Page:Last speech and testimony of John Finlay, who lived in Muirside in the parish of Kilmarnock, and suffered in the Grass-Market of Edinburgh, December 15. 1682 for his faithful adhering to the cause and interest of Christ.pdf/10

( 10 ) Firſt, I give my Teſtimony againſt theſe Men called Elders in my own Pariſh, becauſe of their Complying with every Courſe of Defection and Abomination that comes alongſt through the Country; 1ſt, They being thought to be faithful Elders in the Time of the Presbyterian Government, and then turned Elders to the Curate Carnagie, and then turned Elders to Mr. Wadderburn that indulged Miniſter; and now are Seſſioners to this Curate: And ſeeing this is true, that they have ſhowed themſelves to be Men of no Principles, and the Spirit of God ſaying exprefly, Me dle not with them that are given to Change; who can blame me to diſown them.

I give my Teſtimony againſt John Boyd, called Baillie of Kilmarnock for his bloody Courſes in many Things, and eſpecially in his uplifting of the Ceſs and bloody Fines, and in oppreſſing the Poor in their Conſciences, and laying on of Dragoons upon them moſt cruelly, which he did upon me four Times: I wiſh God may forgive him for what he has done in that Matter.

Now according to my bleſſed Lord's Command, I am not poſſeſt with Malice or a Spirit of Revenge, but bleſſes, when curſed.

As for theſe Men that is unjuſtly taking a way my Life, not only contrary to the Law of God, and the ancient Laws of the Land, but even contrary their own Law. Now for what they are