir John once for all, that fufferin'gfimply. 
 comes under no Divine Precept, and whatever he have elfe for it, I matter the 
 lefc, fincel have my BlefTed Matters Precept for A&ive Repfiance, Innocent felf 
 Defence, this Serves me, and if he tell me I ought rather to fuffer than Sin, I 
 fhall readily grant it, and yet in that give no Pajfivs Obedience^ but fuffer forDif- 
 obedience. But of this enough confidering what is upon this head, contained in- 
 the abovementioned Authors, particularly Jus Populi, 
 
 Now thereafter, That modeft and moderate Gentleman, I fuppofe his Name 
 be Sir John Afaitland, tokhiie very meekb/, he was very glad I had been inter- 
 rupted in oppofing my felf to the Laws ofthe Land in which I was a Subject, lead 
 my cafe fhould have been worfe. I Anfwered him with as much meeknefs as 
 my hot fpurred Nature was capablaof, I knew no Laws I had oppofed, which 
 were not Diametrically oppofrte to the exprefs Texts of Scripture, which I 
 judged neither I, nor any other Chriftian was obliged to own for Laws^ and 
 that I had been hindered for to Defend my felf from the Word of GOD, and had 
 .gotten it denyed meby the Juftice Clerk, that the fame was the Supream Law, ' 
 1 judged a very great Injuftice, forwhich they were all to Anfwer to GOD, 
 with whom 1 knew that was ftandingxm Record. The Gentlemen faid noth 
 
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 but Sir Jj-.n Lauder would have refufed this, but I told him, .chaping yet more 
 eagerly u n r he Table, What Sir? Ye refufe me, that for which 1 have no 
 fewer tha \ ive Hundred Witneffes, and which is yet more, I am fure it ftands 
 Regiftrate in Heaven. Novf 
 
Koto to return where we left, to the Landlords in Landward and Towns to 
 >Le.b Convoyers to Pri Tons and Scaffolds and others we have da/Ted vfith you 
 What are yourefolved to do in- that great and terrible Day of our Lord ? Think 
 »ot to fhelter under thefe Laws, for the very Inaftors themfelves as you have 
 heard, /hall tie as far to feek as to (belter as you, nor ever -dream, that your 
 Lands and Houfes for preservation whereof you have finned -againft my /reat 
 Mafter, (hall hear you when ye cry upon them, to hide you, *mayye notex- 
 peafncha.-. Aniwer from them as this? Do you not remember how lone not 
 only we but the whole Creation groaned under the^burden of your Sirrs?A s 
 you Anfwered our Groans, then fo (hail we Anfweryou new. Confider then 
 Friends in time, where you will fnelter, and what Will you do in that day 
 
 But now to come yet nearer you all in Bulk, let us make yet another Eflay 
 for though I can not fay with Paul, that Iwonld be content to be AccurfUfor ml 
 ■ Brethren, nor yet with Mofes, Let my Name be Bloted out of the Book of Lif* J - 
 Yet I allure you my heart Yearns for my Acceptation of this my Fecklefs en? 
 deavour, and for a Bleffingfrom my GOD to-it,-it may be it has "been in Merc* 
 to not a few, that GOD has put thefe things into my heart, and I may fay has haS 
 the Patience by. his Spirit, to" Dictate thefe things to me, and if any- of you rean 
 Profite thereby •, Iobteft you to return the whole Praife to my BlefTed Lord and 
 Mafter. Then to you all incumulo, let me again propofe this Queft ion wiat 
 are you Refolvedupon ? Are you yet undetermined / Will ye not fol!mv™x. 
 
 ^And do you not for.aljjthatis fard in the Word of God, nor that you 4ra ve heard 
 "of others, nor from what you have heard from me your Poor Friend, believe that 
 there is a God, that, there is a Hell, that there is a Heaven, that there is a day of 
 Judgement coming? I would fain hope itis not fo with you, for in this vpu 
 fhould.be worfe as to your cafe and condition, nor are tht very Devils them- 
 fcives, for they believe all thefe things and Trimble. And yet indeed it would 
 be matter of comfort to us to know, that fome of you were come this length 
 though we hope better things of others, Believe, Believe Dear Friends what we 
 are telling you from that Unerring Word t)f GOD^ our Supream Law, leaft 
 you be forced Untunoufly fo to do, which yet will be fp much the fadder unto 
 y u,if you Reject this my Friendly Advice. 
 
 I fay a^ain unto you all, What refolve you to do in that Great and Terrible 
 Day of the LORD? When Our 'BlerTed Lord Jefus Chrift the Lambof 
 GOD, for Meeknefs and Pleafantnefs to His People, but to all who fhaU be 
 foundEnemiesin that Day, The Lyon of the Tribe of Judah, and a very Ter- 
 rible Lyon fhalrhe be. What are you refolved to do ? Can it be pofiible, that 
 Men who were created reafonable Creatures can have fallen upon fo Defperate 
 a Cure as this, I mean as to have Unanimoufty Refolved ( upon the firft hearing 
 of the Trumpet that day J to Loup quick into Hell, and there to hide themfelves^ 
 Sure if this be the thing intended. 'it (hall not only be a v Defperately, Mad 
 but inefFeclualRdoiution alfo. What? Do you not know that thence alio the 
 impotent Arm oi Jehovah Shall eafriy bring you out? Dream not I fay, Dream 
 
 not 
 
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 • of any cT:<pe, for the. Interrogation here what , fhall you do,. imp' : 
 / ftrong Negation of all pofiible means of Shunning that great Appearance? 
 where will you, wiU not every individual one of you appear before that-Lyon, 
 however averfe you may be frtfm it ? and I dare not but tell you, that to fo&k 
 uponhis ( to you ) terrible Countenance fhall be mare afflidihg, more torment- 
 ing, more aftoniihing, more 5ou! and Cbrifcience wounding thin a thoufmd 
 Years .Torment inHeil/* this I can affure you of, and this you fhaTl 
 fhun by no means imaginable : Jo if yo : wed ip refute my frier; J y Ex- 
 
 hortation and Advice hmuft here warn you before him to make ready, to 
 anfwer for all you-have done in .the Flefh, and though tofbme of you the fight- 
 ing of th : s my Advice may be the laft \ Yet it fhall not ' be the leaft of rhe 
 Challenges you in'nll jneet with this day. Now I hope I have prevailed with 
 
 - the mo!! part, if not all ofycu to Believe, that before this Lyon you tfcVfl come 
 irnd look him in the Face alfo, and before him anfwer for what you have done in 
 ' ilefh, and having told you who is tp be your Judge, for your further fit- 
 ting for that Rancounter I -fhall alfo tell you by wint.Law yotrare to be In 
 ea, even by the written Word of GGD, 'where;;i is contained our B' 
 LORD's revealed -Will, that feif fame Law that you refufe to berfupream, and' 
 7, : hen my Companion in Tribulation and fellow. Sufferer for Chwft ] 
 Qitfrge La^fty Called it -the Afts of Parliament of Heaven pertinently enough, 
 yet fame of your Number in rzg-z againft our great Lawmaker Difd iinfull/ 
 
 1 did Lau^h, I fay by this felf fa die Law are you. all and every one of you to bo 
 Judged : And however you may be fo Diabolically bold,as to Contemn it now, 
 y Qiifhall not then dare to whifper in the lea* ft agairrft it. Now told 
 
 ) is to be Judges, and what \he Law by which you are to be j t 
 you incline to know who are to he. Witneffes, we tell you even your_ own- 
 Consciences with that great Book of Remembrance, the comparing of which 
 together fhall be as furnci-mt as Millions of Witneffes. Then for your Affifc 
 know youare to have the whole Generation of the. Righteous, arrd amongft the 
 reft, even thefe whom vou in your rage againft the A 1 ivc flain 
 
 Ttftimony of our biefTedLord and'M -fter Chrift Jefus, whom you have not 
 only Renounced your felves ( as Head of his Church ) but alfo are raging in 
 madnefs againft all fuch as will not with you run into the fame excefs ot i < 
 The Dyet of your Compearance we have told you before. 
 
 • And now again I Obteft and Charge you, ai ever 
 
 living GOD, that ycu either grant me my former Fr 
 Chriftian Exhortation, or otherwife maKeyru ready to ftanJ Naked . 
 before this our ever 6lefl"e3 Judge, and there to be in II 
 for all you have done in the Fleih in General, fo to this our Particuhr 
 following, to which we would very 'Gladly know what vou iha!( be 
 Anfwer. "Now again I Charge you all from the Higher! . 
 you (Staging your felves in t.ieSig 1: of our Clefielf 1 1 
 
 Experience you fhall find in thatDay to be to you a 1 
 ready to Anfwer thefe following' Queries, wherein l^ec -u '■■. 
 tru !y concerned, though there be amongft you as to 
 Di.lerence, we are to Pofe you all in Cumuh, bei 
 
 ' *E , Strength 
 
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 Strength toTouch more ParticuUrly,atthePerfons more Particularly concerned 
 in the°feveralQueftinns. And flrft, what will you Anfwer far that Unparaletfcd 
 Aft. ot Rebellion againft Jehovah ? I mean your Overturning the v note Worfc 
 Df Reformation, that fo very Glorious Work, and fo Cone; • > n- 
 
 Revealed will of GOD, asthat Excercifed and Pra&ifed byour ffie&J I ORD 
 himfelf, an:J his Holy Apoitles, and all the feveral Churches their Sua il >-s 
 far noLct few Hundreds of Years, after them, as isclear from the Word of GO D 
 and the Writings cfour Divines founded thereon, to which till this Hour, we 
 have never feen nor Heard of any thing lookinglikea Satisfactory Anfwer •, and 
 :hisover the Belly oia moft Solemn. Covenant, to the Obfervance whereof every 
 Individual Soul of you Aandiyet firmly Obliged ( and I am lure you muft give 
 ne leave to fay do, when youconfider you Refuled mean Anfwer ro the Que ft l- 
 )n, by what Autliority.arethefe Covenants Infringed or Loofed? ) And (halt 
 ;>e while Sun and Moon Endures: And not only fo but in the Room hereof, 
 Introducing that Abominable and GOD Difpleafing Prelacy, a Weed which our 
 Biefied LORD never Planted, yea which he was at no fmall Pains, while in time 
 to Guard his Difciples againft, in his feveral Exhortations to Study Humility and 
 forbear Lording over their Brethren, and over the LORD's Inheritance, and 
 feveral others to this Purpofe, as alio his brisk Checks for any think of this 
 Nature that offered to let up tis head in his BlefTed time, with his own BlefTed 
 Example, in Girding himfelf with a Towel and Warning his Difciples Feet, in 
 which, you -are yot the more Inexcusable, that by the fame Covenant, Jiig 
 Abominable Weed is forever thrown over the Hedges of the true Churches of 
 Brit aln and /^ -eland \ I mean thefe Presbyterian \ I fay what will you Aniwer for 
 t-hefe things, when before the Son ofGOD that Day? And further what will 
 you yet Anfwer, for not -enly Praelifing fo your felves, but alfo by Armed 
 Force, Compelling the Reft of the Nations to Concur with you in this fo 
 Abominable Combination and Rebejlion again ft Jehovah? ( of wich above j 
 
 that it is ExprefiV Contrary to hisRevealed will ■ idly. That it is the fame upon 
 the matter with that Proponed by the jews themfelves, to his ever BlefTed felf 
 in faying the owners cf our Elefied LORD and Mafter, were no Friends to 
 C^[ar > or does our King think to Aniwer he was Counfelled thereto will do his 
 turn ? Nofure he can not be {o Mad. *And what can theie his Counfellors fay .* 
 Sure nothing-, this I am the rather to Believe, that I find none cf them 
 have any thing to Anfwer here and Sure much Lets there. 
 
 My fecond Quefijon is, what will you anfwer to our ever bk (Ted Lord and 
 Matter your Ju'd^e, when that Queftior? is proposed to thz Kin^, how came 
 it Sir that jou were fo infolently bold and daring, as to Strive with me fcr^ 
 State ? And though my ever bleifed Father bequeathed that upon me as one of 
 my Royal Prerogatives to be King and Head of all my Churches, which as I 
 was to lead and guide by my Spirit in their invifible Capacity, fo by nvy Spirit 
 ia my Servants C according to my Conamiflion to them ) in their vifible Cap- 
 city, for which uwfe a\y Servants were to iiie only ; to anfweiy. and I 
 
 having 
 
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 having for their Setter encouragement and more drftiirft miflugement of thefe 
 their ajfkirs, left it on Record that tie Spirits of the Prophets were fulreft to 
 the Prophets fc that my Churches in themlelyes in the feveral Nations were 
 Judicatories totally feparate in their Nature, and diftinft from the Civil, they 
 beio* fpirit&al, and for which they as to their behaviour were only anfwerable 
 to me as Kings and other Judges were for their carriage in Civil, ( this you 
 have fully made out in the abovementioned Authors, and others our Divines as 
 you may fee in their Treaties ) what wilt our King have to anfwer for him- 
 felf here f I am fare he wiil ftand Mute, as will all thefe who have Combined 
 With him in this their Tage againftthe-Almighty, in not only fetting him upon 
 our bleffed Lords Chair { over Mala -part ) but alfo cleclairing this a Privilege 
 Inherent to the Crov/n. 
 
