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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LAST SPEECH AND TESTIMONY OF
Last Testimony of James Robertson.
Dear Friends,—True lovers of Zion’s righteous cause, if 1
could speak or write any thing to the commendation of the
covenanted God of the Church and kingdom of Scotland, I
have surely many things for which to do it. 1. That he
trysted my lot to be in a nation where he hath set up his
pure worship, whereas he might have let it be among the
Pagans and heathen nations that know nothing of the true
God. 2. He might have ordered my lot among those that
are worshipping Antichrist, that whore of Rome, that mon¬
strous beast, that “ sitteth upon many waters,” whose sen¬
tence many be read, Rev. xiv. 9-11. “ And the third angel
followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man wor¬
ship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his
forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture, into
the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone, in the presence of his holy angels, and
in the presence of the Lamb ; and the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no
rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image,
and whosoovor receiveth the mark of his name,” &c. So
that it is as sure as God is God, and the holy scriptures are
his word, according to which all men that have heard or seen
it, shall be judged, having the sentence of absolution or con¬
demnation passed according thereto. “ For as many as have
sinned without law, shall also perish without law ; and as
many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.”
Rom. ii. 12. So that it is clear, that the first will surely pe¬
rish, viz., all infidels, atheists, and Pagans, that know not the
true God, nor his law. “ And as many as have sinned in
the law, shall be judged by the law,” &c. So that whatever
vain hopes Papists may have of being saved, living and dy¬
ing Papists, or whatever charity loose Protestants have upon
that account to give them, they are as far from being saved
in that unconverted condition, as devils which are eternally
cast out of his presence. 3. I have him to bless for this,
that my lot is not among the corrupt Protestant churches
abroad, where Lutheranism and other corruptions and errors, j
both in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, secta- ;
rian, Episcopal, or Erastian abounded; but, in the reformed