Religion & morality > Cloud of witnesses, for the royal prerogatives of Jesus Christ, or, The last speeches and testimonies of those who suffered for the truth in Scotland, in the years 1681-1688, with an appendix, containing the Queensferry paper, Torwood excommunications, &c

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and said, that what they had done was just and right. And,
indeed, they seek no more of any, if they will but own them
in what they do. They think they are right enough ill
taking away our lives, when they who are called Presbyte¬
rians own them and their tyranny, to be authority. And,
now, when I am to go away, I would have you to lay to
heart, how deeply owning of them draws' and how much of
the wrath of God ye draw on you, in so doing. O Sirs, I
would have you beware, and look what a weighty business
it is, “ and obey God rather than man.” I bless the Lord,
I am this day to step out of time into eternity, and I am no
more troubled than I were to take a marriage in the earth,
and not so much. I bless the Lord, I have much peace of
conscience in what I have done. O ! but I think it a very
weighty business for me to be within twelve hours of eter¬
nity, and not troubled. Indeed, the Lord is kind, and hath
trained me up for this day, and now I can want him no lon¬
ger. I will get my fill of love this night; for I will be
with him in paradise, and get a new song put in my mouth,
the song of Moses, and of the Lamb ; I will be in amongst
the general assembly of the first-born, and enjoy the sweet
presence of God, and his Son Jesus Christ, and the spirits
of just men made perfect: I am sure of it.
Dear friends, I would, as one going into eternity, obtest
you that you make good earnest in religion, and be restless
until you get a clearness of an interest in Christ ; for it is a
dangerous time to live in the dark. I would have you con¬
sider what a weighty business it is to deny the Lord of
glory before men. There have strange things of this nature
fallen out in our day. O ! look to yourselves; I would entreat
you to be for God, and he will be for you; confess him,
and he will confess you. As good soldiers endure hard¬
ness, wax valiant in suffering. Resist unto blood, for it is
the cause of God that is at stake. O ! there are none of
you lamenting after God ; ah! is there none of you that
hath love to the Lord, and will take part with him, against
all his enemies ? O ! but it is sad to see you with such
whole hearts, and so little grief among you, for the robbery
that the Lord of glory is suffering. I declare my suffering
is nothing; but when I see you who are professors, what
an unconcerned people ye are, it makes my soul bleed to
see you in such a frame, when the church is in such a con-