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 God to run to. Lord, keep me in thy way, and help me to stand by truth. I desire, this day, to protest against all the encroachments made on thy rights and church privileges: and I desire to protest, this day before thy throne, against the soul-murdering courses of ministers and people adopted: and I desire to protest against that horrid abomination of defiling the Lord's Table after such an ignominious manner.

Oh, poor Scotland! what shall be thy end? Wrath from on high, for your sacriligious abominations. I desire this day, to adhere to all thy covenanted truths, founded on thy holy word.—I desire to mourn over any thing that is in me, or mine, that is offensive in thy sight. O Lord, let us be wholly for thee, acting for thee with a perfect heart I desire no longer to have a posterity than they are for thee. O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, come and be witnesses to this bargain, and close with me that desires to close with thee, and to be thy covenanted child. Here I take all the trees of the wood, and all the works of Creation about me, to witness, that I have given all mine unto thee, not in my strength but in thine. O Lord Jehovah, to whom I desire this day to give everlasting praises, that