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Rh forth O we long to live to ee theſe glorious days that ſhall he in thee, O Scotland, ''e'er it be long. Once Scotland ſent out her glory to all lands round about. Now ſhe ſits as a widow, and few to take her by the hand: but yet her huſband will not forſake her, but will yet return again to Scotland, and he ſhall ſend out her glory to all lands round about, and more gloriouſly than ever ſhe formerly did.''

But now, ſirs, in the next place, the note that I would have you to take home with you is this, A poor believer gets never a bonnier blink of Jeſus Chriſt nor when the croſs lies heavieſt between their ſhoulders, for ſuffering is the ready way to glory, and this is the experience of all the cloud of witneſſes that hath ſuffered for Chriſt can teſtify: and therefore, faint not in the way for what bloody adverſaries can do to you. Now people of God in Scotland, there is another thing that I have to tell you, and that is this, I would have you to get preſervatives, for ye walk in a peſtilentious air, and are nearer unto hazard nor ye are aware of. If any of you were going throw a city where the plague were hot, ye would ſeek ſomething to be a preſervative to put in your mouths and noſes to keep you from being infected with the ſmell. There will be need of this in Scotland e’er long ſirs. I know ye think me but a fool for ſaying things, but I man tell you this in the name of the Lord, who ſent me this day to tell you theſe things, that e’er it be long, the living ſhall not be able to bury the dead in thee, O Scotland, and many a mile ſhall ye go and ride, and ſhall not ſee a firehouſe, but ruinous waſtes for the quarrel of a broken covenant, and wrongs done to the Son of God in Scotland; and then the teſtimony of a good conſcience will be a good feaſt in that day.

But now people of God, the preſervative that I would have you to get againſt that woful day, is in that ſecond epiſtle of Peter, iii. chap. 18. ver. But D