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/4

( 4 ) would have been a flat denying of Chriſt, and a Joining with him and them, I mean Charles Stewart, in all that they have done in overturning of the Glorious Work of Reformation in theſe Lands, and all the Wrongs done to the Goſpel and People of God in this Day, which would have made me odious in the Sight of God, and before the World; for which I bleſs him, he hath kept from ; as the Scripture ſaith, He that is not faithful in the little, will not be faithful in that which is much.

7thly, Being asked if I would not pray for the King? I ſaid, Yes. Do it then? I ſaid, according to Scripture. They ſaid, he will pray for him as he is a Man; but not as he is King, which is high Treaſon and Rebellion. Now my Friends, I being conſcientious to myſelf, that my owning him as my King, was a caſting off Chriſt Jeſus who is Head and King of Zion, and taking on with him, and ſo have incurred the Wrath of God, and homologate all the Blood-Shed, and all the horrid bloody Abominations they have committed in the Land, with avowed defying of the Great GOD. O who dare join with ſuch avowed Enemies of our God, and ſo caſt off the Society of the Saints, and give the Hand of Fellowſhip to ſuch bloody and menſworn Wretches that is making it their whole Work to root out Godlineſs out of this Covenanted Land, that the Name of Iſrael ſhall no more be made mention of: But they will be all beguiled, for

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