 My pbiri quelticn (hall be next? What will One and all of you anfwer for 
 Impofingin* fuch a violent manner that horrid and Monftrous Oath, the Teft 
 upon theSubjefts of this Nation, anenf which by and attour the Nonfenfe and 
 eontradiftions I have Hinted before, you may frorn the Pen o? a more Solid 
 Tudiciousand Reverend Author, learn yet more of the Abominations thereof, 
 (which if it be not come to yoar Hands alrtaiy, I hope yet miy ?6me fhortly in 
 a fmill Trea'tife againfttheHearing of thefeSoul Murdering Curats )I.fay, what 
 will 'you anfwer.*o yoar Judge in that day for this? can it be poffible that • 
 thefe Monftrous Curats with the reft of their curfed Clergy can think to fh-1- 
 ter in that Mock Qualification they got added, that the Oath to them is Re- 
 ft rifted to the Kin^S power in externals? Now can th^(k infrabrutal wretches 
 think that a Qualification made pofterior to, and not contained in the Body of 
 the Oatlvf in which they Swear exprefly to take the Oath in its true genuine 
 Meaning, without equivocation or mental refervation ) can do their turn here *, 
 and though it were contained in their Oath, the Claufe being general ? And 
 who knows not that fians lata in generalibus, which no Man of Confcier.ee 
 durft ever Venture upon in the Matter of an Oath ? And fure I am the fen f e of 
 this his Majefty/s power in externals could be no Unknown thing to them who 
 know that the Practice of the LawMakersis thebeftCommentare upon the gene* 
 ral^Claufes in their Laws, they can not but know that his Mjjefty,hisCounciI, 
 and* other Civil Judicatories meddle in the Examination of Minifters, Doctrine, 
 out putting and in putting of Minifters and feveral others, which time and 
 the Nature of this my Teftimony will not allow me to enumerate : And 
 Prima in/lamia \ 1 am fure none who are not willfully Blind, wH! caii 
 Externals anent which I recommend the Reader the abovementioned Authors, 
 I fay again what '(ball you all anfwer to thefe things ? 
 
 My Fourth Queftion is, what will you Anfwer that Day to your Judge, for 
 
 whfh you fhall know that not only they be none ofGOTs Appointing^ but: 
 againft that Peoples Joyning with whom the Covenants n ade in theie- 
 Nations with the Almighty (lands yet Binding, by which the People of GOD 
 there are Bound, not only not to Joine with them but to Endeavour in their 
 
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 feveral Capacities and Stations, to'ufe their Yon imofl Endeavour ^>r their 
 Extirpation, and if to all this you add thi's^onfi deration, that h "nounc*- 
 
 ed Chrift for their head, they kike fet up his ProfeftlM Avowed Enemy ( by 
 them others of their : Kidney Indicate to be fo- ] in his.Robiiv, may ye not 
 conceive, that befide the former Bus in the Lords-Peoples wav^ whereby they 
 are Deterred from this Practice, this may have no fmall I irluT.r^" that a Ten- 
 der HeartcdChriftian may be under Rich an Jmprfefllqri, natto Join with 
 fuch under theNotionof ChriftjansaY have Renounced Chrift for their head, 
 rnav' InvolVe them in that Faultcalled by Lopjcimi Rep f<gnavti?ii;i Adjecbo, and 
 by u c . St a s Men Downright Mori fence, anda'Flet Contradiction, and indeed 
 t^m^a Chi iftian Difclaiming Chrift: for his head is Flat Nonfenfe-, Now I fay 
 what will you Anfwer for that fo Horrid Practiced 1 hope if you will be at Pains 
 to Read what has been \ v riten by feverals upon this head, you will 'not only 
 find the Refufers in this Juftifiablej but that your Prefting the fame with fo 
 much VigoSr, is of a Ptfioe with the Reft ^f^bar¥iglitiftgs-agairift ojjt 
 Bictfed LGL 
 
 My Fifch Queftion is, what do you one and all of you Refolvf to Anfwer, 
 
 when our Buffed LORD and Matter your Judge fball make Inquifition for 
 
 all the jnnocenc Blood has been by you Shed, whither in Fields or upon Scaffolds, 
 
 or by drowning or whatfomever manner of way? And to begin with theEminent- 
 
 )y Worthy Nobleman the Late Marquis of Argyle >a gain ft whom, though your 
 
 Invention Raked Hell for^a CioVk to cover it ^ yet to all Unbyafled Spectators, it 
 
 is more then Evident, ytha't your great, if not only Quarrel was, his Befreind- 
 
 mg theCaufe-'of Chrift, and Precious Eminently worthy and Reverend Mr. 
 
 Jahtes Guthrie r Whom in your Rage againft: the Almighty you Murdered for 
 
 no othfr Cuuie, but his A fiertir.g Chrift to be head over the Church, in Refufing 
 
 to Anfwer any of your Courts which vyere not of -h* s and our Mafters Appoint- 
 
 •-, in Matters Sprltuai and Ecclefiaftkal Prima Inftantiay' and all the 
 
 Reft hoin thefe to mine, which you are as really called to Charge your felves 
 
 with, asifyou hi i been Permitted to put in E<cecutiori,that Abominable Unjuft 
 
 Sentence, ofyouvs PronoaoCfcd againft a Chriftian, offering to Juftify all his 
 
 triples and Pr; ilifes from the Word of GOD, and Requiring no more aft 
 
 your hands forthat End, but thatye would grant him -the Almighty to be 
 
 the Supream judge and his Word the Supream Law, which both were Re- 
 
 fu\cd in that the Latter was not Granted, and yd both by my Bisffii Lord and 
 
 Matter in nay Efcape proves 
 
 The Brft in tl he Great ores in the EarthHad Decreed my Death 
 
 upon the z6 of Sept; 16.3, tl now fee my bleffld Maft^r having Decreed the coa- 
 
 tiary has proven himfelf Supream. The latter in this, that though' the fame was 
 
 Enacted in a Liw by you,' yet by his- Word which is yea: the Supream Law, wy 
 
 GOD having moved me to caft mine Eye upon- th.it -Promife, He that lofetb his 
 
 Life for rnx Jake jhJl five it, and up on the-back- cf, this on that W' r ord in the 
 
 us, According to rliy R'.gbtcoufijefs do ihou deliver me. I fay my bluffed 
 
 I helping \\\t to caft mi ie Eye, and not a little to Confide in the Promife, 
 
 ( though I mutt confers by mv too eager gripping thereto at firft,and in Co doing 
 
 litliog ray hle.Ted Lord-) IJBrei ill) felt not. a Tittle DifquieiLiyct 1 :foy my 
 
 'Lord 
 
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 Lord according to rtfs his Word, having fet me at Liberty though you iia3 
 Enabled the contrary has ad homlwm (ufrlciently proven my fecond Principle 
 dfo. I lay are you at a Point what to anfwer, when all this Blood comes tc 
 .be inquired into ? Know you not that the Blood of Saints is precious in the 
 Lord's fig 'it ? Or willye yet with Thai aoh harden your hearts, poiiibly under 
 this confide ration, that you live Remote from the Red-Sea ? Butknow you not 
 that our Omnipotent Matter can for you make a Sea 'of .your own* Blood, if it be 
 Red enough for you to Drown in / And who knows but fucha thing may come 
 to' pais \ Efpecially confidering,' that it is an ordinary thing with the Lord in 
 p'ufiifhing either F.riendsor Enemies to doit fo as their fm may be Read in 
 their Judgement, and I am i'ndeed the rather inclined to think it fhall be fo, 
 when I remember the laying of that Worthy ■ Man cfGOD, I mean Mr. 
 Semple t \aite Minifter of tbtifdirn in Galloway C w 7 ho fell under no fmall Ecliofe 
 in his Latter Days through hrs clofing with that fatal! Indulgence, fatall inde'ed 
 to the poor Chuiches in Britain and Ireland ) who in his better days had this 
 Exprtflion, As th^ Lord lives, for every Drop of the Saints "Blood has been or >\ 
 fhall be fhed by thefe his Cruel Enemies ( fpeaking of the Malignant, Prelati- 
 cal, Papifticaland Atheiftical Party in thefe Kingdoms) there fhall TunsTuns 
 Tuns of theirs fall to the Ground, and I know few of this Great Seer Threat- 
 nifigs have fallen to the Ground •, What Dream you I fay you fhall have to An- 
 fvver in that Day? Da-re ye whilper thefe things were done conform to your * 
 Laws ( which upon the Matter was all I got anfwefed to me (landing at your 
 Bar hereupon Earth, for which 1 have no -fewer- than 500 'WitnefTes, an$ 
 upon, which' I have an Inflrument (landing Recorded in Heaven ) do yoii 
 think you will dare to Mutter this then ? Sure \i you knew what you were 
 faying you would never do it "here nor there, for it is no lefs upon the Matter 
 
 i\ 
 
 contrary, and your Law fkotrfd have Ceded to mine, dare you think you 
 (hall contradict this there, as you have-indeed done here, upon Earth ? I know 
 you dare nor. confider then what you 'will anfwer, for I can affure you it is of 
 your Concern. 
 
 May Sixth Queflion fhall be, what think you to An fwer for your Mode 
 
 did, and no wonder fince they are or. one Father^ 1 mean the Devil, .one Mo- 
 ther the Pope of Rome i one'Nurfethe Jefuitieal Papifts who having brought 
 up thefe Brats till they are able to walk alone, fend* them- over hereto (heir 
 Friends in Britain and Ireland, and what day is pitched upon here for bring- 
 ing them forth to public!; View ? Even the Lords day, in which' thefe you 11 5 
 Monflers mull get on all their Gay Cloathes, and of them muft all the Churches 
 in the Nations fpend that day in fpeaking ( though to the mocking of GOD 
 with abominable Lies yet J to the admiration of this Monftrous Birth •, And- 
 en till is done there muft be Bonefires, Ringing of Belis 3 and fireir.. 
 
 Caaaons 
 
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 Can now tnd what not, that this Monftrcus Generation .r. c 
 ing of and fighting againft Jehovah ! O iieiven fbaie, r art 1 tremble, an 
 Hem beaftonifhed at fuch Hellifh madding aaainft oui r, and 
 
 becaufe contraviajuxta fe ' pofita clarittt clucefcunt, I wo :o t^klB 
 
 a glance of the indultrie of that Limb of Antichrift the Duke % of.#,r/fc in hin- 
 dering the procedure of the Parliament of.Er?gland y in theii ad Legall 
 procedure, in inquiring into that Hell-hatched Popifh Plot, wJ n no fmall 
 meafure now advanced by this laft mock one of yours y And 1 am fure none 
 who are not altogether Strangers to the Conftitutions of Lt^ ill refufe 
 that Treafon o; the Nature that a Popifh Plot is really, and this n^ck Plot of 
 theirs as to its pretended Nature, is pretended to be ought to come under 
 Tryal by his Majefty and the two Houfes of Parliament, ?s only competent 
 Judges thereto,but there is no remedy for open and irrefiftible violence but pati- 
 ence I fay,what ? are you at a Point,Hvhat to Anfwer for thefe things? I fear not, 
 and I hope none who knows that I am a Presbyterian, and Confequently whom 
 I am concerned to Defend here, I mean all fuch as are either indeed Presbyteri- 
 ans, orlongingf^r the time when the Nation fhall beUniverfaly fuch ( which 
 the LORD haften and Pardon, any who have been any way Inftrumental in 
 kindering, when the matter was brought to a very hopefulLpafs ) will think I 
 have been out of tke Road, in medling in matters, wherein the Glory of GOD 
 1 is fo much concerned, for to Charge any fuch Plottsupon fuch as a re indeed of 
 our Principles, I dare Aver-r to be not only a wrong for us, but of our Blefled 
 LORD alfo in and though us. Now I Pray you confider what you (hall 
 Anfwer for thefe things. 
 
