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<HEAD><HI>Vrim and Thummim.</HI> LIGHT and TRUTH. Being the two la&s;t SERMONS. Preached by Mr, JOHN GUTHRY, <HI>July</HI> 17. 1669, in reference to Indulgence.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 43.3.</HI></BIBL> O &s;end down thy Light and thy Truth.</Q>
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<P>_IT hath ever been one of the &s;weetning Ingredients of a &s;ad lot ever to the Church, or to the Lord's Friends, to have freedom from Darkne&s;s, and to be admitted to walk in his Light; And where that hath been wanting, it's ground of complaint for it &s;elf, tho there were no affliction be|&s;ide on the body or &s;pirits of his People: For whether con&s;idered in it &s;elf, or in the cau&s;e or effects of it, there are few &s;trokes comparable to this, when one &s;ays, <HI>I &s;it in darkne&s;s, and have no light;</HI> or this, <HI>He is like to take his Truth from me:</HI> Therefore is it that his People plead, <HI>Tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> not thy Truth utterly from me.</HI> I believe none could tell what his People could do next, and therefore when this &s;troke befalls his Peo|ple, we reckon it their greate&s;t affliction. Hence <HI>Jeremy, I am the Man that hath &s;een Affliction.</HI> And here it is that his People, when under this, pleads for a removal of it, as it's here; <HI>And &s;end down thy Light, and thy Truth.</HI></P>
<P>From this Ver&s;e you may conceive what was the P&s;almi&s;t's ca&s;e, and that at this time he had no acce&s;s to the Hill of God, and would have fain been there; and cleanly there he is in this d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fficulted, w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ich ye may gather from the fir&s;t Ver&s;e, to wit, the Men he had to do with, de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eit|ful
<PB N="2" REF="2"> and unju&s;t men, and given to no &s;mall oppre&s;&s;ion. The remembrance of whilk party makes him afraid of &s;nares, and therefore deals he with God, that he would waird off &s;nares. I would fain have Ordinances, but if I get them not as hone&s;tly as I was put from them, it will even be the wor&s;e; but if I could win to Light and Truth from God, to be directed in his way, then would I &s;ay, O when &s;hall I win again to the Sanctua|ry! And it could not be objected, Ye are here, but not with foul fingers, but cleanly. O then what a &s;hout &s;hould I give of prai&s;e in the Temple!</P>
<P>Now while he &s;ets him&s;elf to deal with God for &s;o de&s;irable a mercy: &s;o in the confideration of his &s;ingle dependance on God for Light, he ex|po&s;tulates with his &s;oul for its de&s;pondency.</P>
<P>Now from the&s;e words, which are a Prayer and Reque&s;t, wherein we would have you con&s;idering the thing prayed for, that is, Light and Truth; which &s;uppo&s;es &s;ome pre&s;ent choak of Darkne&s;s and hazard is feared. The thing prayed and waited for, is God's Light and Truth, no other being &s;ufficient to direct but that which is founded on God's truth in the Scriptures, whereby we lay a&s;ide the light within folk, &s;poken &s;o much of by &s;ome, it's but one Prayer, but one full coming out, from a heart touched with the &s;en&s;e of the want and de&s;irablene&s;s of the thing he is pleading for, and &s;aid he, <HI>any &s;troke but darkne&s;s,</HI> and, <HI>Lord</HI> (&s;ays he) <HI>Light mu&s;t be ha&s;tned, and Truth mu&s;t be ha&s;tned,</HI> for we know not how &s;oon we will be put to it. And among&s;t all things we are under we pitch on Light and Truth, as the only thing de&s;irable, therefore &s;end out both. And this is the third thing in the words; Lord, would he &s;ay, if we get not Light and Truth, we will get a wrong Leader; and no other but thy Light, and thy Truth acknowledg we for a Guide.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, From what is pleaded here, <HI>Light and Truth,</HI> we told you by this Prayer Darkne&s;s was &s;uppo&s;ed. Whence ob&s;erve,</P>
<P>That many times the People of God are in Darkne&s;s, &s;o that &s;ometimes they neither know what to &s;ay, nor what to do. Jer. 3.2. <HI>Thou ha&s;t led me into Darkne&s;s and not to Light.</HI> In &s;peaking to this I &s;hall hint at this, What are the things his People are left in Darkne&s;s anent? and what are the Rea&s;ons of it? And fir&s;t, It's an ordinary ca&s;e to his People to be left in darkne&s;s in order to their intere&s;t, &s;o as they cannot give any believing account thereof. This ca&s;e is more ordinary than that which is ordina|rily laid to heart. What &s;orer ca&s;e than to have the whole Heavens dark|ned above your head? I &s;hall &s;peak to this how this comes to pa&s;s.</P>
