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 bear my witneſs unto the national covenant of Scotland, England and Ireland; theſe, ſolemn, public oaths of God, I believe cannot , nor diſpenſed with, by any perſon, or or power upon earth; but are ſtill binding upon  kingdoms, and will be forever hereafter; and  and ſealed by the converſion of many  ſouls, ſince our entering thereunto. I bear my to the proteſtation againſt the contraverted, and the public reſolutions, to the teſtimonies  againſt the ſectaries, againſt the courſe of  and defection that is now on foot in the land,  all the branches and parts thereof, under  party, perſon. And in the laſt place, I bear my witneſs the croſs of Jeſus Christ, and that I never had cauſe, have cauſe this day to repent, becauſe of any thing I've ſuffered, or can now ſuffer for his name: I God to record upon my ſoul, I would not  this ſcaffold with the palace or mitre of the  prelate in Britain, Bleſſed be God, who ſhewed mercy to ſuch a wretch, and hath revealed  Son in me, and hath made me a miniſter of the  gospel, and that he hath deigned, in the  of ſuch contradiction, from Satan and the world,  my miniſtry upon the hearts of not a few of his  and eſpecially in the ſtation wherein I was laſt,  the congregation and preſbytery of Stirling;  hope the Lord will viſit that congregation and preſbytery once more, with faithful paſtors. God the poor empty man, that did there intrude upon, and hath made a prey of many poor ſouls,  others to reproach and oppreſſion, and a  of the word of the Lord. God forgive the of that part of the poor people, who  to reject their own paſtor, and to admit of ; and the Father of mercies pity that poor  people; and the Lord viſit the congregation preſbytery of Stirling once more with faithful paſtors,