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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p with the Lord. And now I leave off to fpeak any more
1 ‘ to Creatures, and turn my Speech to thee, O Lord !
'1 And now I begin my Intercourfe with God which fhall
r never be broken ofF. Farewell Father and Mother,
P Friends and Relations; farewell the World and all De-
“ lights ; farewell Meat and Drink ; farewell Sun, Moon
‘ and Stars : Welcome God and Father, welcome fweet
“ Lord Jefus the Mediator of the new Covenant, wel-
come blelTed Spirit )f Grace and God of all Gonfolation,
f welcome Glory, welcome eternal Life, welcome Death.”
(Then he defired the Executioner not to turn him over,
tontil he fliould put over his own Shoulders himfelf, which,
laiter praying a little within himfelf, lie did, faying, a
V Lord! into thy Hands I commit my Spirit; for thou!
*i‘ haft redeemed my Soul, Lord God of Truth.” Thus,
ai the Twenty-fixth Year of his Age, he died, as he lived,’
lin the Lord.
p’he laft Speech and Teftimony of Mr. Hew
L Mackaile, Preacher of the Gofpel and
Probationer for the Miniftry, at his Death,
in Edinburgh> December 22. 1666.
BEING, by a great Surprifal of Providence, thus ftaged
before the World, in a Matter of fo univerfal Con¬
cernment to all that fear God and delire to be ftedfaft in
liis Covenant, I could not forbear to leave behind me this
landing Teftimony, concerning the Occafion and Ufes
.hereof, for the Glory of God, in the Vindication of my
tProfelfion from the Afpeiflons caft thereon by Men, and
>tbe Edification of thofe, by my Death, to whom I had
•devoted my Life in the Work of the Miniftry.
I have efteemed the Government of this Church by
Vresbytery to be among the chief of the Ordinances of Je¬
fus
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