<P N="1">1. I think folks have never been at &s;o much pains as to get clear light
<PB N="3" REF="2"> and truth anent the thing, they have not brought their heart under that uncontroverted way of debating what is &s;ufficient for them to re&s;t on.</P>
<P N="2">2. A &s;econd thing that helps to darken Folks anent their Intere&s;t, they keep not &s;o up with God after clearing of their Intere&s;t as they did before they wan to it. Folks laid by the liveline&s;s of their exerci&s;e of &s;pirit after they wan to &s;ome a&s;&s;urance of Intere&s;t. When ye walked with him, ye walked under the light of his countenance.</P>
<P N="3">3. Folks are not careful to pitch on their Evidences of Intere&s;t, and clear them to our &s;elves. It's a &s;trange thing that we can lay weight on any word in all the Bible for our Intere&s;t, and not have it as clear to us as the Sun. Therefore it were good folks were con&s;idering their hazard of living in darkne&s;s.</P>
<P>A &s;econd thing wherein the Lord's People are often found in darkne&s;s, is in order to the finding him out in the day of his ab&s;ence. Thus the Bride in the <HI>Song, Saw ye him whom my &s;oul loveth?</HI> I have been &s;eeking him in this and that duty, and cannot find him. O if there be any body that has skill where he is or can be found, will ye ea&s;e my heart, &s;orely oppre&s;&s;ed for the want of him, &s;o as to tell me where I may find him. I think it were very de&s;irable to &s;ee his People under &s;uch a ca&s;e as this is. If the &s;hedding had bin more &s;ad, there had bin hope of a more joyful meeting. I think there has been a very dry-like &s;hedding on our part; tho he has given many a Husband-like look over his &s;houlder, yet have they not had that &s;trength to draw a Wife-like look to a withdrawing Husband. This is a piece of darkne&s;s they fell under in order to the knowing where he is.</P>
<P N="3">3. Darkne&s;s falls &s;ometimes on his People in order to their pre&s;ent du|ty. And this is no &s;mall piece of darkne&s;s, either when it falls on his Church, or on his People: in particular, it's a de&s;irable thing when their way is hedged up that they &s;hall not find their Lovers, but O &s;ad, when their way is hedged up with hewen &s;tones that they cannot find their pre|&s;ent duty! &s;o as ye cannot find a man in all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> that can &s;ay, This is our duty. But there is one or two things that makes this ca&s;e hopeful. Fir&s;t, when darkne&s;s is an affliction on folks &s;pirits; and, 2dly, when folks know not what do do, yet then they betake them&s;elves to God, to wait on him till he appoint their work to them. O that it may not be found with us as it was betwixt <HI>Saul</HI> and <HI>Samuel,</HI> a little time more would have done it. And next, this is a token for good under darkne&s;s, that till God point out their duty to them, their eyes are towards God. <HI>We know not what to do, but our eyes are towards thee.</HI> O the Athei&s;m that our hearts broach in dark times.</P>
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<P>A third thing wherein his People are &s;ometimes found under darkne&s;s is, in order to the uptaking of &s;ome piece of Truth, that relates not only to their Intere&s;t but their Comfort. So the Di&s;ciples went to <HI>John, We know not what he &s;aith.</HI> Sometimes &s;uch a que&s;tion as that &s;hews the Fa|ther, <HI>How wilt thou manife&s;t thy &s;elf to us, and not to the World?</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Sometimes his People are under darkne&s;s, in order to the making out of &s;ome particular Promi&s;es, that &s;ometimes they have been made to believe, &s;o as they dare venture to &s;ay, <HI>Doth his Promi&s;e fail for ever?</HI> It had been as fit for them to &s;ay, <HI>My heart, and my &s;trength, and my fle&s;h fails; but he is the portion of my heart for ever.</HI> Ye remember what <HI>David</HI> &s;aid, <HI>Surely one day I &s;hall peri&s;h by the hand of Saul.</HI> There is one thing or two that makes folk to utter this language, or helps to breed in the heart &s;uch things as this flows from. 1. When the Lord removes all out of their &s;ight, by which they conclude he would fulfil his Promi&s;es, and when the&s;e means and ways mi&s;gives them, then their hope gets a &s;et. 2. When the Lord is all along in the way of his Di&s;pen&s;ations &s;trengthning things, whereby his Intere&s;t is weakned; &s;ometimes &s;trengthens the hands of the enemies, &s;o as nothing they contrive but they get it brought to pa&s;s, and weakens his Friends &s;o, as &s;ometimes when the Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d's Friends were ma|ny, then were his People's &s;pirits rai&s;ed with lively expectation, but when the&s;e are taken away their &s;pirits begin to &s;ink.</P>
