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

JAMES NISBET.
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desire to own the same, make it your ground to plead with
the Lord, till he come back again to these lands. 6. To the
preaching of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, as it was
faithfully preached by faithful ministers, called and com-
missionated, and sent by himself; and also to the Acknow¬
ledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, and the Causes
of God’s Wrath against this land this day: but alas ! it
may be said, many have gone backward, and not forward ;
the most part of this generation have refused to walk any
more with him, ever since Bothwell, only excepting Mr.
Donald Cargil and Mr. Richard Cameron, and I desire to
set my seal to the faithfulness of their doctrines, for my
soul has been refreshed by them. And I set my seal to all
I their proceedings and actings in the work they were called
to, and my soul blesseth the Lord that ever I heard them
|i preach. 7. To all the appearings in arms in defence of the
gospel, and in self-defence, both before Bothwell, and since.
; 8. To the Excommunication at the Torwood, by Mr. Donald
;l Cargil, as it is just and lawful, and will stand in force and
j record, ay till repentance make it null, of which there is little
| appearance. 9. To the testimony given at Rutherglen,
May 29, 1679; to the declaration given at Lanark, June 11,
1682, by a party whom the Lord raised and stirred up by
his Spirit, and owned in that work, to give a public testi¬
mony against that soul-destroying, and land-ruining thing
called the test, although many in this generation be pleading
for the lawfulness of it, and disowning the covenant to which
we are all bound. O, my heart trembles to think what will
come on this generation, for their dreadful apostacy and
departing from the way of the Lord. 10. To all the fellow¬
ship meetings of the Lord’s people, for reading, praying, and
singing of psalms, and all the other duties proper for, and
incumbent upon them. I mean those that wrestle and hold
up the cause of his ruined work, and his poor suffering rem¬
nant. 11. To the eight articles, called the New Covenant,
taken at the Queensferry, off worthy Henry Hall.
Now, as I have left my testimony in short to the truths
of God, so I desire to leave my testimony against the de¬
fections of the time, as the Lord shall help and assist.
Therefore, I, as a dying witness, leave my testimony—1.
Against Popery and Prelacy, which is so much counte¬
nanced and set up in Scotland this day, especially by those