 My Seventh Queftion is, what you think to Anfwer, who have Refufed our 
 BletTed LORD and his People, a Spot of your Ground to meet together upon, 
 who have Refufed his People a Nights Lodging, who have Concurred in 
 Dragging his People to Scaffolds and Prifons, and others whom we have 
 ClafTed together with you above, when you fhall meet that Day with your 
 Particular Charges f Is it not ofyour concern to confider this, efpecialy the 
 rather that fuch of you as have Sworn the Teft, have as I Remember in the 15. 
 Article of the Confeflion of Faith, you tiave Sworn, to therein Declared it to 
 be a Good Work, toP^eleive the Oppreft Defend and Patronize the Harmlefs, 
 I fay* fo much the rather that your preient pra&ice and that your Oath Games 
 together,are you not concerned to know what you will Anfwer in that DayMnd 
 indeed for my part, I can conceive no Anfwer you or any of you can have 
 to thefe or any of thefe things, therefore I yetObteft -you to take my Freindiy 
 Warning. Now Dare I Flattter my felffo fir as to think that I have got any 
 of you that Length as to Speir, what fhall we do ? ( And Oh that I were fo ) 
 however I fhall out of Tendernefs to the Glory of GOD, the Good ofyour 
 Souls, and the well being of thefe Nations, and the well of your Pofteriry 
 Adventure in the Strength of my Bleffed LORD, to Advifeyou as follows. 
 
 And firft Great Sir, be Iatreated to lay afide your Enmity at my Great Lord 
 and Mafter, and you under him to whom together with his Mijefty, I Addrefs 
 my {elf:, Be intreated, and I obteft you in the Name of GOD {o to do, and to 
 concur with nae in Advifing hisMajefty thus with me, and as that in Teilimony 
 
 of 
 
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 of your doing fo : Hft M : j ;(ry with your Advice and Confent, would call a free 
 Parliament! • I > il Dominions, wiricH m.ty meet without either Preiimit- 
 
 a ion? or Reftiict ions, ifl which let the firfc Act beth. Appointment of a Fa It, to 
 bekesped for many d^y$, by all the Faitttfiill Minifies Living in thefe Kingdoms, 
 Who have been lb much Discountenanced, to the Difh onour of GOO thefe 22 or . 
 23 Ye«rs, till cne Performance of w r.D h ei'ded. Let this your Parliament be 
 Adjourn^, then let your r\c%: Work be to E iVpty ? all the Prifons in the three 
 Kingdoms, of alltheHoneft Chriitiansyou have in Prifbn there, for no' other 
 reafon, then th.n they<H-efjch. And iath^ next place in their Room, let thefe 
 prifons be filled with all that have given his Majefty unfaithful! Council fmcehis 
 Re ft juration as formerly, beginning with his Brother the Duke of York, and [o 
 from him, toall the reft in order, forget not the Prelates, and fjchohheir Un- 
 derlings, ashavebeen too too Active, in driving on thefe Defections, and that 
 Damnable j4pojiacy r and as to their Treafonable Practices, let them all be brought 
 and Arraigned be tore thefe Parliaments \ Then let there be an Act Emitted for 
 the Fresbyferian Minifters in the fcveral Nations, to meet in a General AfTembly, 
 for confidering, what may be the mofcerTectuall courfe, for fettling the Churches 
 in thefe Nations, and for Removing thele Abominations and Abufes, that have 
 been introduced through- want of the Hedge ( and over the Belly of Covenants, 
 Sworn to the Almighty, ftanding ftil! in Vigour^ to the great Difhonour of 
 GOD, and Utter Contufion of thefe Nations, both as to Church and State. If I 
 det but thefe granted, I hope it mould be a very good beginning, and bad Coun- 
 cils, being once removed, and better brought in their Room, with Dependanceon 
 the Almighty for a BleiTing, I doubtnot would eafe me of the Travell of further 
 Counciling, for which I am fenfible of my own infufficiency, and yQt[ think this 
 I have given none of the word, andican allure one, and all ofycu in following 
 the fame, you fhail not only do GOD good Service but your felvesalfo, and thefe 
 Nations, and your Pofterity.: It's like fome may think my advice here is the lefs 
 folid, thatl advilefome to act againft themfelves, and fome near Relations to aft' 
 againft on another;, But I hope iuch fhall eafily alter their opinion, when they 
 confider, that lometimes it is better for the Body to have fome of the Members 
 cut off, then to have all indangered together*, And though amongft Naturalilts 
 for perfons to act feemingly, contrary to themfelves, may not found fb well, yet 
 I hope amongft Divines it may, who know it is no Difparragement to the belt of 
 Mortalls to come in time to our BlefTed LORD with the Rope about their Neck 
 and acknowledge their Guilt, Submitting themfelves to his holy Majefty for 
 what of Puniihment he fhall fee fit to inflict. And as I advife his Majefty to do 
 this in time, as the beft Council I can give him, fo do I advife all under him tod<* 
 thefame*, And not only fo, but as a Teftimony of their Stupendous Loyajtv 
 they Crack fo much of to oar King, that they would now come and give a proof 
 thereof, in coming to his Majefty and this free Parliament, to offer themfelves to 
 Tryall. Sure J am, if they be confiftent with their principals, they are bound in 
 Duty to do this-, and I know nothing they can object to the contrary, that will 
 not abundantly more ferve our turn, in our prefent cafe, and com? there whea 
 they like, 1 am confident they (ball never find Judges nor Advocats, under fuch* 
 a Conftitution, as to grounds and reafons for their Procedure, as we have found 
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 I make no doubt but that they mail get it made cat to their own conviction ' 
 .that they have one and all of them been not only mod HorriJ Tnirorsand 
 ,Rtbe!!s againft the Majefty ofHeav.-n, but even againft our own King alfo 
 . and that thefe have been likewife guilty not only of all the Blood ftied fince his 
 iMajefties Reftauration,.but alfo fince that of righteous Abel even to this-Hour 
 T mean here the Bloodfhed of theRightepus.Now having in fome meafure remov- 
 ed what might.be objected againft my Advice I fhall leave youtoconfider,whether 
 you will embrace it or not, and I dare .here confidently averr there was no more 
 ..intended by the Presbyterians in Scotland in thefe two rifings at Pcmland and 
 . Both-well than this, or fomething of this Nature, (our doing the fame in Arms 
 being conftrained from thatMonftrous Act, Difcharging any fuch Addrefs un- 
 der the pain of Treaion ) and though I have not much hopes to prevail with 
 you, yet I doubt-not but herein I have been in my duty, and who knows but 
 in part even for this end my GOD haslet me at Liberty to telly v ou, what you 
 would not Suffer me to Speak w,hen> (landing at the Bar before you ? The 
 t bearing and Embracing of this my Advife, 1 am fure mould be f® far from 
 prejudging any of you, that I doubt not but the Embracers ( if any fuch fhall 
 <be) fhall have our GOD toBlefs for it, and for the Refufers that fhall yet ftiH 
 with Pharoh harden their Necks in Rebellion againft my Bleffed LORD and 
 ■ M after, I can yulure them from our Unerring Law, the Word of GOD that 
 they fhall not have Ground to Crack of it, but that thereby their Judgement 
 fhall not only be more certainly Entailed upon them and their pofterity, but 
 alfo ( I doubt not ) even the former alfo, for indeed I think our Bleffed LORD 
 is faying nothing lefs by thefe Difpenfations then this, what will not thefe 
 , Stupendous Rebles come and hear Honeft Minifters, who are ready and willing 
 to give them Warning, that their Mouthy may be for ever Stopped, he'll fend 
 • them a Warning another way, which if they will Refufe then have at them 
 fothen I come to my la ft Task with you the Enemies of our GOD and cur's 
 .upon his Account, and it is to take Inftruments upon all my Bleffed Mafter has 
 in and bynne the FectlefTeft of his Servants, been doing with you in all . my 
 .Tryalsas follows. 
 
 Moft Holy and In rmitly Glorious GOD, the Fatherof my Bleffed Lord Jefus 
 Chrift,and my Father in and throw Kim, I e,arniftly beg of thee, for thy great 
 Names Sake, for thy Glorys Sake, for the So N n of thy Loves Sake, and for the love 
 thou bears to thy poor people in thefe Nations, that what thou has in thy infinite 
 •Wifdome been doing in by and throw .me, to and with thefe thine Enemies, be 
 Jceept written in large Characters, in the Book of Rememberance, till the great 
 .Day of the Lord for a Teftimony, .and Witnefs againft all fuch of them, as fhaJl 
 Cortfemptoufly refufe what I thy poor fervant has been helped of thee with an 
 £ye to thy Glory, tlje good of thy people, the Conviction of thefe thine Enemies, 
 .and even the good of the Souls of fuch of them, as fhall give ear To what from thy 
 .word, I have in thy 'firength offered. ■ 
 
 And now gain,' to you (tiff Necked Rebeles, againft my ever BlefTed Lord and 
 ^-lafter, m j' 1 in theftrength of my God, intimate what you are to expect for 
 your fmall Sentencein the Great Day ( if you continue in this your Rebellion ) 
 even this which' you will find written in "the 25 Chapter of Matthew, 41 Yerfe, 
 
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 1 lay depart fhmffte ys Curbed into everlasting Fire prepared fo' the' Levi! and 
 and' his Angels? and of the Reafons there ' and elfewhere in the Lords Word 
 given for this yourSentcn.ce| you have ground to expert your carriage to the 
 reft of the Lordi People and me amongft them, frail not be the kaft articling 
 and aftonifhingtoyou. ^ 
 
 Now having ended with our blefTed LordsEnemies I come to mv la ft Task in 
 this my Tcitimony, which is to fpeajk a fhort word by way. of Advice .and Ex- 
 hortation to all my precious Friends, und^r which Compelhtion I comprehend 
 all that love our Lord Jefus Chnft and wait for his coming, all that have given 
 -themfelves to him in a Covenant never to be forgotten, all that are keeping up 
 the Fight a gain ft their Corruptions, and Stfugiing in theStrength of our Lord 
 againft a Body of Death, and in fhort all that are ftneerely Arting Heaven- 
 ward, whither (uch as are. farder or fhorterv/ay advanced in their Journey, 
 and to* thefe and all luch cf whatfomever Nation, Countrey, Tongue or Lan- 
 guage they be, whither at Home or Abroad, of'whatfomever perlwaiion con- 
 fident with the Foundations of Religion : And particularly to ail under the 
 Crofs, whither Abroad in Hungary, France, Germany, or any other elfewhere,, 
 who are in the Furnace, or at Home in the fe three Kingdoms, and to you all 
 and every one v^ho in the Strength of our blefTed Lord fhall be helped to run 
 'that Race with patience, and finifli your Chrittian Courfe with Joy. I hope I 
 need not ufe Arguments to prove, that the day of the^ Lord which we have 
 been fpeaking cf, above which to the Wicked and to the Enemies of our bief- 
 fed Lord fhall be io terrible* fhall be to you the beginning of days, or rather the 
 •beginning of a day whfth is never to have an end, and that this day may be the 
 •more Joyful to one and all of us, I fhall obteft vou all to join with me in the 
 purfuance of thefe few Chriftian Exhortations following. 
 
 And firft in general, let there be a cordial endeavour in the Strength of our 
 'blefTed Mafter ( the more this be im ployed the better lpeed fhall we come J as to 
 ftrive againft every Sin without exception, fo to dofe with every Commanded 
 ; Duty with delight, the more Univerf«l we be in either the more fincere in our 
 Refolutions this way, the more dependant upon Chrift Jefus we go on in this 
 Courfe, and the more felf denial and denial to all other Airths we be blefTed of 
 the \S>vd with, the better fpeed fureiy fhall we come. 
 
 But fecondly and more particularly., let us all Unanimoufly Concurr in the 
 endeavour after the cordial arid fincere performance of thefe particular Duties 
 following. -And firft I would offer for youcExerrife that indifpenfible neceffary 
 Duty of Repentance, in exercifing whereof I ihall offer thefe lewChriftian Ad- 
 vices, Firft, Let us Digg deep in this Matter, and never. reft till we come to 
 - the Root, I mean Original Sin, and after we have Dwelt by Medication upon 
 • the fadnefs thereof, let us in the next place take a View. of-all our affuil Tranf 1 
 ©reffions flowing therefrom, of our Sins as we'l of Omiilion as Commiftion of 
 -our Younger as our Riper Age, againft the Law as againft the Gofpel, theft fins 
 -that thence cleaves to us in our beft performances, not forgetting thele enseal- 
 led ourow i and the fins thatdo eafilv bet'et us, and ail thefe and many others 
 'f which you my find out, by perufmg great and Reverend Mr. Durham upon 
 the Commands) notoniv astoour feh'c* every one o\ us for himfelf, but all 
 -©f us for each other, and in a i'pecial manner be mindful of the publick National 
 fins, and that nor only in the Land where yo«i have your KefiJence, but alio all 
 
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 fh* World over •, In Turn let every tiling done to- the Di1io:iourk>f GOD by 
 w.-iomlbever, be the ObjecYof your Mourning before him. An \ I prav forget 
 not thefe fins whereby ^ur bleiTed GOD is not-only difhonou r ei j Bat aitb 
 the Generation of the Wicked hardened, and the Generation of the R\->':teous 
 flu n'oled and offended. I pafsthefe the more generally, thatbeing Intern*- 
 gate by the Enemies anent a Few of them, I was by my bL-flf d Lord determined 
 then to pafs it with this A ifver, Thit I fudged it noie of mv Duty to publiiTi 
 auy thiikg of that Nature to then?. ( with an. Eye to th.it Prohibition, 7 ell it 
 not in Goth? publiftj it not in A kel)n ) which is indeed the Reaion I medlenot 
 with thefe thingsherej having intended this for puMick View, and being re- 
 folded in the Lords Strength ( either by a diflinft Line to the feveral Parties 
 ofFinding, the like freedom I expeft alio from them, knowing that in many 
 things not to fry in every thin? we offend all, ) or by laying my felf open to 
 what my MefTei Lord may off. r other ways, to Communicate mv Sentiments 
 of thefe offered whither to thefe who have g .one a fide to the Right or Left 
 Hoid. 2^/y,Let us in c ur Repentingsftudy to have theDifhonour done to our 
 hleffvd Lord, more weighty upon our Souls than the hazard our Souls lyes under 
 from thence, though we may have an Eye to both, yet let the former very- 
 much preponderate. $dly 7 Let there be much finglenefs and Heart honeftv ia 
 the Bufinefs. . ^thly y Let there be much Dependance on the Lord, and prayer 
 for Grace in order to a right Performance. 
 
