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Rh many of you, and given you a farewell-chap upon your heart that he is likely to reprove you no more, till he make his fury rest upon you: but, however, I have this to say, and remember that I have said it. Ye that want heart-holiness, the devil and ye shall come alike soon to heaven; if God be in heaven ye shall find this true that I have said to you; but I ken not what I have ado among you this day; for I can do no good among you; it seems the gospel is a sealed book to most part of professors in these lands, and in this generation: ye were all perjured in the beginning with complying with prelacy, and hearing these cursed curates, after ye had covenanted and sworn to God, and engaged yourselves in that covenanted work of reformation, and as long as ye mourn not for that sin as much as for whoredom, adultery, murder or dealing, the gospel will never do you good; I charge you to believe this, and ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to tell you these things in that day when God shall summon you before his tribunal; I leave these things upon you. But as for you the sufferers in Scotland, that God hath made choice of to give testimony for him, the poor lads and lasses in Scotland, that hath suffered for him, that he hath taken out to scaffolds, your petition is in the Revelation, 12 chap. 1 ver. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet: the sufferers in Scotland hath gotten the world under their feet this day. If he charge any of you in this country-side to go out and suffer for him, deny him not; he has taken few out of Carrick or Galloway yet, but ye know not what he will do. And now, people of God, wait on patiently, and make conscience of dealing with him, for I have news to tell you; he will reach his hand on all the malignants e'er long; ay, he will cut off the remnant of them in Scotland e'er long, although they have said as in our text, This is the heir, come let us kill him, and seize on his inheritance. And if they B