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Rh been the experience of the kirk and people of God in all ages. Worthy David play'd a ſad ſport one morning with his eaſe, it had been good for David that he had been in the fields that night: he not only committed adultery that morning and alſo murder; but he thought to have fathered his ill gotten baſtard upon worthy Uriah; an ill turn makes ay way for another: it is ſo with our great clergy folk the day, vile apoſtates as they are I warrant many of our great clergy folk, all the ill turns that they do, they father them ay all upon the Bible, and makes ay the Bible their warrand, the council and clergy all does this, even when they condemn the ſaints of God, and takes their lives for owning the cauſe and covenant of Jeſus Chriſt, and for owning his kingly government in Scotland, which theſe miſerable apoſtates hath taken from him, and conſented that it ſhould be taken from him this day in theſe lands. I ſay they will caſt up the Bible in ſo doing, and will ſay they have their warrand from it, both council and prelates, and indulged; but they deceive themſelves, and mocks the Lord in ſo doing, for which he ſhall be avenged on them e'er long. But I'll tell you how they do with the Bible, even as a ſhipmaſter or ſhipcarpenter does with the great planks when they build a ſhip, they put them in the fire, and bows them to the uſe they would have them: but do not ye ſo, but let the Bible and regiſtrate as God hath ſet it; and for your warrand, look Revelation xxii. at the cloſe, He that addeth or diminiſheth, &c. See what ſentence the Spirit of God puts on them. O that ſad defection the want of the right obſervation of theſe things hath occaſioned in Scotland, ſince the ſad ſtorm began to blow upon the poor church. O the many vile hypocrites the church of Scotland hath brought forth; they are mother-bairns but not father-bairns, vile baſtards as they are, now tearing their mother's fleſh with their hands, and O but that is unnatural like.