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/8

( 8 ) carrying Arms againſt Chriſt and his Followers, who took me, and confeſt to me, that he had not an Order for it. And againſt that Party that carried me to Edinburgh; and eſpecially, Alexander Gemmil, my Neighbour, for he vexed me more then all that Party, for he ſaid I married Folk, and baptized Children, and mocked me moſt dreadfully.

A Line of Advice to two or three Sorts of Folk. To you that are old Profeſſors and Covenanters in the Weſt of Scotland, and eſpecially in Kilmarnock Pariſh. What are ye doing? Where are ye now be when уe ſwore the Covenant, and ſtore againſt Popery and Prelacy, and all that Faction, Side and Party? How are ye proſecuting the Ends of that Covenant, now in the Sight of God, and the Oath of God, that ye ſwore with Hands lifted up to the MOST HIGH GOD, and before Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon? O my Soul trembles to think what bad Example ye are to the young Generation, ye who ſhould have been as the He-Goats before the Flock, to train them up in the Way of God, and the Way of Holineſs and Righteouſneſs, and now ye are leading them the juſt contrary: Should ye not have been more tender of the Blood of the Souls of the young Generation; as to turn your back upon your Pro- feſſion, and turn in with the Men of theſe Abominations in all Things? O fear the Wrath of