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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His Father coming to him that Morning to bid hir
farewell, his la ft Words to him were, after Prayer and :
little Difcourfe, “ That his Suffering would do morehur.
to the Prelates, and be more edifying to God’s People]
than if he were to continue in the Miniftry for twenty
“ Years.” And then he defired his Father to leave him
'elfe he would but trouble him ; “ And I deftre it of you!
laid he, as the belt and laft Service you can do me, tv
go to your Chamber and pray earneftly to the Lord tc
be with me on that Scaftold; for how to carry there is
“ my Care, even that I may be ftrengthened to endure tc
“ the End.”
About two of the Clock in the Afternoon he was carri¬
ed to the Scaffold with other five that fuffered with him,
where he appeared, to the Conviction of all that former¬
ly knew him, with a fairer, better, and more ftaid Coun¬
tenance, than ever they had before obferved. Being come
to the Foot of the Ladder, he directed his Speech North-
tvard to the Multitude ; and prem.fing, “ That as his
“ Years in the World had been but few, fo his Words at
“ that Time Ihould not be many.” He fpoke to the Peo¬
ple the Speech and Teftimony which he had before writ¬
ten and fubftribed.
Having done fpeaking to the People, who heard him
with great Attention, lie fung a Part of the xxxi. Pfalm ;
and then prayed with fuch Power and Fervency, as forced
many to weep bitterly. Having ended, he gives his Cloak
and Hat from him ; and when he turned himfelf, and took
hold of the Ladder to go up, he .aid with an audible Voice,
“ I care no more to go up this Ladder and over it, than
“ if I were going home to my Father’s Houfe.” And, as
lie went up, hearing a great Noife amongft the People, he
called down to his Fellow Sufferers, faying, “ Friends and
■“ Fellow Sufferer?, be not afraid , every Step of this Lad-
dcr is a Degree nearer Heaven.” Then, having fcated
himfelf