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/13

( 13 ) generate Plant of a ſtrange Vine unto me, &c. In that Day of Planting we could have ſung that Song. Iſa. xxvi. 1. We have a ſtrong City, Salvation will God appoint for Walls and Bulwarks. Lam iv. 11. The Lord hath accompliſhed his Fury, he hath poured out his fierce Anger, and hath kindled a Fire in Zion, hand it hath devoured the Foundations thereof- ver. 12. The Kings of the Earth, and all the Inhabitants of the World would not have believed, that the Adverſary and the Enemy ſhould. have entered within the Gates of Jeruſalem. ver. 13. For the Sins of her Prophets, and the Iniquities of her Prieſts, that have ſhed the Blood of the Juſt in the Midſt of her; ver. 14. They have wandered as blind Men in the Streets, they have polluted themſelves with Blood, ſo that Men could not touch their Garments. This may be our Regrete before God, as it is in the 7 Verſe, Her Nazarites were purer then Snow, they were whiter then Milk, they were more ruddy in Body then Rubies, their Poliſhing was of Saphire. ver. 8. Their Viſage is blacker then a Coal: They are not known in the Streets: Their Skin cleaveth to their Bones, it is withered, like a Stick, &c. O how unnatural like were it for the Mother to let the Child the Son of her Womb periſh for lack of the Breaſt, were the free of the Child's Blood, it periſhing for want of the lively Preached Goſpel; ver. 3. Even as the Sea-monſters draw out the Breaſt, they give Suck to their