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
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eternal PerJitiort; and tlie Devil makes a profperous Pr<>-
fanity a Temptation to the Children of God toturnafide,
and make Choice of theirDelufions : When a Believer feeth
Profanity rejoicing, enjoying as it were the Cool of the
Day, while he endureth the Heat of it, he is tempted to
fay, with Afaph, Pfal. Ixxiii. Surely 1 have cleanfed tnyfelf
in vain, and wa[hen my Hands in Innocency. As it is a love¬
ly thing, in the Eyes of God and his People, to lee them
going up in Tribes to give Thanks to the Lord, fo it is a
pleafant thing, in the Eyes of the Prince of Darknefs, to
fee his Servants go forth by Bands, to fee them join toge¬
ther, and break their Sleep, that they may give themfelves
to Drunkennefs, Whoredoms and Blafphemy. How har¬
monious a Melody is it in the Ears of Hell, which you
have, Prov. i. 11. Come with us, let us lay wait for Blood;
let us lurk privily for the Innocent, without Caufe ; let us fwal-
low them up alive as the Grave, and whole as thofe that go
down into the Pit. There is not only many Devils in
one Man many Times, but even one Devil in many Men,
whereby they are fo harmonious in Profanity : He not on¬
ly would have one Man faying for himfelf. Depart from
me, 0 Lord, but he would have fuch a Voice, iffuing ifom
Societies and Corporations, Depart from us, Almighty, for
we defire not the Knowledge of thy Ways -, that whole Cities
lliould entertain Chrift after the Cuftom of the Gadarens,
praying him to depart out of their Coafts. O how ftrong-
ly does the Pulfe of Men beat toward Profanity, and all
Manner of Abomination! that not only Motives ot Reafon
from Virtue and Honefty, but even Bonds of Religion are
broken afunder. Heaven and Earth oftentimes mourn for
Compaflion over thele who boalt themfelves of their Heart’s
Defire, and blefs them whom the Lord abhorreth. I mud
appeal to Honour itfelf, and ask, whether it were much for
Reputation, that this Ihould be the Records of Hiltory con¬
cerning you, that you were given to Drunkennefs, Un¬
cle a nnefs
eternal PerJitiort; and tlie Devil makes a profperous Pr<>-
fanity a Temptation to the Children of God toturnafide,
and make Choice of theirDelufions : When a Believer feeth
Profanity rejoicing, enjoying as it were the Cool of the
Day, while he endureth the Heat of it, he is tempted to
fay, with Afaph, Pfal. Ixxiii. Surely 1 have cleanfed tnyfelf
in vain, and wa[hen my Hands in Innocency. As it is a love¬
ly thing, in the Eyes of God and his People, to lee them
going up in Tribes to give Thanks to the Lord, fo it is a
pleafant thing, in the Eyes of the Prince of Darknefs, to
fee his Servants go forth by Bands, to fee them join toge¬
ther, and break their Sleep, that they may give themfelves
to Drunkennefs, Whoredoms and Blafphemy. How har¬
monious a Melody is it in the Ears of Hell, which you
have, Prov. i. 11. Come with us, let us lay wait for Blood;
let us lurk privily for the Innocent, without Caufe ; let us fwal-
low them up alive as the Grave, and whole as thofe that go
down into the Pit. There is not only many Devils in
one Man many Times, but even one Devil in many Men,
whereby they are fo harmonious in Profanity : He not on¬
ly would have one Man faying for himfelf. Depart from
me, 0 Lord, but he would have fuch a Voice, iffuing ifom
Societies and Corporations, Depart from us, Almighty, for
we defire not the Knowledge of thy Ways -, that whole Cities
lliould entertain Chrift after the Cuftom of the Gadarens,
praying him to depart out of their Coafts. O how ftrong-
ly does the Pulfe of Men beat toward Profanity, and all
Manner of Abomination! that not only Motives ot Reafon
from Virtue and Honefty, but even Bonds of Religion are
broken afunder. Heaven and Earth oftentimes mourn for
Compaflion over thele who boalt themfelves of their Heart’s
Defire, and blefs them whom the Lord abhorreth. I mud
appeal to Honour itfelf, and ask, whether it were much for
Reputation, that this Ihould be the Records of Hiltory con¬
cerning you, that you were given to Drunkennefs, Un¬
cle a nnefs
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