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

what is Daniel’s Obfervation, Den ix. 12. Under the whale
Heaven it hath net been done, as hath been done ;»Jerusalem.
Neither is it any Wonder it fhould be (b ; the Children of
this World have many Refuges to fly to in a Time of Tri¬
bulation, but the Children of the Kingdom have only one ;
and though it be truly far the fafeft, yet it expofes them
to the World’s Evil fo much the more. Pfa!. xiv. 6. The
Council of the Poor is, even upon that Account, put to
flame, becaufe the Lord is his Refuge. If there be among
Enemies lb much as a Defire to be reputed religious,
they will account it a Dilgrace, that any fhould pretend
to more Tendernefs than they. Sometimes the Fountain
whence Afflidlion flows, is great Power, which the Church
of God either cannot or may not reach, Ecc/. iv. 1. 1 be¬
held the Tears of the Oppreffed, and they had no Comforter ;
i on the Side of their Opprefl'ors there was Power, but they
had no Comforter. And the Scripture doth abundantly e-
vidence, that the People of God have been perfecute, fome-
time by Pharaoh upon the Throne, fbmetime by a Ha¬
inan in the State, fometime by a Judas in the Church ;
their Yokes have been fo heavy, that it were as eafy to
remove the Sun out of the Firmament, as to remove it
from the Neck of God’s People ; and it may be the Lord
uncovereth his People, and gives loofe Reins to Adverfa-
ries to run upon them at a full Career, that they think it
below them if they do not the Church great Injury.
Eflher Hi. 3. Homan thought fcorn to lay Hands upon
> Mordecai alone, but he theught to flay all the People of
I the Jews. There is no Cloud of Protection upon God’s
5 People, to keep oflf the Malignancy of their Influences ;
i there is a Cloud of Calamities, which renders their Mifery
( fo much the more miferable, while they are made, in the
1 Opinion of the World, to fuffer as evil Doers. Reproach
i hath broken my Heart, faith David, No Wonder than tbe
E 2 People