I Need not trouble you much who is meant by Zion here, ye all ken it, it is the poor Kirk of Scotland, for the Kirk of Scotland is wounde [...] [...] her Head, in her Hands, in her Feet, and in her Heart.

First in her Head in the Government. 2dly. In her Hands, in the Discipline. 3dly. In her Heart, as in the Doctrine. 4thly. In her Feet, as in the Worship.

First, The Kirk of Scotland is wounded in her Head, she has gotten sik a Clash in her Head, as has gart all her Harns jaap, and her Senses, that is, her Sense of Seeing; for the Kirk of Scotland wald a seen als well as any C [...]ristian Kirk in the wyd Warld, but now she cannot distinguish between whyt and black; For bring but Pepery before her, and she cannot discern between that and the true Religion.

Secondly, She is wounded in her Hearing: The Kirk of Scotland could a Heard and Distinguish­ed, out sen the Organs were brought in, she has grown as Deaff as a Door-Nail.

Thirdly, The Kirk of Scotland coud a sin [...] as well as any Kirk in the Warld, but the [...] is [Page]of Rome smelt so strangly, that she could a ta [...] you, she smell'd of the Whore of Babel; Bu [...] now bring the stinkenest Pepery to the Kirk [...] Scotland, and it will smell to her as sweet as a [...] Apple: Now poor Spectacle! ye have seen he [...] Hands, and her sare Legs; A wofull Object pity her if ye will: What say ye to the Cureing of her Senses; but some will tell, she is in as good a Case as ever she was. I'le tell you how sae,

First, The Kirk of Scotland sees better than ever she did before; the Kirk of Scotland say her Ministers in good little short Cloaks, wi [...] black Velvet Necks, and their little Cloa [...] turned mae Sauls to God, nor ever the Ia [...] Gowns did; but ye shall see the Prydful Prelats harled up and down the Town in Co [...]s, as in as many muck Carts; that is a bra sight indeed.

Secondly, The Kirk of Scotland Tastes better then ever she did, and how sae? I'le tell you, a good Minister wald a been content of a Dish of plain Milk and Bread, humble Meat indeed, but our Prelats now, will have a Lick of the best o [...] it: So ye see the Kirk of Scotland Tastes bet­ter then ever she did, and I have done with h [...] Senses.

Now, I'le tell you, how she is wounded in he [...] Hands, and that I call the Discipline of the Kirk. For,

First, They fflichtered the Kirk of Scotland ye ken well they use to flighter Theives and Runaways; the Kirk of Scotland was baith.

1st. She was a Runaway, and that was the Glorious time of Reformation, when she came [...]lear awa fra Rome, and hard did they follow [...]er, and fain wald they been at her, but and [Page]they had gotten their will, she wald a been sure of her Ladetties, or to speak more plainly of her Dichells, but God be thanked they did not oretake her.

2dly. The Kirk of Scotland is a Theif, alas she has gane to Rome, and has stown awa the Trash and Trumpery, as the Books of Common Prayer and Cannons, wallawa! But what trou ye she is flichterd with, but with a Silken Threed and a Cannonical Obedience to their Ordinary, and wow but we have taken great delight to be bound: We had once a bonny Kirk, but after they got us fast, they made the silken Threed a Cable-Tow, with which they girded us so fast that we could not sae much as fidge, but either we must run into the Danger of blind Obedience on the one side, to accept of all Idolatry and Supersti­tious Cerimonies they imposed on us, or on the the other hand, be Mensworn Men; Na, the Kirk of Scotland is sae wounded in her Hands, that thir Twenty Years bygane, she coud not make her Hummock in a cald day, for the Kirk of Scotland thir Twenty Years bygane, coud not have a Meeting in a Lawful Assembly; and so I have done with her Hands: Now I come to tell you how, how she is wounded in her Feet; and that I call the Worship of the Kirk of Scotland.

