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18 Now, ſirs, the obſervation that I would have you to take home with you, is this, it is ay a poor body that God hath done a good turn for that will follow him in a ſtorm. And now, people of God, ye ken this, Mary Magdalene that is here ſpoken of in this chapter, he caſt a legion of devils out of her in a morning; I trow ſhe never forgat that till ſhe wan to glory. Think ye not but it was a ſore heart that morning, when ſhe miſſed him, and got a toom tomb an an empty grave? O what would ye have thought to have ſeen this poor woman running through the bands of ſoldiers? but that was not the thing that troubled her, neither the Roman guard that was about the grave, nor the heavy ſtone that was upon the grave's mouth, nor the charge, under the pain of death, that they ſhould not touch the grave; na, na, ſirs, love to God goes beyond all that; he was their Lord, and they dought not want him. The note that I would have taken with you, is this, An ye have gotten good of Jeſus Chrift, ye would through hell at the neareſt to be at him. O ſirs, them that hath ſuffered for Chriſt in Scotland, they ken this beſt the day, they got a ſtormy rough ſea indeed, but a choice pleaanrpleaſant [sic] ſhore, and the captain of their ſalvation to welcome them heartily home. O ſirs, Chriſt had a whein noble worthies in Scotland not long ago, that ſet the trumpet to their mouth, and gave fair warning in his name; he had a Welſh, a Camron, a Cargill, and a Wallwood, a noble party of them proclaiming his name in Scotland O ſirs, if ye could be admitted to ſee and ſpeak to them, they would tell you, That it is nothing to ſuffer for Chrift; they are all glancing in glory now; they would flee you out of your wits to behold them with theſe white robes and glorious crowns, and palms in their hands. Follow faſt if he call you to ſuffer for his name. But what ſhall I ſay? The moſt part of you knows nothing of this; ye that are lying in black nature, ye dought not