 Thefe and many others ( for which I Recomend you to our Faithful 
 Minifters ) any be ufeful in this matter, and for our farder Encouragement in 
 performance of this fo very Necefiarya Duty, letus confider that the Chriftian 
 performance thereof, will not only be Refremful to us in that great day of the 
 LORD, but may beeven fo alfoin time, as will be clear to any that will but 
 Read over thepth. Chapter of Ezekiel^ and -this not from a^r Venue of the < 
 Duty as proceeding from us but ot free Grace, let this be Uaderltood ia Re- 
 ference to the Reft of the Duties alfo. 
 
 The Second duty I Propofe for the Object of our Sincere Endearours is 
 the fear and Love of GOD, I bring thir in together the rather that they are 
 Seldom if ever Separate, as it i« alio with ait the other Graces of the Spirit 
 thou »h (omecfthem may beat fonie times both more or iefs felt by the party 
 himfelf, and more oriels Vifible to others^and for ®ur help here, letus Dwell 
 mucn upon the confideration of that Myftery of Love Vented towards loll Man- 
 kinds that Tran faction held by the Holy Trinity before the World had a 
 Fund ation, I fav let ths Serious thoughts of that Fountain Love whereby GOD * 
 fo Loved us, fo Loved us that GOD the Father was pleafed to want die Refrefli- 
 full prefenceoftheSon, and OOD the Sonnat only to want the raoft Amiable 
 and Defireable Company of the Father, but alfo to take upon him our Nature 
 and comecjowrtand Dwell amongfl: us in the World, Rendering himfelt upoa 
 our Account Lyable to all the Miseries of this Li ef Sin only Excepted ) even to 
 Death icielfand all for us. . And GOD the Holy Ghoft freely undertaking what 
 was (Dutout to him for Task by the Father and Son, in Reference to the 
 further Manifeftation of this Myftery of Love, in Applying the Favour Co 
 freely Bequeathed on Poor loft Mankind and us amongft the Red, and fure [ 
 2*1 this Serioufly Dwelt upon and Prayed over can hardly mifs to take effect 
 ttwariithe Warming of our* Hearts Qodwards, and begetting ia our Souls a 
 
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 Filial fear of dokigany thing to the Difhonour of that Glorious GOD, who (p 
 Loved us, and if to this Meditation, we add that ofconfidering the great pains 
 our BlefTed GOD has been and is at about us in his HoJ^ Works of Piovidcnce, 
 Ordering and Overulingall the Various Revolutions in timer, as for his own 
 Glory, fo for the Good of the Elect', fo that even thefe Difpenfnions that to Poor 
 ' ftiort Sighted us are looked upon TVnSing to ourRuine, many times are by that 
 Holy Providence of GOD Ordered for our yet greater Advantage, fo that there 
 is no Serious Obferver but ihall be Forced e're all be done to fet to his Seal to the 
 truth of the Scripture, a(i things fhail Work together for Good to them that 
 Love GOD ^ I fay Dwell upon thefe things tIK you and I get our Hcarrs wrought 
 upnotonly to Cordial Loving of our ever BlefTed GOD,' but alfo to a Filial 
 fearing of doing any thing whereby his Glorious Name may be Difhonoured, 
 and for Afiftance here let there be much Dependance for the outletting of the 
 Spirit, and if this Love and fear be within it will not Fail to Vent it felf in effect, 
 I mean Strenuous Endeavours to live much to the Glory of GOD, upon which . 
 I fhail defire we lay no other ftrefs then the Probation of thefe Graces 
 being within. 
 
 The Third thing I offer for the Object of our Sincere and Cordial Endeavours. 
 is,theAclualExcercifeoftheGrace 5 the'NobleandFcuntair.Graceoff , aith,asalfoof 
 Patience, thircan alio hardly be Separate, fince he that Believes makes no 
 hafte, I doubt not to lay it that I hope there are not a few thoufands in 
 Brit ainmd Ireland ', who have thefe Graces in the Root , and Habire, who are 
 too toomacliStrangerstothe A&ual-Exerciie thereof at this prelent time, and 
 this is fomuCTi the Sadder that there has no Bitt of the fhort and Evil time, I 
 have had in this W T orldCryed more Loudly for the fame. And do ye not think 
 that our BlefTed, even our BlefTed LORD may very truly fay to us, what he 
 faid to others before in our Cafe, that he can not do many Mighty Works 
 amongftus, becaufe of our Unbeleif: 1 Doubt nothing but that there are 
 many Chriftians in Britain and Ireland^ and other Places all the World over 
 that would willingly have our great LORD appearing in their Behalf, why is it 
 then that we look fo like a People under a Combination to bind his holy hand 
 ( to Speak fo with holy Reverence ^ for though indeed our Faith as it isour Aft 
 can not Merite at the Hands of our BlefTed LORD that he mould appear, yet it 
 being a mean of his BlefTed appointment and a Gift of his own giving, whereby 
 in his Holy Providence he Difpofes his People, and puts them in Capacity to Re- 
 ceive his Favours,theleaft we are called to do is to Importunate the Throne of 
 Grace, for the Exercife thereof, and lor our Encouragement herein let us not 
 only Read but Serioufly confiier that 1 1 Chapter of the Hebrews, where we 
 fhail meet with a Glorious Company of Believers, and of the fpecial and great 
 Blefllngs Attending that their Belelf, and with this we have added Patience, 
 that by our I inpatient Thrilling, even after that which may be the Object of our 
 Faith, we do not Marr the Work with our own Hands, . and though our 
 BlefTed LORD as to his comings and goings be nothing Determined thereto by 
 any thing in us, yet are we called to the Exccrcife of Commanded Duties, as 
 much as if thereby we weie Meriting the thing Courted for, and fo as to (ee our 
 Belt Performance, but Filthy Raggs I do the rather Urge the Purfuance of this 
 Grace of Patience for this, that I doubr not but the want thereof has been one of 
 the great Sins in our Day j whence have all thefe Dreadfall Acls of Compliance 
 
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 I (owed; buteveri from this the LORD delayes his coming. &c. O Dri*df 
 Relation to leave the way of the LORD becaufe he will not Indulge our Humour- 
 fo tar as to come at our Nod, I fay then let us Study Faith and Patience in 
 ingfor our BUffed LORD and Matter, who as he will corffc and will not 
 Tarry io the time of his coming he keep* in his own BltfTed hand ( being an 
 Absolutely tree Agent ) and well worthy is he to have it io, upon mai;> c 
 fideratiows and tmsamongft the Reft thathUElelfrd time is tue IJeit time, | 
 again truft in hittt, for Sure I am there was never one that through Grace has 
 been Helped lb to do have ever Repented ir, neither was tne; -; fcfer any put to' 
 Shame tha ; put their truft in him, go through all that are Recorded in Scrip- 
 ture for Tru fters in him, and you' lha II fina them all Hirmotrioufly joining in 
 this, Surely it is not in Vain to truft in hinv, lor he is indeed a prefect help in 
 time of need, and to confirm the matter ) et more Deareft Freinds, give me 
 leave amongft the Reft to put to my Se.tl and lay, happy, happy, hj'ffc^L that 
 S Mil who through Grace is helped tatruft him moft,and who will ai*5$t"but 
 I nave good Real m U) to do, when they conlider how-ifl his Holy Providence he 
 n )t only brought me into tne Furnace* but alio keepea me Won de-r fully in it,'- 
 and alio in his own due time and way brought me out of it, h.s diefled ieif being 
 the great .Agent in ti. 3 Work, and indeed I mutt tell it to the Com-' 
 
 m-ndation of the Freedom of his Grace, that all the time of my Furnace I 
 wanted notf Counting all the tm.dl and ftior t lafting Clouds, though my own 
 Mi learn age I was into all that time ; his Comfortable and Refrelhing prelence 
 for Eight or 'Nine Hours, Counting ali together the greateft Cloud Uhaa all that 
 time, Flowing from my too Eager -Gripping of my Promifed Efcape ( of which 
 before ) and Limiting my GOD to that in my Eye, which wasyetthat by 
 . which lEfcapcd, this 1 lay lafted longeft and Was indeed kreft, but Blcffed be 
 his Holy Name he no iooner let me fee where the Fault lay, but with the Dif- 
 covery g*ve Grac^ to Amend it, by laying Life and Death in the Ballance, and 
 keeping them ftrH in I qmlihio, not Daring lo much as by a Raw Wifh ra Cad 
 the Scales, then came I to as much Serenity Peace^ahd Satisfaction of Spirit, as 
 any Mortal cou'd be (Capable of, and in this Cafe am through Grace Preferved 
 not only pill the Perfecting of the Eicape, but even lincefor which I defire you 
 may -joy n with me in Blefting his ever BlefTed Name,fo alio in Praying that this 
 oar Prelervation may be both for me and the Reft that Efcaped with me a Re- 
 ferv.itio.n for our fxdrig further Serviceable to our Good GOD in our Stations 
 and Generatio ns, and that we may be helped of him to Spend the Refidueof our 
 Days, in Advancing the Glory of GOD, Oncarrying of his Works and 
 Edification of h : s People, an 1 Conviction, if Pottible, • cr other wife the Terror 
 ofhisandour Proudand Inlolent Enemies. . . ■ 4 
 
 In the laft place, \ come to propofe for the oDJeft of our fin-cere and fmgle en- 
 deavour, that wc'l fail effcdlualy about the preparing of our felves x to meet our 
 Blefled Lord and Matter, whither as to his coming for our Delivery in time, or 
 to judgement in thatGrta.t -Day, for my own part I am under a ftrong Impref- 
 fion of our BUfTed Lords.being-upon his way,- and am not a little perfwaded, 
 that his Sword is already drawee, it's like I may- have fome Differing from me 
 here, this I can not help ^TheVe is another Impreilion, I am now,and have been 
 cinder for a confiierabie^tlrne, that his coming ( con fiiered Complexly ) fhali be 
 y Terribly- In this I expect, I ihall have very few Godly Differing from me, 
 
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 rtine tTie rather to Join this twofold Preparation together, tTiat the Diitlefe ' 
 Ih^urftbent, in Reference to both are one. 
 
 he Duty we woiild propofe to our fclves herein in General, being to prepare 
 to meet our GOD, of which rhef-.- we hinted at before, being no fmafl part, we 
 % fhallfor our further-CleameU here, advifethe laying afide of ieveral things that 
 be impedimentsin this VVork. And Fir ft let us fay a fide Worldly (Vlind- 
 Secondly, Qrrnall Fears. Thirdly, Our own fins, and thefe finsjthat 
 f befeits us. Fourtlv, Our Mining with the people of thefe Abominations^ 
 a cafe very Dangefou* to be foutid -in,, whither either of the ways our Bieffed 
 Lord came. Fifrly,- Let us lay afide thefe Unchriftian Fires, Satan has Kindled 
 amor.;.;!! us, whereby ( forgeting that Charity, and Brotherly Love, fo much 
 Inculcate by our BUffed Lord and Matter) we are rendered mutually uncapable 
 of Edifying one-mother reproving and A ivifing one another, as of doing many 
 other Chriftian Duties Incumbent, that I he not miftaken here, the Lord is my 
 Witnefs, I inter. cf not, that any fhould harden another in a finfu!! courfe, or that 
 any fhoulido any thing, wherebv he may become fharer with another in his 
 Sins *, And I know, I have, Witness not a few in thefe Lands, that can bear me r 
 Witnefs, I have Guarded againft this, in no fmali meafurejn the Lords frrength* 
 niv felf: And whatever Cnallenges I have either had from within, or. from with- 1 
 out in this matter, have been rather for too much Keennefs, then too much Slack*: 
 nefs in this matter, .for which info far as it has been finfull, I refufe not Satisfacti- 
 on in time and place convenient. I fay is it/not fad, that Satan' has gotten fd 
 much Advantage in this matter, that there are very few in the Land, in Capa- 
 city- to be Affi'tmt to one another, and all this through Slighting the method pre- 
 scribed by our BlefTed Lord in his Word, in Reference to Offences, have Men 
 forg>>tt :\ altogether, that they are in the Body themfelves f Or have thefe per* 
 fons who are clear for Separation upon every Account ReclToned, what to An- 
 swer toour Bieffed L<>rd and Matter, whofe Anfvver to. that Queftion, how oft. 
 fhall I forgive my Brother, till feven times was, I Jay not unto you, Seven times but 
 Seventy times Seven times. . * 
 
