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14 day. I fear the Lord hath ſaid as in the 14th of Jeremiah, 11 ver. Pray not for this people, them that dies, let them die, and them that are for the ſword, to the ſword, and them that are for the famine, to the famine, &c. And God ſhall be avenged on theſe apoſtate lands, and namely upon the apoſtates of thee, O harlot Scotland, from the king to the beggar, no man ſhall eſcape. And therefore, O people of God, flee faſt to your chambers, as ye have it in Iſaiah xxvi. 20. for I fear there ſhall be no ſhelter e'er long.

And I will tell you more, ſirs, I fear e'er the ſtorm go over, the day is coming in theſe lands, that a bloody ſcaffold will be thought a good ſhelter: therefore, people of God, believe theſe things, and lay them to heart, for ye ſhall meet with them e'er all be done: and now, people of God, I have this to tell you likewiſe, that ye ſhould all mourn for and be concerned with, and that is, the enemies of God in Scotland had never gotten us broken and ruined as they have done, if they had not plowed with our own heifer: they have broken the kirk of God in Scotland, and deſtroyed us all by this ſinful and idolatrous indulgence: but I'll tell you for all the craft they have learned with their maſter the devil to draw ſo many miniſters and profeſſors after them for a ſinful ſhelter, God ſhall ſweep them away in the deluge of his wrath that is at the door in thir lands, it ſhall ſweep away both friends and foes: but yet I'll tell you, our Lord ſhall break them by a yoaking of their own plough (for well can be do it) and he ſhall do it in Scotland e'er long: he will break them and ruin them ſo clean that the remnant of Baal ſhall be hateful yet to be named in Scotland'', or many of theſe lands. I mean idolatry and all Romiſh wares ſhall be ſweeped away with the blood of the ſaints that hath been ſhed, and is to be ſhed in Scotland, and in theſe covenanted lands e'er the ſtorm go over, and before the Lord have done with us, and namely in thee apoſtate'' Scotland.

But yet glorious ſhall be the days that ſhall be in thee, O Scotland, in deſpite of devils and wicked