<P N="5">5. There are &s;ometimes Di&s;pen&s;ations his People are left in the dark anent, albeit they be in them&s;elves very &s;ignifying, and which he wills his People to read what is &s;ignified by them, yet his people often will be in &s;uch a ca&s;e as they can neither reade what is in them, nor what to make of them, as the wa&s;hing of the Di&s;ciples feet, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly; I apprehend if <HI>Scotland</HI>'s ca&s;e this day be &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered, and compared with its ca&s;e in the day of its bowing it &s;elf to God, it will be found that there is an unknown Cloud &s;etten down on the Prophets of <HI>Scotland.</HI> I think they are happy who have not gotten a touch of that darkne&s;s that has over&s;pread our Land. Thar <HI>Scotland</HI> is yet under the Cloud, I will point at two or three things that ordinarily attends a dark time. Fir&s;t, If it be light with us, how comes it that we &s;ee the mo&s;t part po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with &s;o much diffidence as to the truth of the way they walk in, in the day of the light of <HI>Scotland.</HI> Our Prophets had confidence, our people had confidence in the way they were in, that it was the way of Truth. I am not &s;aying there is none, yet but few in re&s;pect of the generality, they are groping, finding about with their hands to grip the oldmarks.</P>
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<P>A &s;econd &s;ymptom of Darkne&s;s is this: Ye know it's ordinary when folks walk in the night, they are afraid, &s;o that there's not the courage, boldne&s;s, fulne&s;s and freedom of &s;pirit that his People were of when they had light. Many put their hands to things they are afraid of. How comes this to pa&s;s? it was not &s;o when the Sun of <HI>Scotland</HI> was not run under the Cloud. How comes it that duty is to many as that whereof they are afraid, and would hide from all, that none &s;hould know what they were about, it's lamentable; that in the&s;e things, we &s;ay, are du|ties approven of God, has te&s;timonies in their bo&s;oms, yet when the Lord will open us up in the&s;e, we look like folks that were taken at an ill turn in the night.</P>
<P N="4">4. Ye know in the night folk know not where to &s;et down their feet; &s;tumbling-blocks are not &s;een and di&s;cerned: as in the night you will not &s;ee a &s;tone in your gate, here one falling, and there another fal|ling, and one falling over another. The&s;e things may convince us that Darkne&s;s has over-taken us. We have faln as tho&s;e who have been walk|ing in &s;lippery places &mdash; ever &s;ince Darkne&s;s has been our ca&s;e: is there any duty that remains for &s;uch? And here I &s;hall point at two or three things: Fir&s;t, that we would believe the thing, and look on it as one of the &s;adde&s;t things that has befaln us, and &s;ad Ingredients in the Cup of our Affliction. There are &s;ome things by which we may be helped to con&s;ider the &s;adne&s;s of the thing; one is this, We need never go further off to prove that the Sun of Righteou&s;ne&s;s is not &s;hining in its brightne&s;s among&s;t us. Where he is &s;hining in the horizon of his People, there is no darkne&s;s. But this Truth is holden true to <HI>Scotland.</HI> Wo be to you when he departs from you 2. Con&s;ider that when he contends by this &s;troke with his People, he in a manner ranks them with Enemies, and counts them not as Friends. For this is one of the &s;trokes he brings on them, <HI>Jer.</HI> 23.12. <HI>to make them walk in &s;lippery places, as in the night, and to &s;tumble and fall, &amp;c.</HI> And it's &s;ad when he is provoked to &s;trike with the &s;ame &s;trokes he u&s;es to &s;trike the eminente&s;t of his Enemies with. 3. This may &s;hew how &s;ad this &s;troke of darkne&s;s is, it ca&s;ts all his People loo&s;e every one to &s;eek a &s;everal way, as the night does people. This is a &s;ad Con&s;ideration, when we remember how much we are divided, and &s;ub|divided. How is this come to pa&s;s? our night is come on, and it's a con&s;equent of our darkne&s;s, that makes it a &s;ad and deplorable condition, that every one is groping to meet the road through darkne&s;s, and never any two keeping the gate almo&s;t together. 4. The evil of this ca&s;e may