 A to. \< ic not yet ladder,that a Nation folemnly given to' God in Covenant,that: 
 Party ,who in purfuanceof thefe Covenants, are defirous to fellow the Lord's own* 
 way, which all are equally obliged to, and in which while weall walked, the-'e 
 was not wanting rfiuch, very much of the Countenance of the Almighty : I hy y * 
 is it not fvd, that Party ihould not only have the Common Enemy waiting all • 
 Opportunities for their overthrow, under which Notion I- comprehend that Pa- 1 
 pitttcal Prelatical Party 1 have been dealing with above-, but alio th.'.tofourown r 
 Brethren not a few, ihould be pu filing us with Side 'and Shoulder : ?nd upon 
 the one hand, if we wiilnot remit a little of theStriftneisof otii Obligation to the - 
 Almighty, and with them come and go in the mfittersof G'»d, and forfake AJcfes r 
 his Example, in not quitting a hove •, we mufr run the hazard of thtirdilT.ttisfa- 
 ciion. And on the other hand, ifwe will not yet be more mad than ever 
 ^Q^^himlelf was, by others of our Brethren mud we be pufht at. I lay, is 
 it not fad,that theRemnant of the poorChurch otSc^/.'.vt-fyhould be lying in inch * 
 a fad condition,as upon the cue hard to be in the hazard of drowning, U> on*he 
 otherof burning? Toyouthen, my Dear Brethren, I addrefs my Iclf with thi» - 
 Advice, whatever thefe two Exrreams do among themfelves, be fure, Jiri\to do .• 
 nenhing that may ftrengthen either. -2dly. To make Conscience' of Prayer/or 
 
both. $d\y. When occafion offers, to intimate your heartv and earneft deflre to 
 them, that they would again turn unto the Lord's way, and not any longer either 
 indangerthemfelves, or wrong the caufe of Chrift. 4thly. Let your whole com- 
 plex Carriage towards the Smellof God , and of Tend^rnefs towards both their 
 Souls and Bodies. I dare not advife, to Reafbn with either, for I have hitherto 
 found, that not only hardning to them, but alfo indifpofmg to the EfTayer : A 
 better help m this cafe, I am fure, will be the purfuance of my Sixth Advice, in 
 order to Preparation for our BlefTed Lord's coming \ and that is, let one and all 
 of us ftir up our Soul*, and all that is within us, fro wreftle for a fpeedy coming : 
 I am fureone Sight of his mod Amiable Countenance among us, would avail more 
 in thefe matters, and every thing elfe that is wrong among us in bulk , thsn all 
 the fecklefs EfTays we can make*, though it be yet our Duty in our Stations, to 
 ufe our utmoft Endeavours for reclaiming any that go adray. I have been under 
 a neceflity to give this hint, neither is there moredifcovered thereby than the 
 Phyficians know already, having hinted fo much in their Examination of me. 
 
 My Seventh Advice (ball be, O ftudv, (tady a Soul hunger after our Lord and 
 Mafter,whofe compactions could never fuffer him yet to tarry longawjy from an/ 
 thatwereat the point of Starving through his Abfence.. I mail add thisCauti- 
 on here, look that it be Himfelf principally, if not only you hunger and Thrift 
 after, for though we may indeed have an eye upon the many precious things that 
 attends his coming, yet thefe, all how precious foever, they bear but the Shell, his 
 BlefTed Self being the very Kernell and Soul of the Merry.-, yea it is Himfelf that 
 makes Mercies fuch. Now, my Pea-reft Friends, in the Exercife-of thefe Duties, 
 we have fhortly hinted at, both before, and here more particularly upon this 
 head, with what others Our BlefTed Lord Himfelf may artus to, whether imme- 
 diatly by His Spirit, or by His Servants of the Miniftry. I do nothing doubt, but 
 cither of thefe ComifTgs of Our BlefTed Lord and Mafter, (hall be* rendred the 
 more Refrefhfull unto us. 
 
 That this may be yet a little more clear, we fhall hint at a word in Reference 
 to either. And firft. You know that Mercies coming in the Covenant Channel, 
 are the fweeteft and moft Soul refrefhing Mercies^ and as to either, thefe mercies 
 that come to us in the way of Duty, thefe being contained in the Covenant, tho* 
 not from any Vertuein themfelves, yetby Our BlefTd Lord's appointment in the 
 Covenant, and through Vertue tranfmitted by his BlefTed Self to them in the Co 
 venant : I fay, Mercies coming that way are twice Mercies, and Our Lord'scom- 
 ing to his in that way, the Mercy is ftill the more refrefhfull, in this Refpecl, 
 that to that of his coming, which is Mercy, Mercy in it felf-, yet to thefe it is yet 
 more Mercy, as coming to their Diflinci Perception in the Covenant Channel^ 
 whereas while coming to others. His coming fhal/ be to fuch as a Dream, who 
 while they be well wakened, fhallTe out of cafe to feel the Sweetnefs of trie Mzrcv. 
 Now let nre again Obteft you, Deareft Friends, to make Confcienre of thefe 
 Duties, as you have a Refpeft to the Glory of GOD, the good of his Caufe, the 
 good of your of your own Souls, the Conviftion (and if not attainable ) the 
 Confounding of Enemies. And befide what of Advantages this fhall afford you at 
 hiscomings, with Deliverance in time, which fhall yet neither be few nor frmJI, . 
 you fhall undoubtedly find much Confolation therefrom, at that his great and 
 la ft corqpng. 
 T© which this in a word, you have heard before our BlefTed Lords coming 
 
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 to Judgement, (hall ^e tathe W-cked (y very Terrible, that they dial! C^k .all 
 poflible mean* for (huning the appearance, whiri yet they fhall never get done, 
 and though rn^y great and 1m iii, Iball cry to Hills and Mountains to tall upon 
 them, to cover and hide them from the Faceofthe Limb, yethYtll ali this Cry- 
 ing He in Vam. But" to you, to ynu thnare in Covenant with the Almighty, iri 
 and through our Bleffed Lord* and have been helped with the wife Virgins, To 
 ketpyour Lamps Trimm+d\ this appearance fhall be fofar from beinga Surprizall 
 that it fhali be the molt Joy.'ud Sound ever you heard in your time? O how 
 Soul Refrefhoig ih 11 it be to you, when at thecdllof the lalt Trumpet, you 
 have Raifed up > our heads, through thefe Mooles, and having Soul and Body 
 Joyned together again, at the very firlr Peep, as you look up fhall you fee the 
 Lamb- of GOO Sitting on his Throne, which fhall lo much take up all your Senfes 
 both Internall and Exrernall Spirituall and Bodily, that you fhall not be . in 
 hazard' of being Frighted, with the Screicksof the Reprobate, and Wicked, but 
 thv whole Motions of our Souls fhall be. O To be at him, O To be at him, O 
 how Soul Ravilhing (hall the'fight be 
 
 And now muft we halt here a little till theElecl be gathered together, during 
 which time let us vent our Meditation of the difference that will be betwixt the 
 Elecl and Reprobate, the Reprobate faying Oh alace ! for ever yonder he is for 
 the dilhonour done to whom we could never (hed a Tear, the Elecl fays well's 
 nie yonder he is upon the account of the Dilhonour done to whom I have had 
 many a fore Heart, and have ihedmany a Tear. The Reprobate fays, Oh! he 
 is yonder whom I could never either Love or Fear. Says the Elecl bleffed 
 for ever be the fight, yonder he is who helped me both.to Love and Fear him, 
 the Reprobate fays, Oh! for ever yonder he is whom I could never be perfwad- 
 ed either to believe, or patiently to wait for. Says the Elecl, Rejoice O my 
 Soul for ever, yonder he is that helped me by his Spirit, both to truftinand 
 wait for him, the Reprobate fays, Oh, and alace/ yonder he is towards the 
 Meeting of whom all the Exhortations in time could never move me to make 
 preparation, fays the Elecl Glory to his Name for ever he is there now, for ' 
 Meeting of whom he helped me many a day tobe Trimmiag my Lamp. Says 
 the Reprobate Oh and undone for ever, yonder he is whom ia his Members I 
 not only perfecuted but Murdered many a time. Says the Elecl endlefs bleilings 
 on his ever Glorious Face, for whole fake ■ he helped me to fuffer Perfecution 
 fays one, and tobe Hanged on a Gibbet, Beheaded or Drowned fay others, and 
 to forth* of all the reft of the Duties the Elecl have been helped to perform, and 
 againft the performance whereof the Reprobate have been hardened, or rather 
 have hardened themlelves. Now may we fuppofe the whole Elecl to be ga- 
 thered together,' and looking many a greedy look to be at him, then may we 
 funpole our bleffed Lord and Matter by his Omnipotent Arm bailing them all 
 up to him.in the Air: O Glorious Meeting/ a Meeting without a parting, 
 a Meeiing for Joy unexpreflible, then fhall they be fet down on rhe Right hand 
 to receive their Sentence, as the Reprobate have done already in our Paper, 
 in order of GOD's appointment they (hall be laft, as vou may fee in that 25th 
 Chap, of Matth. out of which we drew their Sentence,andrhen (hall the Sentence 
 of the E>eet be pronunc^d as follows in tne 34 Verfe of the faid 25th Cbap.of 
 Matth, Owe ye bleffed of my Fat her y inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from 
 the foundation of the World* JSoyJ 
 
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 Now, my Deareft Friends, to anfwering my former Suits, which as they are 
 both your Mercies and Duties, fo are attended with fuch unfpe^kable Advantag- 
 es, as we have a little hinted at: I (hall defire you yet to add two more. The 
 firft is, That one and all of you may with me, with our whole Souls, fingand 
 fay, and fay and ring, Blefs O my Soul the Lord thy God, and nil that in me is, be 
 
 ftirredup,his Hily Nametowagmfte and blefs. The fecond is, That all of us 
 with one Soul, may cordially join in faying, Even fo, come.Blejfed Lordjefus 
 
 ^Chrift, come quickly. Amen. Thus, .with his whole Soul, fays JOHN DICK 
 
 lfi. Gttaber<i6%i. 
 
 Having through Divine Aftiftance,. brought my Teftimony to this period , it 
 
 may be fuppofed my Vital Spirits are net a little wearied ', and fure 1 am I (hall 
 
 need to ufe no Argument,to perfwade any that know me Well, th.it I have never 
 
 in. my Lifetime been fo long Serious together, as I have been, fince my Ever 
 
 : Ble{Tea LORDand Matter in his Holy Providence, brought me under' this fo 
 
 lovely Chain, Lovely indeed, yet the Sweeteft time ever I had in my Life 
 time, next to that little time of our Efpoufalls for which my. Soul (hall Blefs him 
 
 jforever. I fay fince it isfo, I hope none will Offend if for my Recreation I 
 break here a jeaft or two, in Referrence to which I hope the rather, I have my 
 Bleffed Matter's Permiflion that therein I intend to do Defpite to, and Spitt in 
 
 • the Faces of a few, fuch as have with moft Violence and Hellifh feoldnefs, not 
 only done Defpite unto the Spirit, butalfo Monftroufly Spitten in the Face of 
 my Bleffed Lord and Matter : The 'Nature of my Jefts fhall be fuch, .as we call 
 in Latin, feria mixta jocis, and in broad Scots^ half Jeft half Eameft. 
 
