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( 26 ) A true Relation of the SUFFERINGS and Death of Mr. HEW MACKAILE, Preacher of the Goſpel.

MR. Hew MacKaile having paſſed, and improven the virtuous Means of his Education, ( at the U- niverſity of Edinburgh, and with his Uncle Mr. Hew Mac- Kaile, Miniſter there, in whoſe Family he did reſide) to the Satisfaction and good hope of all, in the Winter 1661, upon the very Turn of this fad Catastrophe, offers himſelf to trial, (being twenty Years old) before the Preſ- bytery of Edinburgh, in order to the work of the Mini- ſtry; and being by them amply approven and licenced, and having preached at ſeveral times with the great Bene- fit and Applauſe of all his Hearers, he did preach his laſt publick Sermon in Edinburgh, in the Old Church thereof, upon the Sabbath immediately preceeding that 8th of Sep- tember 1662, the Day affixed by the then Parliament, for the Removal of the Miniſters of Edinburgh, from their Kirks, and themſelves and Families from the City, in ten Days after. His Text was in Song I. vii. In this Sermon taking oc- caſion to ſpeak of the great and many Perſecutions to which the Church of God hath been, and is obnoxious; and amplifying the point from the Perſons and Powers who have been Inſtrumental therein, he ſaid, That the Church and People of God had been perſecuted, both by a Pharaoh upon the Throne, e Haman in the State, and a Judas in the Church; and falling to enlarge the ſeveral Ways and Manner of the Perſecutions of theſe Men, and the iſſue thereof, the Cafes of Human and Judas appeared, in the Conviction of his Adverſaries, to have ſuch a near Re- ſemblance