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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deannefs, blafphemou's Swearing ? If the Cniifitleration of
that Shame, and everlaiting Contempt that will certainly be
poured out on all fuch, do not move you, I 1 relieve, it
would ftrike a Terror into the Hearts of many Men, ifthat
Proclamation of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. iii. 29. were iifa-
ed out. And herein, I think, he puts to lhame all theChri-
ftian Princes on Earth, upon one Demonftration of the
Power of God; I make a Decree, faith he, that every People,
Nation, Tongue and Language, which [peak any thing cmifs
of the God of Shadrach, Mefhach, c^iAbedoego, fall be cut
in Pieces, and their Houfe made a Dunghill; for there is no
God can deliver as he doth. O beware of turning alide by
the Flocks of fuch Companions; rather mourn over them.
If the Unrighteous will be unrighteous ftill, if the Filthy
will be filthy ftill, (hew ye at ieaft as much Conftancy in
the Service of God, as they do in the Service of the Devil;
let him that is righteous be righteous ftill, and he that is
holy be holy ftill.
idly. The true Companions of Jefus Chrift are not to
be followed in their Unwatchfulnefs. The Unwatchfulnefs
of one Believer, efpecially ifhe be more ftrong, is a Temp¬
tation to another Believer, efpecially ifhe be more weak,
to fall into the (ame Unwatchfulnefs; ifhe were as holy as
Paul, follow him as he is a Follower of Cbrift, and no fur¬
ther. Would to God, there were not fb much Caufe as
there is to complain, that there is too great Occafion of
Humbling given to one Chriftian by another; and that Oc¬
cafion too readily taken. That Unwatchfulnefs in our mu¬
tual Converfation is fo infe&ious, that our Deportment, one
with another, is not only without Advantage, but even to
Prejudice. How little Obedience is there to that Command ?
Heb. x. 24. Let us conjider one another, to provoke to Love
and to good JVorks. Chriftians, through Corruption, are
far more apt to kindle their Corruptions at the Corrup¬
tions of another, than their Grace at the Grace of another.
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