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 people that had jeoparded their lives in the, high places of the fields, taking chearfully the spoiling of their goods;—these are they that have buried the work of the Lord, saddened the hearts of their poor afflicted brethren, buried the Covenant and the Reformation work, which was the glory of our land.

Seeing all this with the home-coming to my house, which I thought I never would have enjoyed again till Christ had been restored to his rights; for, O Lord, thou knowest, that I desired not delivery till it had come with Zion's: I say, this cast me into a great grief. Lord, thou knowest my burden: it is not hid from thee, and it is all my comfort. O the depths of the intricate dispensations I have been trysted with, since I came out of that foresaid Castle! If it were not that my case and Zion's is somewhat levelled alike, surely I would sink beneath the stream; but, the cup which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Lord, help me, that I weary not before it be at an end.

Would it not affect any soul that ever had any love to Christ, to see the sad fruit of a personal delivery;—every one running out of the furnace after the world, and after his own rights and privileges, without being concerned to enquire how Christ is invested in his rights and prerogatives. Oh! is this