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114 The laft Speech and Tcjlimony
fubfcribed to my fentence; and on the fifteen aflizerij
James Glen, ftationer,being clerk; and on the chancellor
and on Mr. George M‘Kenzie, who pleaded for my con,
demnation; and Thomas Dalziel who ordered my tak
ing; and upon Andrew Cunningham, who condemne
me; and upon all the reft who are acceflbry in the leal
thereto: yea, the privy council are to be accountabl
for my blood; and my blood is on the head oi Mr. J—]
C—, who condemned my teftimony againft theie bloodTi ■
tyrants, aflerting me to be a Jefuit. 1 leave my teftia
mony againft receiving that accurfed traitor, James dubtl
of York, and all Papifts, Quakers, Prelates, Curates |
Latitudinarians, indulged minifters, and their favour-i
ers; the Hamilton Declaration, and other papers anctt
a£Hngs, dire&ly or indirectly againft the truth. I leavelj
my teftimony againft the lukewarm profeflbrs, whc»«
write and fpeak grievous things, to reproach the truly;!
godly, and who keep filence when God calls them to givelt
a free and full teftimony for his defpifed covenant, andlit
whole work of reformation, againft a treacherous, back-M
Hiding, and adulterous generation. And as in thisii
place, or any other of my papers, I could not have de-c
figned God’s enemies any otheiwife than by their pre-tt
tended offices; thus far, dear people, 1 crave your liber-p
ty, and let none think, that thereby 1 own them in theta
leaft point.
Likewife, whereas my fufferings were delayed, the jrs
Lord, in whofe prefence I muft appear ere long, knows 1
what a foul grief it is to me to remember it. When the 1
day I was fentenced to die for my dear Lord’s intereft i
came, i’vainly expeCling that my relations that were
great in court, who had feen me, fhould have procured t
a reprival for me; but being difappointed, a fear of death j
furprifed me, hearing that all were prefently making
ready for my execution, and then my carnal relations al- c
moft weeping on me, engaged me, by their infinuations,
to fupplicate that bloody crew for it myfelf. A carnal i.;
guilty of blood in condemning them, to ferve as a warring to the perfe- v
cutors, not to proceed further in thefe wicked courfes, and to waken-j; ;
them to repentance, if poffible, for what they had already done; and is 1
much paralleled in its nature with that of Jeremiah, in his apology before' | h
the princes, chap. v. 15.