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

■dnfmer thereto To-morrow, and feeing in this Matter of
the highejl Importance, not only all the Time allowed is very
Jhort, hut / am, and have been ever fnce my Torture, in a
great Diflemper and Fever, befides the great Pain and ut¬
ter Inability of my Leg, which hath conflantly kept me Bed-
fajl, and doth render me incapable, not only of minding- my
own Defence, but wholly unable to walk or ftand, far left to
go and compear before the Lord Jujlice, as I doubt not but
Phyficians will teftify, if your Lordfhips will order them to
vifit me, which I humbly beg ; and feeing my Acceffion to the
Crimes libelled is fo very fender, being only fimple Prefence,
and that not only occafional, as I did declare before your Lordr
Jbips, but alfo in fame Sort re traded and purged, by my purpof-
ed and a dual Offcoming and deferting. And, Jaftly, Seeing I
was put to fore'Torture in order to a further Difcovery, with a
Promife cf Favour in Cafe of my Ingenuity, which I then fingly
ufed, as in the Sight of God to the utmofi of my Knowledge ;
May it therefore pleafeyour Lordjbips gracioufly to confider
the Premijfes, ejpecially my utter Inability to make my Ap¬
pearance, and to furceafe any legal Procedure againft me, in
this fo weak and extreme Condition, and to difcharge me of the
forefaid Citation and Appearance, and your Lordjhips Anfwer.
This Petition, and the following are therefore fet down
verbatim, that both the utmoft of his Condefcendence may
appear, and the Fainting that he lb much regretes in his
laft Speech, be the better underftood : And, with the fame
fubfcribcd by him, there was given in an Atteftation under
the Hands of feven Chirurgeons, declaring his weak and
fickly Condition.
Hereupon the Council did order two Phyficians and
two Chirurgeons, viz. Sir Robert Cuninghame, Dr. Hay,
James Borthwick, and Thomas Kincaid to vilit him, and
to return their Atteflation upon Soul and Confcience, be¬
twixt and To-morrow at Ten of the Clock, to the Jufiices.
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