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 where Christ shall reign, and let them be owned. We are constrained to say this, and can say in our Lord, and Masters name, let vows and covenants go through the land, though we should not have an army in Scotland this twelvemonth: yet, as the Lord lives, though he had not a party to back him yet he himself would bring down all about us, 'Vow and pay unto the LORD, and he will cut off the spirit of princes, for he is terrible to the kings, of the earth;' he will make them all to shake and quake. It is observed by old bishop Spotswood in Edinburgh, at the time the last bishops were brought down: when he heard tell that some noblemen and gentlemen were met together in Edinburgh, to renew the national covenant. O, says he, we have done with it, since his people have entered into the covenant. O that there were personal, entering into covenant, and that there were general and national vowing to God: that they would have none to be the head of his church but Christ and that they would have none to be ruler but such as will be a terror to evil doers, haters of covetousness, and lovers of God if it were so, we durst pawn our souls, that our Lord would soon arise out of his place and let us see our desire on our enemies; that we were wise! O but, poor people they are such disheartened and discouraged they think that no means will do good: now if we would acknowledge that we have