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20 in a form that ye are likely to meet with e'er it be long in thir lands. Well, irs, there is many a plough plowing in our Lord's acres the day in Scotland, but e'er long he will looſe ſome of them, and cut their cords, and lay them by a while. Now, ſirs, what is it that hath carried throw the ſufferers for Chrift theſe twenty-two years in Scotland? It is in the Phil.iii.10. It is the filling up of Chriſt's ſufferings in Scotland, together with the ancient decrees of heaven. For my part I ſeek no more if he bid me go: he bade ſo many from the 60th year to Pentland, go to ſcaffolds and gibbets for him: they ought no more but his commiſſion, and went, and he carried them well throw: then in the 66th, at Pentland, he bade ſo many go to the fields and die for him, and ſo many to ſcaffolds, and lay down their lives for him, they ought no more but his commiſſion, and went, and he carried them well throw. And then in the 79, at Bothwell, he bade ſo many go to the fields and ſcaffolds and die for him they ought no more but his commiion, and went: he bade ſo many go to the ſeas and be meat for the fiſhes for him, they ought no more but his commiſſion and went. And then in the year 80, at Airdſmoſs, he bade ſo many go to the fields and ſcaffolds for him, they ought no more but his commiſſion, and went. This cup of ſuffering hath come all the way down from Abel to the 82 year in Scotland Our Lord hath held this cup to all the ſufferers heads wherever he had a kirk in the world, and all the martyrs hath taſted of this cup, and it will go to all the martyrs lips that will ſuffer for Chriſt even to the laſt trumpet ounding. But yet, people of God, it is but the brine that the ſaints taſte of, but be ye patient in believing, for God ſhall make the wicked, his enemies and your perſecutors in Scotland, wring out the the bitter dregs of this cup to all eternity, and to ſpue and fall, and riſe no more Believe it, our Maſter will et by this cup, and cloſe and