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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 incroachment made on thy rights and Church privileges: and I desire to proteſt, this day, before thy throne, againſt the ſoul-mudering 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.— 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, any 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