 And Firft by way of^Advertifemenu to all who concern themiclvesin the Re- 
 
 • formed Churches of thefe Kingdoms, that they ufe their Moyen with thefe mak** 
 ersof Mugs, whether in that place, of Scotland called Muir-madz^oun, or any 
 where elfeupand down the 'Nation? .that in Imitation of the Hollanders, who 
 ( that they might in Remeniberance, of the Cruelty of that Monfterfor Blood 
 
 1 Thirftinefs the Duke of Alva,, caufed Imprefs his Picture upon \he Face of the 
 -Brandy Bottles J they would upon all the Mugs they fhall make, after this im- 
 print on theforepart thereof, the Piclure of this our Duke of Alva ( I mean 
 i'ork ) and u-pon-the back part thereof, tjie Picture of that Pitifull thing ( Claver 
 Houje) and- because they muft.notw.ant a Chaplain, upon the Bottom of thefe 
 ' Mugs, let the lecture of that Monfter (_the Bifhop of Edinburgh) be ImprefT- 
 ed to this effect, that all the Carlinesin the Country, .may havG occafion once 
 
 ■ in the Twenty four Hours, to vent their DifrefpecT to thefe Abominable Wretch- 
 es, that fo with their Names, their very Pictures may Stink alfo, and becaufe 
 
 their Phyfiognomies-may by the Spe<5tators be miftaken, I would advife their 
 Several Names might be Adjoined to their Pictures, lea ft the v looking to Torks 
 -Picture, might take it for that of a Serpent, or to Claver Houfe his "Picture for 
 .'that of a Snake, orthat Monfter the Biihop of Edinburgh his Picture, for that 
 
 • of a Meer Swine Wallowing in Filth. Yet I will not be Peremptor here, fbr the 
 rniftake will not be '^reatin any of thefe-, And now having mett with the Bifhop, 
 that you may fee I wrong, him not , be pleaftd to take a glance of him in thele 
 particulars following. 3 And firft, In a Dialogue betwixtjiim and that prodigious 
 
 ■ Drunkard, -Mr. 'Irotter one of his Underlings ( even thafTrotter, who (it would 
 appear.) having anticipated the Dyet of drinking our Dragie, hadgot himfelf fo 
 
 ' tuii, that Morning our bleffed Lord fet us at liberty , that he took Stowre for 
 
 . Smoak 
 
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 $moak, and the g-lan rings ofhis own firie eyesfor Light Matches, which occafioned 
 ills fo diforderly deferring of the Pulpit, (a place -he never deferred to let his foot inj 
 to the no fmall Confufion of his Auditors as- follows, Having met together Oc- 
 cafionally , the Bifhop fays to. 7> otter, How now Mr. Trotter, lam informed you are 
 A Scandalous Drunkard Mr. Trotter ? My Lord, do you Believe that t Bifhop Tes 
 I mujhbelieve, fince all Men fays fo. Trotter I am very forry for that- my Lord, for 
 though all Men fay you are a^candalom Adulterer, yet I, do not believ-e it Bifhop fay 
 To* fo. Trotter? Tes Bifhop Then to be quitts with Ten neither will 1 believe tti9 
 ether, zdly, You may inform your felyes of the Nature and qualities- of that his. 
 % Sn^rT'Bo!r, which as I am informed.is in the Hands ofSir Charles Halket, which I 
 am Confident that Generous Geetlem^n keeps for no other end but to be a Witnefs 
 againft the Madnefs, the abominable Madnefs of that Mock Prophet, one of whofe 
 Prophecies we. come to offer to your'Confideration, in the third place as follows, 
 He being on the Casllehillof Edinburgh in Company of the Duke of Tork and others, 
 in the latter .end of 1680, or beginning of 1681, looking to that great Comet that 
 did then appear, and being asked by the Duke What his Thoughts of the Comet were ? 
 He anfwers, I look upon it as a Torch in the Heavens to light your Royal Highnefs 
 to the Throne. Did this Prodigious Monfter know what he was faying, when he 
 fpake this? Did he not know the many ftandingLaws of this Kingdom, were Bars 
 in the way of this, which are yet (landing, and (till mall ftand ? I mean thefe made 
 againfi Popery and Papifts having any Place of PublickTruft in the Nation. Does 
 not this Wretch know, that thir Laws are (landing and muft ftand, being found- 
 ed on, and agreeable to the Word of GOD, and enacted by free Parliaments? 
 Does not the Infatuate Wretch know, that any Aft made to the contrary can ne- 
 ver come in the Lift of Laws in this -Nation, as bringdown right contrary to the 
 Word of GOD, and eeacted byunfree Parliaments? Muft we weary our felves 
 telling him this. againand again? And did not this Monfter for arrogant Boldnefs, 
 in daringHeaven, know that by the'Word ofGOD our Supream Law it is enacted 
 lhat the Idolater Jh all die the Death ? Or is he fo wretchedly blind as not to know/ 
 That that Antichrist, that Man of fin and all his Limbs ( of which this Duke ofhis 
 is not the fmall eft ( are Idolaters? ) What could pofTefs this Infatuate Wretch 
 ( when delivering this Mock Prophefie, Sure nothing but the Devil ) it is like that 
 lame Devil who was a Lying Spirit in the Mouth of Ahab'f Prophets, of which you 
 ■may Read in that22d Chapter of the firft Book of the Kings from the 20 Fcrfe to the 
 2,3d, And now though I be neither a Prophet, nor the Son of a Prop^t ( as all who 
 know me knows) yet may I not venture to Vent a few of my GuefTesln this mat- 
 ter? And wJio knows but I may kit nearer the Truth than this Mock and Madly 
 XJnclean Prophet ? 
 
 And Firft, what4f this Comet wasdefigned a Torch (if he will have it To, ) for 
 ihewingthe Turk the way into Germany, whom ourBleffed LORD may make ufe of 
 as a Scourge to thefe, and their Neighbouring Nations, and by whom our Glorious 
 LORD may be making inquiry for the Blood lying in the Streets cf the great ones} 
 .Efpecially that Bloody Houfe of Austria. Secondly, What if it were lighting in 
 Count Tekeli,. upon the head of his Hungarian Forces, to prove the Lawfullnefs of 
 Defenfive Arms, being thereto Ncceflitate by the Violence they met with from that 
 Bloody Emperor and Jefuites, both as to their Civils and Spirituals? Thirdly, 
 -What if to give a Light to the Proteftants \n France, Britain,. Ireland and elfewher'e, 
 -jnorder to. the.geting ot the Mifts caft upon that Scripture, Sell they Coat and Buy a 
 
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 SporX, by die Jl Parties at Home an i Abroad, Rolled off? Or Fourthly" 
 
 Whit ifthisgreuCoiint, was fenr as a Warning >! the Fall of Antichr; 
 of Sin i and all who have fent their ftrength to : an I \vh- vlih him 
 
 Comhrftd againfl. the LORD, and againfl-his A minted, and to U yeftru&H 
 
 on of R?>;jf 5 as another not much unlike it, iid that of Jeru t ttt'nbt a little 
 
 hopeful!, that thefe my GuefTes mall hold much better, . tiiv 
 
 Daring Prophefie, of that Abominable Letcherous Wretch Bi L -»p i . and now 
 
 in him have we two Oli S?t>it Proverbs roide 'gbod'. Firft, 7);e i//»^ Mare is 
 fir/tin ike Afire. Secondly, Pa\ Hrfons Mare goes foremoft. 
 
 Mv fecond Jeft: fhall be this, I am apprehenfivefome may be of that Opinion, that* 
 it mall befall me as it did that Man, Who for telling the Truth, could not get pur.' 
 anywhere. This Man being wandering towardsjthe Evening, meets with another, 
 (\ will not fay it was ourChancelor,butI think it was one like him) who fays to him, 
 Hw now Friend, what do you Travelling fo late} "The other anfwers, Jean get no 
 L 4gtng. Go with me Friend, fays the other : S<a> they came home, and are not well 
 fet down, when the Poor Traveller being Dry, calls to his Landlord, Gleid Carl, 
 end me the Cup by you ? Upon which he takes his Batton, and chafes the poor Man 
 o t'neD-'^r, under Cloud of Night. And indeed our Chancelor,tome was yet more 
 Unchnftian and madly wicked, what could move the Man's Spleen, I cannot guefs} 
 fure I am, ( whatever 1 thought, yet ) I call'd him not Gleid Carl. It is like this has 
 railed his Paliion, that I told him he had fworn in the Teft, That the Ait of Suprema* 
 cy y as explain d, was horrid Blafphemy. And was not this Truth, as were all the 
 Principles and Practices I there owned t And did I not ofTer from the Word of God 
 to Vindicate this ? Why am I then, by Armed Force, hailed out of that houfe to an 
 other? ( In this he was worfe than the other Gleid Carl, who let hie Guefl go free, 
 tho'he would not give him Lodging ) And there I muft be arraign'd before the Ju> 
 dices ( who to compliment the Chancelor) ( or may be the Duke of Tor k ) muft let 
 the World fee, that they are asgkidin their Morals, as the other in his Naturals, and 
 by them forfooth, tho offering Vindication from GOD's Word , and craving it 
 be glinted, that the Almighty isSupream Judge, and his Word the Supream 
 lam ( upon the matter ) denyed both, fas you may fee before) and rolled over up- 
 cnan Afiize, who outdoing both, did mew themfelves flone Blind, in receiving a 
 Pannaloff theii hands on thefe Terms r But for this, as for what has been done irt 
 thefe Lands of this Nature, are thefe horrid Monflers, for keennefs again ft Our 
 Bleffed Lord in his Members, to Anfwer before Our Ever BlefTed Lord y conform to 
 my Inftrument ftanding upon Record in Heaven, at that great Day of the Lord. I 
 fay, Some may be under this Impreffion anent me, but I mall tell them where I ex- 
 pect .fhelter, even the LORD *, for, The Name oj the Lord is aslrrongTower, t\je 
 righteous flee thereunto, and are fafe. As alio, in that Scripture, When my Father 
 anc( Mot her for fake me, the Lord will take me up. This has often been refrefhfull to 
 me, and fo long as 1 have a BIBLE, containing thefe and many fuch, IhopetheAp- 
 prehenfions of the former fhall never much trouble me. 
 
 I remember in the former part ofmy Teftimony, I Advifed our Judges and Afiize 
 to burden themfelves with my Blood, and the Blood of thefe others that efcaped 
 with -me- as much as if they had gotten their unparalelled cruel Sentence put in Exe- 
 cution, I give here the Reifon, even becaufe of the Keennefs they vented in hunting 
 • after us after our efcape, which I look- upon as a fighting againft the Holy Providence 
 of.GQD, and a fretting at his> Holy DifpenfationSj and in this their Keennefs, their 
 
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 Rase ran that height, that not having anew of two footed, they make ufeofFour 
 footed Doos to Sent us out. It's like they be yet ignorant of the Reafon why theft 
 Do£SCtf>uld not find us, therefore «I fhall lend them even this, there was no* Bloord 
 hanging at our heels, and I hope, yea, and trufts very firmly, that rum the Chaie 
 when it will, whichl yet hope fhall be fooner than either his Peoples fainting fears, 
 or his and our Enemies groundlefs hopes will allow either to believe. I fay, come that 
 Day when it will, I hope the Lord's People fhall be at this Advantage in finding of 
 them to be brought to Judgement, that thefecklefseft Currin the Country that has 
 theleaft of the Sent of Blood, fhall never mifsone of them, fince upon every indi- 
 vidual fas we told you before ) is there nolefs Blood lying, than all the Righteous 
 Blood fijed from Righteous Abel, till this Hour. Novo mojf Glorious and Jnfiiitdy 
 Blefjed LORD GOD, even haft en thy coming, as for the Comfort of the weary 
 Mourners, fo for the Jerrour and Confufion ofthefe Builders of Babel, thine, and ours 
 for thy fake cruel and bloody Enemies. Thus very Cordially Prays, JOHN DICK. 
 
 Jl Brief Account of rv hat faffed betwixt the Council and Mr. John Dick 
 upon the Fourth Da) o[ March 1684* being the Da) before he Suffered. 
 
 MR. John Dick, who was Inftrumenftl of and AccefTary to, your Efcapirig out 
 of Prifon ? Where have you Haunted, and with whom have ye Frequented, 
 fince that time? My Lords, if ye had no other to Enquire at then me, ye might have 
 caufed take me from the Court of Guard to the Gibbet. Do ye own and adhere to all 
 your former A&ings ? / both own and adhere to all that I nave done in the Vindication 
 of my Principles, and in the Reproving, if not tbe Converting of Chris! s Enemies, 
 either with my Tongue or Pen, and am willing to Seal the fame with my Dearcji Blood, 
 
 Eollows an Account of 'ye 'bat pajfed betwixt the Lords of Justiciary ,^ and Mr. John. 
 Dick, when his Sentence was re intimate to him, the next bay after he was taken. 
 
