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/9

( 9 ) of that God, who has ſaid, Shall any break the Covenant, and be delivered ? Now therefore, I deſire, as ye tender your own Souls, that ye would turn again to your first Husband, for it was better with you than it is now.

Next, You that are the young Generation, Men and Women, What are ye doing? Are ye following the Footſteps of your Fathers, in their Courſes of Defection joining in hearing theſe perjured Curates, anſwering at their Courts, joining in their Worſhip with them, in their abominable and Soul-deſtroying Courſes, contrary to the Word of God, our Solenn Covenants, and Confeſſion of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechiſms, the Order of the Church of Scotland, in Diſcipline, Worſhip and Government. As they, ye, and I, is ſworn with Hands lifted up to the MOST HIGH GOD, which no Powers on Earth is able to looſe, nor undo, nor free from no Man, nor Woman, baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoſt: O therefore take heed how ye think to anſwer before the great Sin-revenging GOD, before whom I am to appear within a little Space, and before whom I and all the World will ſtand and be judged with righteous Judgment.

And likewiſe ſhewing that I dare not but ſhew you my Mind anent ſome Perſons and their Carriage in this Day of Jacob's Trouble, when Zion is lying waſte and plowed like a Field.

Firſt, I