The Kirk of Scotland was a bonny trotting Naig, but then she ttotted sae hard, that never a Man durst rid her, but the Bishops, wha after they gat on on her Back, Corss langed her and Hapshackled her, and when she became a bonny pacing Beast, they took great pleasure to Ride on her, but their Cadging her up and down from Edinburgh to London, and it may be from Rome [Page]too, gave her sik a het Coat, that we have these Twelve Months bygane been stirring her up and down to keep her faae foundying; Yea, tha [...] made not only a Horse but an Ass of the Kirk [...] Scotland: How sae quo ye? what mean ye b [...] this? I'le tell you how, they made Balaams A [...] of her, ye ken well enough, Balaam was go [...] an unluckie gait, and first the Angel met [...] in a broad way, and then the Ass bogled [...] startled, but Balaam got by the Angel, and [...] her and Battand her sufficiently, that was wh [...] Episcopacy came in, and then they gave th [...] Kirk of Scotland her Paiks; Afterward Bala [...] met the Angel in a strait gait, and then she star [...] led more then before; but Balaam till her [...] gain and whaked her soundly, that, was whe [...] the five Articles of Perth were brought in [...] ▪ The third time the Angel met Balaam in fa [...] strait a gait, that the Ass could not win by; and then it pleased the LORD to open blind Balaams Eyes, and that is this happy days wark: Now GOD has opened all our Eyes, we were like blind Balaam, ganging an unluckie gait and Riding post to Rome, and what was gotten behind him upon the Ass, wat ye? I'le tell you, there was a Pockmanty; And what was in it trou ye? but the Book of Cannons and of Com­mon Prayer, and the High Commission; But as soon as the Ass sees the Angel, she falls a fling­ing and a plunging, and oregangs the Pockmanty, and it hings by the string on the one side, and aff-gaes blind Balaam, and he hings by the Hough on the other side; and fain wald the Carle been on the Sadle again, and been con­tent to leave his Pockmanty. But Beloved, let [Page]not the false Swingour get on again, for if he get on agai [...] he will be sure to get on his Pock man­ty also.

The 4th Wound the Kirk of Scotland got was in her Heart, and that I tald you was the Doct­rine of the Kirk of Scotland, and that is Peperie and Arinianism, whilk is sae ryfe in our Schools and Kirks; ney, are there not some of you that are siting here and hears me, wha wald not a wisht your selves a Hundred times to a been out of the Kirk, when ye heard the Peltrie Stuff that came frae them. Ye have heard many times Brethren (Compared together) the Kirk and our Lord Jesus, for he is the Head, and the Kirk is the Body, and that our Saviour ere he enter­ed the Ministry he was carryed by Luciter (God save us) to the Wilderness where he was Temp­ted of the Meikle Devil, then he was Rejected and let light of by all; But as soon as he began to work his Miracles, he was carried up to Je­rusalem in Triumph, there was nothing in their Mouths then, but Hosanna's, Blest is he that comes in the Name of the Lord, but the next News that they heard, in they came with Halbarts and Jothard Stalves frac the High Preist to appre­hend him; just sae is it with the Poor Kirk of Scot­land, for this year bygain she has sitten Desolate and in the Wilderness cotemned, nothing cared for by man, and now is the Glorious Day, she is Rydding in Triumph to Jerusalem, now there is nothing in all Mouths but Hosanna's, but take heed when they come with Swords and Stalves frae the Hight Priest, that some do not with Peter shaw a pair of Heels and forsake her.

