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

This A'ternoen he fupplicate the Council for Liberty to
his Father to come and vifit him. which being granted, his
father the next Night came to him. The fir ft Meeting
was very fad ; and notwithftanding that, according both to '
the Teftimony of his Parents, and Knowledge of all his
Relations, he was a moft obedient Son, yet thefe inevitable
Infirmities which are incident to the belt of Men, and can¬
not but furnifh fad Convidtions, when confidered in the
Power and pure Light of the fpiritual Law of God, did
greatly trouble him in the Remembrance of the Fifth Com¬
mandment. The Paflage was thus. After Prayer his Fa¬
ther faid unto him, “ Hugi, I called thee a good Olive-
“ tree, of fair Fruits, and now a Storm hath deftroyed the
“ Tree, and his Fruits and Branches.” He anfwered*
“ That his Father’s too good Thoughts of him had afflicl-
“ cd him.” His Father faid, “ He was perfuaded, God
“ was viliting not his own Sin, but his Parents Sin, upon
“ him : So that he might fay, Our Fathers have finned^
“ and vje have borne-their. Iniquity.” ■ He laid alfb, “ I
“ have finned ; thou, poor Sheep, what haft thou done ?”
Mr. Hew anfwered, with many Groans, “ That, through
“ coming fcort of keeping the Fifth Commandment, he
“ had come fhort of the Prcunife, that his Days fhould be
“ prolonged in the Land of the Living ; and that God’s
“ Controverfy with him was for overvaluing his Children,
“ efpecially himfelf.”
OnThurfday the 20th of December, more from the Im¬
portunity of Friends than his own Inclination, he gave in
to the Privy Council a Petition, as follows :
‘That whereas, upon Tuefday lafl I was indifled and
condemned, for the treajonable Deeds contained in the gene¬
ral and Jpedal Indi&ment exhibited again]} me ; in the which
fpecial Indictment, containing my whole Accejfion to the faid
Crimes, there is only libelled Prefence in Jeveral Places, with
an ordinary Sward, likeas my own Confejfon, which is the
naked