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22 ''in a great ſtorm; I would have you to take this home with you, That free grace is no broker of perſons. Chriſt will not caſt away the wort of you that is the ſaints that will follow him in a ſtorm, he hath done you as good a turn as he did to Mary Madalene,although you have not been as really poſſeſſed with the devil as ſhe was, yet ye have had ſome grievous luſts and domineering idols that hath raged within you, that he hath caſten out or ſubdued, and helped you throw that hath ſadly oppreſt you: therefore it concerns you now to follow him, and bide by his back, now in this ſtormy blaſt in Scotland the day.''

But what think ye of our great folk in Scotland at this time, our lords and lairds, and ladies? the ſtorm ſoon beat them from Chriſt's back. I'll tell what our great folk in Scotland is like, They are even like ſo many ladies going to ſea in a calm day in a boat for their pleaſure; but as long as the ſea is calm and they ſee the ground, and no fear of hazard, they bid the boatman row out; but whenever the wind blows a little, and the waves begin a little to riſe and ſwell, and they begin to loſe ſight of the ground, then they cry, Fy in to the ſhore again. Secondly, Our great folk in Scotland, both nobles, gentles, miniſters and profeſſors, and all ranks in Scotland, all followed our Lord at the back when the wind was fair, but whenever the ſtorm began to blow upon our Lord's face, all quat his back for the moſt part, and made in to the next ſhore again. But and ye will wait on a while patiently, perſecuted people of God, God ſhall be even with theſe blaids all of them e'er long. O ſirs, there is few Uriah's now in our days: worthy Uriah would not ſleep in his bed when the ark of God was in the fields, and the people of God in the fields: there is few ſo now in our days, and ſo will be ſeen of it e'er all be done. I'll tell you, ſirs, eaſe is never good for the kirk of God, and the people of God thrives ay beſt under ſaddeſt perſecution; it hath