Religion & morality > Last publick sermon, being a faithful and free one, preached by Mr. Hugh Mackaile ... upon the Sabbath immediately preceeding that 8th of September 1662, the day affixed for the removing of the ministers of Edinburgh from their kirks

quity; a War wherein there is noDifcharge, neither will
Wickedncfs deliver them that are given to it. And what
the glorious Confequertces of Holincfs are, they know, who
not only in this Life have tailed how gracious the Lord is,*,
but now, being at reft from their Labours, tafte alfo how'
glorious he is. How little doth it link in the Apprehen-
fions of the moft PartT>f Men, that even thefe who hang
down their Heads, being in Heavinefs through manifold
Temptations, muft one Day rejoice, and lift up their Heads,
becaufe their Redemption draweth nigh. And, truly; if
you lift up your Eyes to the Confideration of the holy and
Ijxttlefs Nature of God, who is of purer Eyes than that
he can behold Iniquity, you will ealily be induced to be¬
lieve, that they muft be fully drained from the Dregs of all
Impurity, who are inftalled in fuch glorious Privileges,
fpoken of, Rev. vii. i y. and 16. Thfy have iva/hed their
Robes, and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb, there¬
fore are they before the Throne of God, and ferve him Day
and Night in his Temple; and he that fitteth on the Throne
Jball dwell among them; they jhall hunger no more, nor thirjl
any more, nor Jhall the Sun light on them, nor any Heat.
They are above the Reach of all Mifery, becaufe they
are above the Reach of allbin : But, becaufe theChildren of
the Kingdom, while they are in this llrange Land, militant
again!! innumerable Oppofitions, are yet in a great Meafure
infedted with Ibme finful Stain ; whether we look upon
them dijlributively, there is not one juft Man upon Earth,
that fo doth good as he finneth not; there is, even in it
Paul, Sin dwelling within, hindering him from the Good ■
which he would, and prompting him to the Evil which lie
Would not; or whether we look upon them colie [lively,
there are Ibme in the whole Collection of Believers, who,
by Ibme palpable Back-Hiding, offend the whole Generation
of the Righteous ; and, therefore, they cannot fay to their
Enemy, O Enemy, Deftrucftions are come to a perpetual
„ . End,