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( 54 ) Hereafter I will not talk with Fleſh and Blood, nor think on the World's Conſolations : Farewell all my Friends, whoſe Company hath been refreſhful to me in my Pilgri- mage: I have done with the Light of the Sun and Moon. Welcome eternal Life, everlaſting Love, everlaſting Praiſe, everlaſting Glory: Praiſe to him that ſits upon the Throne, and to the Lamb for ever. Though I have not been with thee as I ought to have been in the Houſe of my Pilgri- mage, yet thou haſt mude with me an everlaſting Covenant, ordered in all things and ſure. And this is all my Salva- tion, and all my Deſire. Bleſs the Lord, O my Soul, that hath pardoned all my Iniquities in the Blood of his Son, and healed all my Diſeaſes. Bleſs him, O all ye his Angels that excel in Strength, ye Miniſters that do his Pleaſure. Bleſs the Lord, O my Soul. Hallelujah. Edinburgh Tolbooth, HEW MACKAILE. Decem. 22. 1666. I have heard, that ſome of the Priſoners are willing to ſave their Lives, by taking the Declaration, that is, by abjuring the Work and Cauſe for which they adventured their Lives; which if they do, our Blood ſhall bear Wit- neſs againſt them in the great Day of God; and God Mall ſo puniſh ſome of them in this Life, that they ſhall curſe the Day that ever they ſhifted to die on a Scaffold. HEW MACKAILE.

Follows the DECLARATION he refuſed to take. I - do ſincerely affirm and declare, that I judge it unlawful to Subjects, upen Pretence of Reformation, or other Pretence whatſoever, to enter into Leagues and Co- venants, or to take up Arms againſt the King, or thoſe commiſſioned by him; and that all thoſe Gatherings, Convo- cations, Petitions, Proteſtations, and erecting and keeping of Council-Tables, that were uſed in the Beginning, and for carrying on of the late Troubles, were unlawful and ſediti- ous; and particularly that thoſe Oaths, whereof the one was commonly called The National Covenant, (as it was ſworn and