 1" HE Lords hearing of it," being Conveened he was brought from the Tolbooth, « 
 and put in the Pannel before them, to whom he gave a Bow, and fo the 
 Clerk at the Command of the Lords Cryed to the Maccr laying, Macer Command- 
 Silence, then they called Mr. John Dick, to whom he Anfwered here 1 am, and fo 
 the Clerk Read as tollows. Mr. John Dick now B In the Pannel, having been 
 
 apprehended before to wit in Auguft las!, and, v'tr at tin. ike 
 
 Lords of Council and Judiciary; was Sentenced, a thijifih Day 
 
 ef September ;63;, to be Hanged )at the GratsMercat oj Bd Sv , -, rbflbth. of 
 if that vis! ant, but the f aid Mr. John Dick having 1 
 Bruzh upon t're 16 '.. 6j that ipffant, and fever al others : 
 Efcape b. Tir,ie that he jhouldhave been Hanged. ana 
 
 now jiandiff amnel thefe are to W errand, Ai< i 
 
 Magistrates of this Burgh, t'j Ci- t.faid, £ 
 
 of Edinburgh to Morroyb % between tw ;• arul four in . be 
 
 • jj I -r.der the pain of 'the Ati. C 
 
 £, .■- of which, he gave a Bow to the Lord's and faid, 
 
 ^gl • / fh I upon me both 
 
 rea f u; to the Laws of thfu] /ever, it 
 
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 ' is Judge of Heaven and Earth, and that all the Kings and Princes therein are but hii 
 rputes <v,ia Sti vantSj this was granted me before. The Second was, That the 
 Scriptures are the Supream Law, and that all the Laws of this Nation and all orher 
 Nations are to be regulate thereby, and in ike an i Nail their Capes to this, this the/ 
 refu fed me before, and now I demand it again, but hegcMio'Anfwer ; So he cryed, 
 now my Lords, I take the Great GOD to Witnefr, and each of your Conferences to 
 Witnefs again ft your felves, and all of you, and the reft of this multitude to Witnefs 
 agai iftyou that hears me, that ye have again refufed me this to grant it to me, and 
 tho ye have juctge'd me once before and now again urr.uftly : Yet remember, that at 
 one D.\y GOO will Judge you, and Reviving my Blood, and'-the Blood of all my 
 Brerriren that has been fhed tmjuftiy,*'and the> 'cryed that they would takehimaway 
 and not fuffer him tofpeak any longer^ fo he rapped upon the Bread: of the Pannel 
 andcr>edout, (GOD even my GOD ) (hall Judge you as ye have Judged me, and 
 that ye (hall find, but GOD forgive you, and I forgive you, if it be agreeable to hii 
 Eternal Decree, and.fo he .was taken away, crying as he went to the Door of the 
 Outter Houfe, faying, well I am refu fed of that which none but Heathens could, 
 have refu fed me. of, but J blifs the LORD for" it, and many of my Chriftian Friends 
 knows my Mind of thefe things, and others may know it when I am gone. 
 
 Followes his Words and Carraige in the Laigh CounciL Houfe, that Afternoon 
 he came from the Tolbooth, before he went to the Scaffold, as >was there, prefent, 
 after the Reading of the Sentence, Mr. Ramfay one of the Minifters of the Old Kirk 
 of Edinburgh^ offered to Pray to him, to whom he Replyed. Sir how dare you pre- 
 fum-e, or how dare you have the Confidence to pray in my Prefence, fince ye are 
 Fighting againft GOD, and Perfecuting Chrift in his Members ye have not onlv 
 Abjured the Covenant, but is Murdering the Souls of the LORD'S people, and to 
 Crown all your Abjured ones, and Abominations .* Have he not taken that Abomin- 
 able Tcffc* Mc. Ramfay. Anfwers, Well Sir, will ye pray your felf then, -Yes if the 
 Bailie fuffer me. I will, if ye will promife to make no Reflections in Prayer j But he 
 Anfwered, that he would make no Rich promifes ^ But. raid he, whatfbever GOB 
 gives me to pray, that will II pray. And fo the Baillie again, Refufed to fuffer him, 
 if he would not promife, not to have any Reflections in Prayer, but he Anfwered as 
 before •, But Mr. Ramfay preffed the Baillie to give him Liberty to pray, and he 
 began to pray thus. ( O LordGod, the Great God y and my Covenanted God^ and 
 the Covenanted God of 'Scotland *, For Chrifts Sake, come with Deliverance to thy 
 Church and People, and help them^ Vindicate and make great thy Glory. And fo the 
 Bailie cryed to take him away. 
 
 The I as! Words. and Carriage- of Mr. 'John Dick, who Suffered in the 
 Grafs Market of Edinburgh, ufon the lifth of March 4684, 
 
 W Hen he went upon the Scaffold, he Beckned to the Multitude, beginning at 
 North fide thereof, and fo turning himfelf Round with a Smiling Counren- 
 ance r andno lefs Couragious Then pleafant Demonftrations, without the lead of 
 Terrour, or being Troubled, either with Deatfi near approaching, or the manner of 
 the Death he was to Die, this in a Princely'like Pofture, he prefented himfelf in the 
 fight of all there prefent \ And then with his hands Falded together, and his Eye's 
 lifted up to Heaven for a little, looking not only ftedfaftly but Eagerly, and fe 
 Sureaching farth his ha'udsj he began thus, jfo 
 
Multitude, ?£ ieaft the moil part knows arid have heard that I have had near fix 
 Mouths Refpire more than was allowed me by Men, which time was gra i 
 in the Goodnefs and Mercy" of GOD" through my Efcape, which Mercy [ nrean 
 time- that I have had (face my cfcape, I look upon 'it to have been given me for 
 thefe two, and in both thefe that GOD may be Glorified. And Firfr, That having 
 fo much more time, I might have the Liberty arid Priviledge more fully to exhibiie 
 and give in my Judgment', At which B.tilie Chancellor called to Beat, but he ftops 
 him faying, -Beat "not, and fo he proceeded dying, Secondly, That having fomuch 
 more timed might the better make ready, and prepare my felf for that great Work 
 I have now in hand,- I mean Death and Eternity, neither of which is terrifying 
 nor dumping to me, for the which and all other of his Favours and Mercies which he' 
 in the abundance of his Goodnefs, and Riches of his free Grace beftowed on me, 
 even one me who w T hile in a Natural State was as evii'and abominable in Gods fight- 
 as any here at this time: I defire to blefs, Adore, Admire, Exalt, and prailethe' 
 Lord, while in time, for I know I fhall fhortly praifehim without interruption or 
 IntermifTion *, I fay it again, I blefs him for all his Mercies and Favours conferred' 
 upon me, and not only this among the refr, but above all next to that great one, 
 that he made me his own by his Purchafe and (o became mine, and altho' I have 
 not keeped all right as to him, yetne haskeeped all right asto me and betwixt him 
 and me all is right, his other Mercies and Favours that he has condefcended fo 
 much to Dignifie and Honour me, asto Crown all in me with Martyrdom . 
 
 At which the Bailie called again Beat, but he u oped him faying, ye need not 
 Beat, for ye fhall have noCaufe of Beating, fo he Cryed out faying : Now my Dc 
 FreindsinChrift, it is your Afliftance ICravein this Exercife of Praifing, 'let ms 
 Befeech you to join with me in Singing to the Praiie of this, even my GOD and the' 
 COD of my Consolation and Salvation^ I fay to the Father Son and Holy Ghofr, let us 
 Sing Praijefrom the beginning of the id, Pfalm : So having Sung that Pfalm through- 
 which we Sang with great Chearfulnefs, <and fometimes Pointing with his Hanas 
 to one Art and fometimes to another, but Efpecially when he Sang the 6th 7th and 
 8th. Verfes, his Countenance foShined, that it might eafily appeared, to Judicious 
 
 and Piofh Spectators,, that he was in an Excelent Frame, and in a Special way to be' 
 Helped, to Sing Praifetothe LORD, and having done with Singing, hefaid with 
 a Pleafent Countenance, Inothingdoubt but amongft" this great Confluence of 
 People, there are many that are nearer and Dearer to our Exalted and Glorified 
 Lord JeYusChrifl', therefore I (Hall Addrefs my felf to two Sorts f and fhall Speak a 
 fhort Word to each of thefe as Providence and time fhall allow me, fir ft I fhalJ 
 Speak to Friends, Secondly to Enemies, at which the Bajiie called to Beat, but he 
 flopped him faying, forbear Beat not, "for ye have had .no Caufe to Beat as yet, 
 neither fhall ye have any Caufe hereafter, and fo he Proceeded frying, as to you 
 that are Freinds, I mean all fucli as are Refolved'to follow our Blefled LORD fuJly 
 through Good Report and Bad Report Cod what it will, I iay according tc the Rule 
 that he hath given in his Word. 
 
 I fay I have three words of good News to tell you, and as the Words of a Dying 
 Man. And Firft it fhall be well with the Righteous,- yea verily it fhall be well 
 with th& Righteous. Now in fpeadung to this, I would fay two things, but do not 
 
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 niirpkerr.ei Fori am neither a Minifter nor a Preacher, for I am not going to 
 preach Kut only to give my laftAdvic^tdthcfe here, which* I fhall do in a few 
 words I For neither do I defire to weary yoa,nor to fpeak,much more the Body being 
 fhortlv to be caught up above the Clouds, pointing with his hand up to Heaven, I 
 mean my Soul, which ihall beimmediatly there. And pirfr, That you my Friends 
 miv understand me, that the Righteoufnels of none can make you Righteous but 
 Chrifa and he Imputed to you for Righteoufnefs: So I lay, ye moft have a Borrow- 
 ed Righteoufnefs, even the, Righteouftvefs ,qf Jefus Chrift imputed to you, and this 
 U4J1C way that ye moll be Righteous, I dy it (hill be well with the Righteous, the 
 Spirit ot GOD," hath faid it in his'word, and that is better than an Angei had 
 fpoken it from Heaven, tor we have a more Cure wordof Prop^efie, 2 Peter 1 Chap, 
 and 16 Verfe, at which the Bailie faid, what Sir are ye going to Preach to whom he 
 A*fwered,yet Smiling, lam not Preaching, but leaving my lalj Advice to thefe 
 here a- not onlv fam, butas others are Engaged toGOD, that I ihould Admonifh 
 my Chriftian Friends and Acquaintances in Chrift, while I am in the JBody j And 
 now this being my laft Appearance for GOD, I am bound thereto \ Therefore I in- 
 t-eatyou Yea 1 Charge, th.n 'ye would not Interrupt me, and ye (hall have no 
 ciuieto Beat Drums, and Co he proceeded dying. But Secondly to be Righteous, 
 is not to (it down, nor red Satined, with what ye have attained, but to prefs fore^ 
 wand to the Prize, and Co walking Anfwerable to what ye have Received, and to what 
 ve erofefs, nor being Satisfied with what ye are oj- may appear, to be in ithe Eyes of 
 Men but'lfudv a holy and inward way, and walking in the fight of GOD, and all 
 Men' t'-r ve aVe the peribnsthathave this imputed Rignteoumefs imputed to you, 
 fa Ubbur to-have your Light fo to (bine before Men, that ye may Glorine your 
 Heavenly Father, and (uch as are thefe. Righteous, I fay it mall be we J with them, 
 " Then a S icond word of good News I have to tell you my Friends is this, that Jefus 
 ch i the Helm of Affairs, and whatever he will he doth it, and there 
 
 is ante to ftop him when he worjeeth, and whatfoeTer his plea Fare is, 
 
 is working one pe,ce ot Work, and a Second 
 Man diinketi heV work! tner peice c if \\ ork, anda Third Man thmketh he 
 
 k. -and it may be all are working contrar one to another 
 
 • they are all working and carrjingon his work even 
 
 varedc hat leaftjomc or tnem would We done 
 
 01 King and caryinc- : . ; nrifts 
 
 short all ot you, yea, I obteftybuforCJirifts fake 
 
 i keep his way, I mean, the way appointed 
 
 1 ^ all that has b e,orihali 
 
 to the contrar, yet his work is (till cai ried on 
 
 tail not ;be d l v S rcl iS 
 
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 )artevenpft s believe-, I fay it 
 
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 .-^ani filthy are verj 
 
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 you, labour to make your foundation fu re and PJght, I fay before ye ia$ 
 
 >feftion, 
 
 -,u as a Dying Man, and take itamongft my La ft Words •, Lav ?Foun- 
 
 1 1 Cure, for without thisye will never be able to "do or fuffer aright for Chrift, 
 
 o this with it, either Sin or Suffer. : I fay, ye will never be able to 
 
 , if ye have not the Foundation laid fure. Will ye know why, it is 
 
 hence if flows, that fo many have made fhipwreck of GOD, CHRIST, 
 
 Conference, in a Day of Tryal y and why fo nuny have broken down 
 
 they builded, orat lea ft feemed to be Builders of. and are denying 
 
 which once they profefTed, and fighting again ft that which once they fought 
 
 1 and tor, and io are fled from their Ground : Here is ihQ Reafon, because they 
 
 i Built upon a Sandy Foundation*, therefore lay the Foundation fure and 
 
 Sight* if ye will itand it out in a Day of Tryal : And that this may be thereby con- 
 
 fiuered, remember Sirs, ye may meet with harder Tryals than this is, that I Jirf 
 
 meeting with, I mean in your Eyes, for it is not (harp to me*, yea the Thoughts and 
 
 fearful! Apprehenfions of what Tryals others may meet with that I have,, makes me 
 
 (eunuch inemore tobeiatisfied, and to rejoice in my Lot. But I fay it again, Sirs, 
 
 Lay the Foundation right , and ye that will not lay it, nor make it your Study to 
 
 have it laid right -,,I fay to you, wait with your perfection, and profefs nothing but 
 
 it you pra&iie. 
 
