for Scotland, St George for England, St Patrick for Ireland, St Denys for France, St James for Spain,

nifters, filent fabbaths, and closed church-doors, till they be opened again for the mafs, or at leaft for the English fervice; which yet will be but an expedient for a time to prepare us for Popery.

2. Liberty and property is ruined. We muft lay our account with French government. Our all muft be at the dif pofal of our arbitrary prince, whose will must be our law, to ufe us and what is ours according to his pleasure. to his pleasure. We must no longer look for the liberty of free-born fubjects, but muft be content to be flaves; and our laws may be burnt, for all law then must be locked up in the breaft of the prince. And the doctrine of paffive obedience and non-resistance, that enj flaving notion, niuft be quietly learned.

3. Ourselves and our families are ruined in our fouls and bodies, or both. We muft lay our account to feel the teeth, of the Babylonian beaft, to swim in blood to glut the fcarletcoloured whore, already drunk with the blood of the faints. The Papifts are a bloody generation, and we may expect to fee our land filled with blood and defolation, if the Lond deliver us into the hand of the wild beast. Let us look about us, and take notice of their cruelties exercifed upon the churches of Chrift, to awaken us to a fenfe of our danger from that bloody generation.

In the valley of Piedmont they raised a moft barbarous per fecution against the church, where fimple death would have been a great kindnefs. But fome were flayed alive, and fome buried alive; the mouths of fome were filled with gun-pow der, and then fired. They beat out the brains of fome, then fried and eat them. They ript up women, fixed them on fpits, roafted them, and ate their breafts. Maids were carried by the foldiers with fpits fuck up through them, in fants were taken out of their cradles, and torn to pieces. I am not speaking, my brethren, of devils, but of Papifts..

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In Calabria they drave them out of their houfes to the woods and mountains. The aged and children that could not flee, they murdered by the way, purfuing the reft like wild beafts. Thofe that could recover the mountains, being on the top of rocks, befought their enemies to let them but out of the country, and they would leave them their towns and eftates. But the barbarian Papists would not hearken, but still cried, Kill, kill. Eighty had their throats cut, and then

&c. And that god-making power that is in the Pope and his cardinals to canonize any deceafed perfon

they were quartered, and fet upon ftakes all along the way for the fpace of thirty miles.

In the valley of Loyfe all the inhabitants, being about thirty thousand, fled, upon the approach of the Papifts, to the clifts and caves of the rocks and mountains, whither their enemies pursued them, and fet on fire great quantities of wood at the mouth of the caves; fome were forced to leap out, and were broken to pieces falling over the precipice; the reft were ftifled, among whom were found four hundred infants.

In the maffacre of Ireland there perifhed above 150,000, fome fay, 154,000 Proteftants, in a few months, men, women, and children. Some they buried alive, with their heads above the ground. Others they ripped up, tied the end of their guts to trees, and forced them round about till their guts were fo drawn out of bodies. Infants were held up on their fwords and daggers to fprawl there. Children were forced to murder their parents, women to hang their own hufbands, and mothers to drown their own children; and when they had fo far fatisfied the bloody beafts, they were murdered themselves. The pofterity of thefe murderers ftill fubfift, and may be got over, if an occafion offer here..

But if ye will believe our Jacobites, the French are a more civil fort of Papifts. O horrible civility! Are not the galleys a civil fort of bufinefs, the breaking on the wheel, and the dragooning, all ufed by this prefent tyrant? Can we reflect without horror on their blowing up men and women with bellows till they be ready to burft, pulling off the nails of fingers' and toes, sticking them with pins from head to foot, &c. beating twelve drums about the beds of the fick, &c. till they' fhould change their religion? It is not many years fince a company of these poor people being met in a barn, the barn was befet by foldiers, and fet on fire; and when any put out á hand to efcape, the foldiers were ready to cut it off, till they were confumed.

In the Netherlands 18,coo were dispatched. The laws of the inquifition there were, that if they recanted, women were to be buried alive, and men killed with the fword. If they would not recant, they were to be burnt. So that denying the faith will not always do with them. So in Ireland they murdered them after they had got them to abjure.

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they think worthy, may fill the world with them, Gods they have almoft for every disease. What wonder then that the command is fo particular?

a fimple death will not fatisfy them, but barbarous cruelty, yea and villanies worfe than death, as binding husbands and fathers to bed-posts till they abufed their wives and daughters before them, which was done in the dragooning under this prefent tyrant in France, and in the maffacre.in Ireland. Now, upon all this let me notice a fourfold infatuation.

1. Are not thofe infatuated, who being Proteftants are for bringing a Popith pretender to the throne, or are indifferent about it? Will the laws bind him, and secure us? But had not the Proteftants in France fuch a fecurity, when thirty thoufand of them were mafficred in thirty days? and the Proteftants in Ireland too. Will we bind him with terms? Had not the Suffolk men Queen Mary's promife ere the came to the throne? Had not the church of Scotland King Charles II: by folemn oath of the covenant? Will we flatter ourfelves with hopes of his becoming Proteftant? Is it not known that a little before his pretended father came to the crown, fome were put to trouble for faying he was a Papift? Look to the flames of martyrs in England in Queen Mary's days, in whofe reign, and her father's, eight thouland were put to death. Let us call to mind the cruelty of our own Queen Mary, and with what fatisfaction the beheld from the cattle of Edinburgh the dead bodies of her Proteftant fubjects laid out by the French on the walls of Leith.

