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Rh A 5th ſort of dead folk are, You that hath gone with the ſtorm, and hath complied and hath given your conſent to the putting Christ out of poor Scotland ''by your bonding and teſting againſt him: what are ye doing, ſirs? if he marvellouſly prevent it not, I fear black popery e'er long: the pope is coming back to ſeek his pawn that he left in Scotland long ago, and ye are helping him well: I'll tell you more of it, firs, if the Lord had not gotten three or four ſacrifices of the blood of the ſaints in Scotland, we had all been bowing to ſtocks and ſtones the day, and to black idolatry, which was at Pentland, Bothwell and Airdſmos: the blood of the ſaints hath given a teſtimony againſt the defections of all ranks in'' Scotland. Our Lord's enemies hath not broken a pinning off, or dung a pin out of the work of God; but the blood of the ſaints hath run in throw and out throw, giving a teſtimony againſt all the uſurpation which they have made upon our Lord's crown in Scotland, which ſpeaks good news to us the day, and the poſterity following: the generation that are yet to ariſe ſhall partake of the benefits of the ſuffering remnant in Scotland. Now old folk, what are ye doing? I fear the ſtorm lay you by; and ye young folk, what are ye doing? will ye venture to cloſe with him, lads and laſſes in Scotland; and I will tell you news of it, the lads and laſſes that hath followed him in this ſtormy blaſt, and hath laid down their lives for him; your eyes, ſirs, ſhall ſee them on thrones, and crowns on their heads, and robes of glory, with harps and palms in their hands, as you may ſee in the Revelation, 7 chap. and 9th ver. And ye that are young folk in this country-ſide (if he call you to it) and if ye will venture to follow him in this ſtormy blaſt, and bide by his back, and ſtick by his perſecuted truths in Scotland the day. He will ſet you on thrones, and ye ſhall give in your judgment with him, when he ſhall judge the bloody king, and the bloody council and parliament, the bloody duke