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8 according to the multitude of his mercies. In which ſermon he touched neither the tyranny nor defections in the land. This confirmed what he ſaid in his dying words, "However it be with me at the laſt, though I ſhould be ſtraitened by God or interrupted by men; yet all is true and ſhall be well: I have followed holineſs, I have taught truth, I have been moſt in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little," &c.

4thly, The next Sabbath-day he preached at the Fallow-hill, in the weſt end of Livingſton pariſh, upon the boarders of Clydeſdale: In the Preface he ſaid, I know I am and will be condemned by many for what I have done, in excommunicating theſe wicked men; but condemn me who will, I am approven of God, and am perſuaded, that what I have done on earth is ratified in heaven: For, if ever I knew the mind of God, and was clear in my call to any piece of my regeneration-work, it was in that; and I ſhall give you two ſigns whereby you may know that I am in no deluſion.

1. If ſome of theſe men do not find that ſentence binding upon them ere they go off the ſtage, and be obliged to confeſs it from their terror, and to the affrightment of others.

2. If theſe men die the ordinary death of men, then God never fent me, nor ſpoke by me. The firſt of theſe was clearly verified in the caſe of my Lord Rothes, and the ſecond was verified alſo to the remembrance of many yet alive. 1. All know that Charles IId. was poiſoned. 2. His brother, the Duke of York, died is St. Germains in France: I can give no account of his death. 3. The Duke of Monmouth was executed at London. 4. The Duke of Lauderdale turned a belly-god, and died upon the chamber-box, 5. The Duke of Rothes died raving, under the dreadful terrors and ſenſe of that ſentence binding upon him, making his bed ſhake to the affrightment of all that heard and ſaw him. 6,