“ Would you have him terrible to Charles, James, and Monmouth too? then you should bring yourselves under engagements to the most High: let us never imagine that ever a party in Scotland will thrive that ever our Lord will give success to a party even using lawful means till they vow to the Lord, and endeavour to perform: but you may say, did not that party who first appeared in the fields 1666, renew the covenant at Lanark, and yet they were broker yea, and never looked so hopeful like after that as before? ”

“ I bid not a badder mark: of a man or woman than this, that they are,not a prey—God be thanked we are at this day, that any man may shoot us, we think it our glory—These that are free to buy and sell and go to the kirk and market at this time have their freedom at a dear rate. We are a prey and captives, they have both men and women in prison, and all according, to their law ”

“ William Guthrie, for he speaks clearly of what is now our lot, as things that we look to is said by, great men, multitudes of men, ministers and professors, indeed it is sad to think on the ways they have gone: ay, there is many ministers now who are saying, Yonder people will get leave to stand and fall by themselves, none will join with them ”

“ He is not known to be the Lord now; he is but mocked, slighted, and, lightly esteemed; but when he comes to execute justice and judgement, he will make all know that he is the Lord, the Redeemer of his people, and that his loving kindness hath been remaining with them all along; and be who they will, whom the Lord will raise up to execute judgement in this land, they will reward them as they rewarded us, they will not spare; as he lives he will bring cruel foreigners ere he want. ”

“ That it is incident and caseable to the church and people of God, not only to be a prey, but to be a prey unto toe hands of these that are very mighty, strong and terrible like, for so the words will bear; we may say our persecutors are stronger than we; if we were as strong as they, we would laugh at them, and would but play with them ”

“ Some would invert this, they would first have salvation, and then contending with the enemies; but that is not the way that God minds to take, and therefore it will not prosper, take it who will; both ministers and professors God hath to contend with, when he comes back to Scotland, to contend with them that contended with his people. Many think that if we had such an army as they had the last year, we would contend with them:———the Lord God of Hosts will contend with them ere long, and he will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh. ”

“ Welsh's serious solicitations he was pressured with to accept a licence from some of the outed mister, who had not complied with the indulgence, and were as yet preaching the gospel in the fields. And having preached occasionally with Mr. Welsh and others, several places of the western shires, and finding the people warmest and affected by his doctrine by the good hand of God blessing the word; he adventured sometimes the Lord assisted him, to be express and clear in desiring the sinfulness of the indulgence ”

“ O but, poor people they are such disheartened and discouraged they think that no means will do good: now if we would acknowledge that we have walked contrary to him and he to us, Lev. xxvi. (illegible text) 41. he would soon appear: and if ye ask how I can speak so confidently of the Lord's appearing and contending with his enemies now, when there is so little appearance of it?—I answer, There is more appearance of it now than there was in the beginning of June last year, for as great an army as ye had (before the break of Bothwell) : if ye would draw near to God he would draw near to you ”

“ I know no reason of their being put to the worse, but this, and I dare say it in my Masters name, and in his strength make it out, That the reason of the covenant then sworn to had no success, was because they still took in the king's interest, notwithstanding he had declared himself a stated enemy to Jesus Christ and his interest. ”