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Rh ſwallow up time in endleſs eternity, and blow that great trumpet, and then heaven and earth ſhall go to a red low at once. O long for that noble day, believers, for it will put an end to all your ſad days, and ſuffering days. Perſecuted people of God in Scotland, I remember a paſſage of a great emperor when he went over ſeas to battle, when he ſaw the numerous multitude of his enemies; their army was far more nor his army, he ſays to his general, What ſhall we do? their number is far greater than our's. Then anſwered his ſtout valiant general, We will fight (aid he) under our enemy's colours, and vanquiſh them; and ſo they did. So let the noble ſufferers in Scotland that ſuffer for Chriſt fight valiantly and couragiouſly under their perſecutors ſhadow, and ſo they ſhall vanquiſh them And, indeed, our noble captain of ſalvation, Jeſus Chriſt has vanquiſhed theſe bloody perſecutors in Scotland theſe 22 years) more by the patient ſuffering of the ſaints, and hath overcome them more gloriouſly, and hath triumphed more gloriouſly over then, than he had threſhed them all down in a moment. I ſay the patient ſuffering of the blood of the ſaints, declares his glory much abroad in the world, and eſpecially in thir lands. I remember as I came through the country, there was a poor widow woman, whoſe huſband fell at Bothwell, when the bloody ſoldiers came to plunder her, and ſaid. We will take all thou haſt, and leave thee nothing, neither to put on thee nor in thee. I care not (ſaid ſhe) I'll not want ſo long as God is in the firmament: That was a believer in God indeed. Now, this Mary Magdalene that we ſpoke of before, What was ſhe before Chriſt and ſhe met? for as well as he loved her, we read in hiſtory, that before ſhe and Chriſt met, ſhe was a whore to the captain of the caſtle at Jeruſalem. The note that I would have you obſerve is this, That for as bad as this woman was, ye may ſee Chriſt ſets his love on her, and would not want her, and now ye ſee ſhe follows him