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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Yet notwithstanding this their hellish rage,
The noble Wharry leapt upon the stage,
With courage bold, he said, and heart not faint,
This blood shall now seal up our covenant.
Ending, They who would follow Christ, should take
Their cross upon their back, the world forsake.
Inscription on James Nisbet, James Lawson, and Alexander Wood,
buried at the Gallows-foot, Glasgow.
Here ly martyrs three,
Of memory,
Who for the covenants did die ;
And witness is
’Gainst all these nations peijury.
Inscription on a stone in Eastwood Parish, lying upon the corpse of James
Eagle and John Park, who suffered at the Cross of Paisley, for refusing
the Oath of Abjuration, in the year 1685.
Stay, passenger, as thou goes by,
And take a look where these do ly,
Who for the love they bare to truth
Were depriv’d of their life and youth.
Tho’ laws made then, caus’d many die,
Judges and ’sizers were not free ;
He that to them did these delate,
The greater count he hath to make ;
Yet no excuse to them can be :
At ten condemn’d, at two to die.
So cruel did their rage become,
To stop their speech caus'd beat the drum.
This may a standing witness be
’Twixt Presbytry and Prelacy.
Inscription on the grave stone at Cathcart, lying on the bodies of Robert Tam
Thomas Cook and John Urie, who were shot at Polmadie, May llth, 1685.
The bloody murderers of these men
Were Major Balfour and Captain Maitland.
And with them others were not free,
Caus’d them to search in Pomadie.
As soon as they had them out found,
They murder’d them with shot of gun
Scarce time to them did they allow
Before their Maker their knees to bow.
Many like in this land have been,
Whose blood for vengeance cries to heaven.
This horrid wickedness you see
Was done in lone of Pomadie ;
Which may a standing witness be
Twixt Presbytry and Prelacy.
Inscription on a stone in the church-yard of Eaglesham, upon the bodies of
Gabriel Thomson and Robert Lockhart, shot by a party of Highland-
men and Dragoons, under the command of Ardincaple, May 1, 1685.
These men did search through moor and moss,
To find out all that had no pass.