 My Second Advife to you Is this,that having laid the Foundation Sure and Right., 
 ye wouid t>e ftill Buildingand Carrying on Chrifts Work, untilt it be Perfited, I 
 mean till your Converlation in all things be Suitable to tneGofpel, and Anfwerable 
 to that FundationBuilt up and Rooted in your moft Holy Faith," & in all your Build-. 
 ing, let Faith Patience and all other of the Graces be lively in Exercife, that fo your 
 Building may go Right on. 
 
 My Third Advife to you my Freinds is this, Labour to Lovetme another, I fay 
 to all the People of GOD here and elfe where, Love one another, yea, Labour to 
 Love one anocner more and more, and to bear with one another, and Beware of 
 needlefs and Groundlefs Sinfull Breaking and Divifions, I do not fay that ye will 
 joyn with any in Sin and Combine againft GOD and his Chrift in Sinfull ways and 
 Courfes, but Labour to bear with one another and Strengthen, Edify,. Exhort, 
 Confirm and Comfort one another, and this is the way to gain one another, and I 
 am Perfwaded that the needlefs, Groundlefs and Sinful Divifion, and Breakings 
 that have been in the Land> have more wronged the Caufe, Intereft, Work and 
 PeolpeofGOD, then all the Devils and Men could have done, and has. not the 
 Devil had aSpeciall Hand in the Breakings and Divifions of the LORD'S People, 
 that thereby he might Rout the fame, therefore in Confideration and Commemo- 
 ration of thefe things,- ftudy unity and Honefty in the LORD, at which the Bailie 
 called to be Beat Drums, but one of the Multitude faid it is Orthodox Language he 
 is Speaking, fothe Bailie faid to the Drumers forbear. 
 
 My Fourth Advice is this, Labour to be rightly exercifed and affected with, and in 
 the confederation of what has procured the depriving of what fometimes ye pofTeir, 
 especially becaufe thereby GOD was Offended, Chrift Wounded and the Spirit 
 grieved, and GOD the Father in Chrift Affronted by you in not receiving. his Sons 
 offersin the Gofpel, and not walking Anfwerable to the" Mercies received, and that 
 yaivenjoy, and notwithftandingl would have you think little of what you have,but 
 rather and lo much the more, that ye didfo ill improve it when ye had it, improve 
 
\Y?ntyencWpoflefs, - I fay it>again, improve what Mercies and Privlledges yehave, v 
 and labour to improve every opportunity, either ofdoing or getting good, rement 
 berthat time is precious, and ye muftgivean accountjiow ye fpend and improve 
 'a!) other Mercies that ye enjoy. 
 
 My fir ft Advice to you is, labour to be of a Sympathizeing Spirit, and be more 
 concerned with the Glory of GOD, and with a Suffering Chrift in his Members, 
 'and do not think you Sympathize with him and yet be unconcerned in them, I mean 
 'Chrifts Members, for a Sympathizeing. with them fhafl be looked upon with and by 
 him as a Concernednefs with and in him , an*d what ye do for, or give to one of 
 .them it (hall be Rewarded by him, as ifye had done it to or for him, if ye be-in him 
 "and fo walk in this, and ail other Duties ^futable to your being in him. Now my 
 'Friends my laft Advice to. you is this, Labour, O labour to be at the height «f 
 Sincerity In all thefe and other Duties, and fo ye (hall have Peace in your Latter end 
 *a.nd now my Friends that ye and all t\\Q People of GOD maybe helped to this flee* 
 us Pray to GOD, even my GOD ) yea I (ay it without Vanity, he is my GOD, and 
 » To to him let us Pray. Not being Permitted to Speak to the Second Sort, to wit, the 
 ' Enemies, and after he Prayed, he Read the Ninth Chapter ofEzekiel, as- he Read 
 .; and then looking up to the Windows on both fides, but Elpeciaily on the 
 North fide, where he Efpyed many eft-Faces that he knew,makiqg Demonstrations 
 with his Hands andEyes, as he Read, to the Perfons to whom thefe Scriptures feemed 
 jtnoft to be applyed, and then he Sang a part of the Thirty Seventh Pfolm, from the 
 Twenty,Ninth Verfe : So having Prayed, there was one Paffage much Remembred 
 beyond the Reft, which was this( O LORD fince thou haft Honoured me to come 
 ".here, to lay down my Life\for thy Caufe and Intereft, I Pray even be pleafed to go 
 up this Ladder with me, and tol.ead me through the- Dark Valley of the Shadow 
 ,of Death, that isl^ known to aii Naturdy, and I know that thou will keep my 
 Souiin the down coming thereof, after that he cal/'s for a Drink of Water 
 which was Immediatly brought unto him, and he taking it in his Hand, with a 
 morePleafent Countenance then he feemed to have befor-e,Oiys make way that I may 
 v.inn foreward, Pointing with his Hand to the Ladder, then turning himfelf to 
 Captain G rabam, he faid to him Sir do me the Favour to call in by that Gentleman, 
 'find fa id Suffer him to come up to me; upon the Scaffold, which was Granted 
 iiim, fo Defireingfuch as were not Concerned might be put down offthe Scaffold 
 'then he with a Smilling Countenance turns to the People, and gives them all a 
 Cowngie as he did when he went firft up the Scaffold, and turns to his Father who 
 was alfo upojvthe Scaffold with him, and Embracing him very Chearfully, he gave 
 Teveral KilTes, and Rounded fome of his laft Advifesto him, and fo parted with hini 
 Jaying, f.LORD be with you my Dear Father. ) 
 
 And then turned to hisBrother,who was alfo by him upon the Scaffold,and after 
 
 the famemannerEmbracing him &Kifting,&: fo parted with him with Words to the 
 
 famepurpofe that he had to hisFather,with an Exhortation,that he mould amend his 
 
 Life, and forbear his Idle Company *, But efpecially his ways with feveral others of ' 
 
 that Nature, felling him the Hazard thereof, and encouraging him if he would 
 
 follow his laft Advices £ Then he turns to two Gentlemen which were alfo with 
 
 him, and after the fame manner Embraced, Saluted and parted with them, and 
 
 , then he gave another Bow to the whole Multitude, and fo went up the Ladder, 
 
 . and turning his Face to the NorthEaft, he Cryed out, faying, I am come here to 
 
 \ jiay jto lay down my Life, Which i do wittingly and Chearfully, and.ani neither 
 
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 i Death or the manner of if : And here I co declare I 
 
 •my Lot with wSacme greateft King, Prince, cr Emperor; 
 Id -afford me, and whit I Speak once I fay it again, I lay dowa 
 1 Chearfully for Chrift and his truth, Blefcn^. him that e ver 
 I h.. : lay- i t down for him, yea I am now no moreTroabled-with cr forDeath, 
 
 re to ly. down in the Fineft Bed that the Earth could afford, wit}* the 
 Friend that the World could allow me, arfft here I do De- 
 clare that 1 do Heartily and freely.- forgive all M*\n, wljatfoeverthey have done to 
 ?, and Prayes that the' LORD 'would forgive them, I forgive them 
 thj c -d me to die jiere, hrll and lift ; and I forgive all that apprehended me 
 
 ereto ? and I forgive ali that has brought 
 ., and are guarding me here-, and I forgive this Poor Man, pointing with his 
 • to the Hangman, who is to be my Executioner. Nowl defireycu 
 all. u who pretend to be'righreous,- Study to be Sincere in the Way of 
 
 GOD,' >£ out of your Salvation \ for there are many who pretends to 
 
 jodly, th ...tie of the Life and Power thereof: '.therefore I entreat you 
 
 : .sthe Power and Life of Godiinefs \ for there are many, if not 
 tht mod parr, who pretends to be righteous, that knows lead of it. I fay, be not 
 fatisfkd with the Shell, but labour for the Kernel and Marrow of Religion. Now, 
 my Friends Remember 1 tell you here upon the Ladder, and as a Dying Man ftep- 
 out of Time to Eternity, that notwith funding all the Dark Clouds that has been-, 
 a: a now ..re, yet there area thicker and darker coming, and it is not far off, yea it is 
 at hand, But 1 fav,Tru(t in GODyjL ruft inGOD and he will notdifappoint you, I fay 
 Try ft in GOD whatever Afflictions befall vou,yetTruft in GODand give him Cre. 
 the hearing of thefe Words the Bailie.calls to Beat the Drums, and (o they 
 re Beat a little^ at which he looked down to the Bailie and faid, what Sir do ye 
 : Drums , brcaufe I defire the People to truft in GOD ?. and the Drumswere 
 file; icn he Cryedout again truft in GOD, and ye (hall be born through, if 
 
 e ) e get in him and keep in him. Then he faid I will Sing a part of the twenty 
 ■lm from the fixteen Vtrft to the clofe, for it has been many a time very 
 fweet to me, and 0) I will fing it as my Iaft Song in Time, I fhall be immediatly 
 where my Heart (hall be io Tuned, pointing with his Hand to his Breafr, that I 
 fhilinwcjrhe able<o ftop the Melody and Harmony thereof, then having Sung 
 thefe Verfes he Prayed, m which among other things he had this Expreilion, Lord 
 a Courfe with thine Enemies, and thele of them whom thou hat & Purpo/e of 
 , Lord i min and let ihem \fe the evil of their ways, and thefe that 
 
 I :cmifc make the Wheels of thy Chariots go over their Backs ; 
 And now Lord leave.me not 7 and leave not thine to theevil of the Enemies, haften 
 return to thine Heritage that's now in reproach, turn to thy Church, and Peo* 
 for.thy G1 Wimes Tike, thou knoweft I dare fay before thee and in thy 
 
 t. that I preferred thy Work and Intereil to my very Life, which las I am 
 a Rational Creature is as fweet tome as another Mans is , Yet I durfr. notpurchafe 
 at any Rate, to the prejudice of thy Truth, and fo I lay it down ireely and wil- 
 lingly. So having called his Father to him, a word with you Sir, and To having 
 :en what he had to fay to him, he again took his Leave of him, delivering him 
 a Book to be given to another, fo partedSvith him : And he perceiving his Brother, 
 ( who was on the Ladder with him trembling ) he«faid to him Smyling, and Clapping 
 
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 .;Tyci,-?,ir'i-}ii?nr.o4KeronlM'-ing to pull-it over, his Fare he ( pirtt 
 away- his Hand with his) {aid let ! will draw it down my felf, fo*he pul 
 
 Hinds into his Pocket, and takes out the Cover of his Bible, and putting t!\; , 
 rein k rre"gaye it to his Brother., Charging Kim ftraitly to give it to his Si 
 *rv helooke'd round about him, faying farewell all my Friendsin CHRIST point- 
 with his Hand to^fome that he knew 7 , both in Windows and en the Street 
 ( fixing his I^ves upon him ) he Paid my Dear Billi* the Lord be with you, the 
 Lord be w;th you, and having fixed himfelf upon a Step of the Ladder faid. ' 
 I Remember a PafFage of *Abrhh(tp* y who was Commanded to Sacrifice his Son 
 r, he having in Obedience to the Command brought his Son to offer" him' up a 
 Sacrifice •, Reared up an Altar, and Ifadc fays to him- here is the /Altar and there is 
 the Wood, but where isthe Sacrificeand then he faid { Pointing to the Gibbet) here 
 isthe Altar, and then Pointing to the Ladder on which he Sat, faid here, is the 
 >d and then he taid (laying his Hands on his Breaft ) and Blerfed be GOD here 
 is a free will offering, and I will give it willingly and Chearfuly, yea I can fa) 
 here even upon the Brink- of Eternity, that thefe feveral Years I have Prefer 
 tae Glory of GOD, the wejifa're and Profperityof the Work and Intereft of Chrift 
 his People,- to my own Private and Particular Intereft, and I might have Shu 
 fifch a Death as this", butGOD.knows I durft not doit. ** 
 
 And now, I know, yea lam firmly "perfwaded, That my Dear Lord even my" 
 Exalted and GlorifledLordJefus Chrift, will carry me fafely throw 7 this Dark JVallev 
 and Saddow ofDeath, and will receive my Soul inimedatly after I go of! this Ladder ' 
 unto Glory, where I fhall ever be with him. Then he laid again ( crying with a 
 Loud Voice ) no\v when I can Hardly get Speaking for the Rope 
 Farewell all Freinds and followers of Chrift 5 & again I fay Farewell, arid '-ft'diew all 
 
 thly "Enjoyments, and fo ( havinggiven the Hangman a Sign when he w< 
 be~ready ) he Prayed alitle within himfeif, and when he-had done,he gave the Sign 
 and at the giving thereot he drew the Napkin over his Face, and Cryed out, Fare- 
 I allFriends inChrift,&into thyHands O Lord do I Commit mySoul.60 he w;.s 
 Turned over. And fo ends the Life of this Faithful and now GlorifiedMartyr for 
 Chrift, And to GOD the Father Son and Belfed Spirit, be Eternal Praife and Olzyr 
 .or ever and ever Amen. 
 
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