<PB N="6" REF="4"> be pointed out by this, that it brings them to be &s;omewhat in a nearer capacity to that which they were before they were in Covenant with God. <HI>Sometimes were you darkne&s;s, but now are ye light in the Lord.</HI> But O how &s;ad then it may be &s;aid, Sometimes were ye light, but now are ye dark|ne&s;s, and &s;o, as we are become the reproach of all Nations! 5. Con&s;i|der how like it makes a Church or Per&s;on to tho&s;e that are thru&s;t into Hell it &s;elf, where is utter darkne&s;s. Folks brought under a dark ca&s;e, are like &s;uch who are finding as it were a piece of Hell creeping on upon their &s;ouls; it's &s;uch a Plague as when once it enters into the heart, and &s;eizeth on it, it gives being to all the evils that lodge in the heart.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. I would &s;ay this to &s;uch who are under this ca&s;e, While there is any light remaining, endeavour to hold hand to &s;trengthen the things that remain, that are ready to die; le&s;t ye become like the Woman to the King of <HI>I&s;rael, My Spark &s;hall be put out.</HI> Are there Convictions coming along&s;t and vi&s;iting your &s;ouls? is any thing &s;poken to you from the Word or Di&s;pen&s;ations? entertain it, le&s;t your Spark in <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be quenched. O &s;ave one eye, Man, if thou dow! O &s;ave one eye, Woman, if thou dow! 2. Con&s;ider wherefra this had its ri&s;e. I'le tell you it has had its, ri&s;e in &s;ome, from &s;lavi&s;h fear to gain &s;omething has darkned the eye of &s;ome; and to keep, has darkned the eye of others. Look that the hope of get|ting &s;omething of this World, or the fear of lo&s;ing, has put out your eyes or not; many has been blinded with le&s;s things: but &s;ome folks has &s;hut their eye-lids that they will not look up at all, but are walking blindfold|ed. Next, The Lord would be eyed &s;ingly, as that which is the fountain of Light, from whom it mu&s;t beam in upon us, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 50. la&s;t. Look to it that tho&s;e who make a Fire of their own building, and compa&s;s them|&s;elves about with &s;parks, they &s;hall lie down in &s;orrow, mickle &s;orrow find. Wo be it! for we and others too are often choak'd with it. This is the fruit of the imagination of our own heart. O happy they who with the P&s;almi&s;t have their eyes towards the Lord! Thus I would &s;ay to &s;uch who &s;it in darkne&s;s, and have no light, let them tru&s;t in the Lord, and &s;tay them&s;elves on God. Shall they that &s;it in darkne&s;s, tru&s;t in the Lord when they have no light? Folk would not lo&s;e their patience, and &s;tartle to the gate ere they get light from God, but ought to tru&s;t. I dare &s;ay, if God were tru&s;ted in, and &s;ingly eyed for direction, it &s;hould never be our plague.</P>
<P>The next thing is, That as folks would wait on God, and tru&s;t in him under darkne&s;s, &s;o they would re&s;olve to imploy God for the gift of light
<PB N="7" REF="4"> and Truth: For here he enters to his Prayers, <HI>O &s;end out thy Light and thy Truth.</HI> And this leads on to the third thing in the World That it's among&s;t the de&s;irable mercies of a Church or per&s;ons in the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> dark|ne&s;s, to be try&s;ted with Light and Truth. There are two or thre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> things hold out to you the de&s;irablene&s;s of this Mercy.</P>
<P N="1">1. It's one of the &s;pecial things Chri&s;t has in Commi&s;&s;ion, to open the eyes of the blind, to give light to them that &s;it in darkne&s;s. It's one of the greate&s;t proofs that the Go&s;pel is preached, when Light be|gins to &s;pread and break up, and Truth is vindicated. Then Chri&s;t is working, our Lord is then working amid&s;t the Golden Candle&s;ticks, and is not only there but he is about his Office, he is working</P>