They have not only made an Ass of the Kirk [Page]of Scotland but they have betrayed her, ye h [...] wha betrayed our Saviour, they betrayed hi [...] that were silent in sae good a Cause, they b [...] trayed him that accused him, that Judged him they betrayed him that forsook him; but whe [...] will ye find the false Judas all the while? an [...] now I'le tell you a Tale, I dar not say it is tru [...] but ye shall have it as I have it; When I w [...] [...] little Boy at the School, there was a Hop [...] Theologue, wha is now na small Man in [...] Land, and being to Preach the very same Wor [...] of Judas, What will ye give me and I will betr [...] him? The young Man Learned his Text sae w [...] that he could a tald it baith in Latine and Sc [...] Quid mihi dabitis & ego Tradum illum? what w [...] ye give me and I will betray him? There was [...] Good-man Sitting at the Foot of the Poupit, was standing up looking in his Face, said, Marie [...] give you a good Fat Bishoprick, and then I a [...] sure ye will betray him, say ye sae; Wha ha [...] Betrayed the Kirk of Scotland? I need not te [...] you, but the Kirk of Scotland was once an Bo [...] nie Kirk and a Bonnie Gramar School, and well [...] wat, she had Skill in Regimen & Concordenti [...] and could a made a peice of Bonnie Latine, an [...] for every thing she was forced to da Regula [...] and when she offended she was sure of pan [...] Manum; But afterwards when she went to the College she had mair Liberty, and first of all she began to Rhetorick, but instead of proper speaking she Learned nothing but Hyperboles and Allegories, then she came into the Logick, and in stead of true Demonstrations she Learned nothing but Homonimaes and Captious Sylogisms, after­wards she came to Aethicks, but she did not [Page]trouble her self meikle with them, but Studied the Politicks, and that sae well, that she turned all Religion into Meer flat Policy: for Metaphy­sicks she kens they are Ens, and that must be unum, verum, bonum, and that all these three must be in true Religious, but this was too high a Theme for her, wherefore she studied more the Physicks and turned all into Materia prima, and made it self Capable of any Form they pleased to Impose upon us.

After he had done with Sermon and Prayer, then stood he up to give the Blessing, and there­after said as follows.
‘I ken well enough it is not the Fashion of this place to Speak any thing after Prayer, but because I had meikle to say, and one thing dang another out of my [...]ead, wherefore I must beg Leave to add a Word or twa.’

AND first of all, I will speak to you who are the Members of the College of Justice, and why I pray you, will not ye Subscrive the Co­venant? ye will say to me, ye are Imployed by His Majesty in some special Affairs, and you cannot with your Honour Subscrive the Covenant; This is a bra Answer indeed, there is not the Meanest Man that gathers up Twenty Merks for the King per Annum, but may have this Hole to go out at, then we shall have a bra Subscriving, yea, yea, there is but one Man between God and you, get by that Man, and get to God.

And in the second place, Why do not ye No­blemen Subscrive the Covenant? ye will say noli me tangere, Howsoever I'le give you a Touch, It may be you will be put to it, ye will fay, we must Ride in Parliament Order, the mean­est [Page]man must go foremost and Subscrive the C [...] venant, and then we will come after, that i [...] bra Answer indeed, you have a Fashion in t [...] S [...]uth part of Scotland, that wh [...]n ye come to [...] Foord, the Jackman must venter over first [...] pon his weak weary Naig, and if he can go an [...] come back again, then up comes the Laird mounted on his Stately Steed and over goes [...] this is no Right, But we that are Highlanders have a better Fashon, for we usually come [...]n Foot, and when we come to the Foord we ar [...] loth to leave a Man; therefore we join Oxst [...] to Oxster, and Arm to Arm, and Loups al [...] gether in the Foord, and if one Drown all Drowns even so here, set your Hands to the Covenant, and if an perish, let all perish.

Now, I'le speake a word to you of the Town of Edinburgh; and albeit I see two of your Chief Chayrs empty, yet have at you; And why do you not subscrive the Covenant? It may be you will say, ye are in Office now, stay till the next Year till your Office be out, then ye will subscrive the Covenant; That is a bra An­swer indeed, it may be God will get this wark done ere the next Year: What will your Thanks be then? get your Clerk Register and look over your Rolls, and see if ever the Town of Edin­burg suffered for joining with the Kirk of Scotland.

Last of all, I have a mind to Speak a Word to you who are Strangers, and then Turning himself about to the place where the Proveist and Baillies of Aberdeen Sat; And what is the reason ye subscrive not the Covenant? It may be ye will say, [...]e came here about your Civil Affairs; and when ye came out [...]e re­solved not to Subscrive the Covenant, will re take my Advice. I say Abvrdeens-men will you take your Word again, and go home and Drink the Cup of Bon [...]ccord, and join to the Kirk of S [...]otland and subscrive the Covenant, and so farewell.