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

“ t0 that loved us, and wajhed ur from aur Sins in
his own Blood, and hath made us Kings and Prisfls unto
God and his Father, to him he Glory and Dominion for
ever and ever, Amen, idly. By holding forth the Love
of the Saints to Jefos Cbrift, and teaching us to love
“ him In Sincerity, which is the very Joy and Exultation
of Heaven, Rev.v. \2.IV0rthy is the Lamb that was fain
to receive Power, and Riches, andlVifdom, and Strength,
and Honour, and Glory, and Blefing. And no other
“ thing than the Soul, breathing forth Love to Jefos Chrift,
“ can rightly apprehend the Joys of Heaven.”
The lafl Words which he ipoke at Supper were in the
Commendation of Love above Knowledge ■, laying, “ O
“ but Notions of Knowledge,, without Love, are of
imall Worth, evanifhing in nothing, and very danget-
“ ous.” After Supper, his Father having given Thanks,
he read the 16th Pfalm, and his fir ft Words thereafter
w ere, “ If there were any thing in the World fadly and
u unwillingly to be left, it were the reading of the Scrip-
“ tures. Jfaid I fall not Jce the Lord, even the Lord in
“ the Land of the Living ; but this needs not make us
“ fad, for where we go the Lamb is tire Book of Scrip-
“ ture, and the Light of that City, and there is Life, e-
“ ven the River of the Water of Life, and living Springs.’'
To this he added may excellent Oblervations, and mak¬
ing mention of the 23d Verfe of the xxxi. Pfalm, 0 love
the Lord all ye his Saints, he added, “ That where Love
“ was, it was fo operative, that it made Flefh Spirit, and
“ where it was not, there Spirit was made Flefh There-
aftei he fting a Part of the fame Pfalm.
Supper being ended, he calls fmilingly for a Pen, fay¬
ing, “ It was to write his Teffament,” wherein he only
ordered fome few Books which he had to be re-delivered
to feverai Ptrfons.
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