Page:Last speech, and dying testimony, of the noble Marquiss of Argyle.pdf/5

 religion and loyalty are not well conitent. Who-ever they be that eparates them, religion is not to be blamed but they. It’s true it’s the duty of every Chritian to be loyal; yet I think the order of things are to be oberved as well as their natures; the order of religion as well as the nature of it. Religion mut not be the cock boat, it must be the hip: God mut have what is His, as well as Cæar what is his; and thee are the bet ubjects that are the bet Chritians. And that I am looked on as a friend to reformation in my glory.

3. There is another ort that are truly godly, and to them I mut vay what I fear, and every one hath reaon to fear (it’s good to fear evil), it’s true the Lord may prevent it; but if he do not, and truly I cannot foreee any probability of it) times are like either to be very inning or very uffering times; and let Chritians make their choice. There is a ad di-lemna in the buines, in or uffer; and urely, he that would chooe the better part will chooe to uf-fer. Others that will chooe to in, hall not ecape uffering. They hall uffer, but it may be, not as I do [turning about and pointing to the Maiden] but wore: Mine is but temporal, theirs hall be eternal; when I hall be inging they hall be howling Be-ware therefore of in, whatever you are aware of, epecially in uch times.

Yet I cannot ay of my own condition, but that the Lord in his providence hath mind of mercy to me, even in this world; for if I had been more fa-vourable dealt with, I fear I might have been over-come with temptations, as many others are, and many more, I fear, will be; and o hould have gone out of the world with a more polluted concience than, through the mercy of God, now I have. And hence my condition is uch now as when I am gone, will be een not to have been uch as many imagined.