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30 ing to the red ſea: Wherefore was it? it was becauſe they had ſeen many miracles in Egypt, but they went not over Jordan, but fell in the wilderneſs, and died for their ſins: their hearts was not right with God, as many of this generation is. I warrand you our Lord had a thick back in Scotland about thirty or forty years ago, of ministers and profeſſors when the day was fair; but when the ſtorm began to blow, Chriſt's back grew very thin: the miniſters left him and fled in to the indulgence under the enemies wings for ſhelter; and many profeſſors followed them for eaſe and love to the back and the belly. But wait on, people of God, a little, and God ſhall give them a rouſe e'er long: but I fear, when God comes to call the roll of Scotland, that he find many blanks, dead miniſters and dead profeſſors, dead men and women, though going on their feet.

Now ſirs, as I laid before, that if ye will follow him in this ſtormy blaſt, be humble and much denied to your own things, for a proud profeſſor nothing leſs nor a fall will do his turn. And, now ſirs, take heed what ye are doing, for it is a ſtrange time we live in (ſo to ſpeak) it is hard keeping touches with God, now when he is travelling up and down ſeveral ſhires in Scotland, and ſaying to this to man and that woman, Go ſeal my truths with your blood. He hath taken few out of the hires of Galloway or Carrick to a ſcaffold to witneſs for him yet, I think we ſhould be counted with the reſt of the kingdom, and yet ye ken not what is coming. I pray you, if he come to ſeek a teſtimony from any of you, deny him not, for he denied none of you that is the elect, when ye were between the tining and the winning.

And now, ſirs, I leave theſe truths on all of you: I dare not for my very ſoul flatter with you, not knowing how ſoon ye and I both may be cited before the tribunal of God. And now I charge you to join with none of theſe time-ſerving hireling miniſters,