2. Is not that averfion to the Hanover, fucceffion an infatuation, while no other way under heaven appears for our prefervation and that of the Proteftant religion? They will tell you, What is Hanover better than a Papift, and what is the difference betwixt confubftantiation and tranfubftantiation? Papifts and Jacobites have fpread this. But Proteftants ought to honour that family, feeing it was but the prefent Duchels dowager's father and mother that loft the kingdom of Bohe mia for the Proteftant religion, with whofe lofs of that kingdom the Proteftant religion was loft there, and for them many a prayer was long put up by the church of Scotland in our forefathers days. And thould we grudge God's giving that family a kingd,, that lost one for his caufe? As for the difference betwixt confubftantiation and tranfubftantiation, there is one, that the Lutherans do not worship the facrament, And feeing it was an error in which the Lord left Luther

Lastly, Because the Lord has (fo to fpeak) a particular zeal for his own worship, and againit idolatry.

himfelf, the great inftrument of the reformation, it becomes men to be more modeft, than to reckon one no better than a Papift on that head.

3. Are not our prefent divifions an infatuation? Muft Prefbyterians be worrying one another, while the common enemy is at our doors, that will make no difference betwixt us? Muft we be breaking with one another, while we are in fuch hazard. to be all broken together? Are we not all together weak enough for our enemies? muft one party stand at a fide till they have devoured another? Herod and Pontius Pilate are become friends. The mafs and the English fervice are' contributing joint endeavours to ruin the church of Scotland. Papifts and malignants agree together against us; and fome of them will tell you,, that they would rather be Papifts than Prefbyterians. Some of them acknowledge the church of Rome a true church, but not the church of Scotland. They will have us to be no minifters, becaufe we want Epifcopal ordination, and you no Chriftians because ye are unbaptized in their account, as not being baptized by minifters having fuch ordination. And yet we must be breaking more and more among ourselves? Learn from the beafts in the ark to lay by your antipathies, They were but in hazard of drowning in a fea of water, but we in a fea of blood. I am not bidding you quit or deny any truth for peace; only do not think that it will abfolve you from what is required in the fixth commandment, that ye cannot get others racked your length, who agree with you in the main.

4. Is not our prefent fecurity an infatuation ? 'Is it not time now for fleepers to awake? is it not time now to be beftirring ourfelves in our feveral ftations for the prefervation of religion, and the getting it felt in power in our own hearts? For a bare profeffion will expofe you.

IV.. Unless the Lord give up his turtle to the multitude, all their power and force fhall not be able to hurt her. However we are befet with enemies this day, our God must give us up ere they can reach us. This is comfortable. Therefore 1.t me fay,

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1. Let make up our peace with heaven: for if God be for us, who fhall be against us ?.O that the nations were now fo wife as to repent and reform, and renew their covenant with God. We would then have ground to hope, that the

Thus he pursues them out of all their ftarting-holes. He will not allow them an image of any thing in the heaven above, of any thing under heaven, or rin the earth, or of any thing in the waters under the earth. Where then hall they have them but from hell, where the devil and damned spirits are?

Secondly, The worshipping of them is forbidden. 1. The very bowing to them is forbidden, whether it be the bowing of the whole body, bowing the knee, or bowing the head, and much more proftrating ourselves before them, and fo confequently uncovering of the head. Men may think it a small thing to ufe fuch a gesture before them, if they do not pray to them, &c.; but our jealous God forbids the loweft degree of religious worship to them, and for civil worthip they are not capable of it, as Gen. xxiii. 7.

2. The ferving of them. This implies whatfoever fervice the true God required of his worshippers, or

Lord would not give them up. But if this cannot be had, be ye fo wife each of you for yourfelves, as to lay yold on the Covenant and Mediator of peace, repent and reform; and let there be no ftanding controverfy betwixt God and you, come what will find ve Lo

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2. Let us pray much for the church of God. In the year 1588, when the Spanish armado fet off to fink England, and ruin the Proteftant religion in Britain, great was the confter nation on the fpirits of Proteftants then; but there were wreftlers then in Scotland and England, and God armed the winds and waves against them, and made that proud monarch fee that his armado was not invincible. The outpouring of the Spirit of prayer would do more this day against our enemies, than all the power of France is able to do for them.

3Laftly, Let us encourage ourselves in the Lord; prepare for the worst, yet hope that God will plead the caufe that is his. We have a good caufe, and a good God to look to, who keeps the balance in his own hand. And we have the rown. fworn enemy of Chrift, even Antichrift, to oppofe; and bet ter die in Chrift's caufe than live on Antichrift's fide; for the day is hafting on when the Roman beaft and its adherents fhall get blood to drink for the blood they have thed, Rev. xix. 17. 18. 19. 20,