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/11

( 11 ) re doing to me, as I am in myſelf, I can freely forgive them, and all others; But as they do t againſt the Image of God in me, and upon his Truths Account, and ſo againſt himſelf, that is not mine to give, but leaves it to him to whom Vengeance belongs, that he may deal with them as he may moſt glorify himſelf. O if I could ſpeak or write any Thing to the Commendation of the Covenanted GOD of the Church of Scotland; I have ſurely many Things to ſay, for that he tryſted my Lot to be in a Nation, where he hath ſet up his Worſhip; whereas he might juſtly have letten my Lot be amongſt Pagans, and Heathen Nations, that knows nothing of the true God.

Or 2dly, He might have ordered it to be amongſt theſe that are worſhipping Antichriſt, that Whore, that monſtrous Beaſt, that ſits upon many Waters; whoſe Sentence may be read in the Revel. xiv. ver. 9. And the third Angel followed them, ſaying with a loud Voice; If any Man worſhip the Beaſt and his Image, and receive his Mark in his Forehead, or in his Hand, ver. 10. The ſame ſhall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God, which is poured out without Mixture, into the Cup of his Indignation ; and he ſhall be tormented with Fire and Brimſtone, in the Preſence of the holy Angels, and in the Preſence of the Lamb: ver. 11. And the Smoke of their Torment aſcendeth up for ever and ever: And they have no Reſt Day nor Night, who worſhip the Beaſt and