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12 news to tell you, Chriſt is as much bound to hold you up, as ye are bound to ſuffer for him, when ye are called to it and all theſe that hath given a teſtimony for Chriſt theſe one and twenty years. is a large proof of it, and all of them young and old hath been wonderfully holden up to the admiration of all on-lookers, even to ſome of the perſecutors themſelves, and all of them ſhall come in as witneſſes againſt you that flenched from the truth, or ſhall flench from it, and theſe ſhall be eternal ſtanding witneſſes againſt you: yea, I will tell you more, not one of you wicked unconcerned bodies, I ſay, not a drop of the ſaints blood which hath been ſhed in Scotland in this ſad day of Zion's trouble, perecution and calamity, but it ſhall be required at your hands: ye are the murderers of the ſaints, and I trow there are many ſuch in Scotland this day, both men and women, and rotten unconcerned miniſters and profeſſors, that God will ſweep away e'er long in his anger, as well as a profane wicked king, wicked nobles, and prophane court-folk, kirkmen and prophane prelates, and all their falſe underlings, God ſhall make a fair riddance e'er long: God haſten it in his due time.

But I'll tell you ſirs, the Lord's return to this land will be terrible, for the godly ſhall fall among the wicked, for our perjury and fale dealing with him in his covenant: therefore make for it, for I give you fair warning the day; I you take the alarm, and I leave it upon you old folk, that is going o'er the brae, and dropping into eternity, and knows not where ye will take up your eternal lodging. O dreadful! what will become of you? dying and unreconciled with God.

Remember the word that I cited to you in the 12th of the Hebrews, Without holineſs none ſhall ſee the Lord But yet poor broken-hearted believers (as I ſaid to you before) it is not ſuch a meaſure of holineſs as Enoch, Abraham, Moſes and David, or any of theſe