<P>The &s;econd thing, &s;peaking the de&s;irablene&s;s of this M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rcy, is, The high value God's People have put on it. Hence it is that <HI>David</HI> in the fourth P&s;alm prefers the lifting up of God's Countenance to all the frui|tions of the World. What's your petition to day? would you have his Countenance lifted up upon you? Were Ballances created that could hold all that were in Heaven and Earth, Sea, and all that is in them, yet could it be nothing in compari&s;on of them; nor would all that could be put in this Ballance be but like a little pile of Du&s;t that a man would blow off of a Ballance.</P>
<P N="3">3. This Light, and freedom from Darkne&s;s, is one of the mo&s;t re&s;to|ring Ble&s;&s;ings that a Church or Soul is capable of, as in the la&s;t of <HI>Malachy, But unto you that fear the Lord, the Sun of Righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;hall ari&s;e with healing under his wings.</HI> What will that do? There needs no more to thaw the dozened frozen hearts of his People. I &s;hall melt you, would he &s;ay. O for the fight of the appearing of that day-&s;tar from on high! O our &s;ouls faint for that healing &s;ight.</P>
<P N="4">4. His Friends put it up as the chief Complaint, and foremo&s;t: Then how de&s;irable a mercy would that be, the removal whereof brings on the &s;adde&s;t things, and &s;adde&s;t complaints of his People. Two or three things from this. Fir&s;t, look that folks pray for no Light but that which is God's, and founded on his Truth; it's Thy Light; <HI>Send forth thy Light.</HI> All Lights be&s;ides this are Darkne&s;s.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. There is no other thing we would have you &s;eeking, that folks would not be &s;atisfied to have Light and Truth &s;ent forth for them&s;elves, but &s;o large as may reach the whole Church; that is to &s;ay, Mini&s;ters might be filled with it, and people might be filled with it, and &s;nares re|moved; and if not removed, yet eyes to &s;ee the &s;ame. O to &s;ee the
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Prie&s;ts of the Lord cloath<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d with this Light and Truth, and to &s;ee the Saints &s;houting whil&s;t they behold it!</P>
<P N="3">3dly, Seek that Light and Truth that may bring healing with it. What will you do with Light it ye get not Healing? If we get not heal|ing, we &s;hall all turn light and froth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">: th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">refore carry this Promi&s;e in to your Prayers, That Light and Healing may not be &s;eparated, but may be jointly given to the Church We are under many di&s;tempers and mu&s;t be healed, and it will be a meikle matter that vvill heal our breaches, and make us a &s;tanding hou&s;e again.</P>
<P>Again, I would have you, as to cry for Light and Truth, &s;o al&s;o that the Power may al&s;o come out therewith, &s;o as all the divided Bairns of this poor Kirk might be comented and captivated with his Light and his Truth, &s;o as none might mi&s;take the Light, and call it darkne&s;s, but that many might be made Children of the Light, who were before Children naturally in darkne&s;s. O but this would be de&s;irable, this would make us that promi&s;e that the Children would be crying out, Stretch out my Tents and my Cords: wherefore &s;tretch we cannot get room enough. And the Church &s;hall cry, Who has begotten me the&s;e? O but the&s;e would be heart&s;om days! O for &s;uch a birth of Converts! that would make up Widows and Fatherle&s;s, and lo&s;s of Kin, Friends and Alliance.</P>
<P><HI>There is another property w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mu&s;t have with Light, or it will do us little good, and that is Love; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ight and Love. O to &s;ee Light ri&s;ing, as that reflecting on hearts, it were warming their love <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd affection to Truth, and God him&s;elf, with the Brethren: if this come not out with light, our light <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ill turn into fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> rea&s;ons. Why the Lord's People &s;hould count this a de&s;irable me cy to have Light fir&s;t; becau&s;e <HI>walking in the Light, and in the Truth,</HI> is the walk that has immunity and freedom from offences and &s;tumbling. Light and Truth removes the&s;e. <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e are they who love his Law, nothing &s;hall offend them.</HI> Now that Law is that which gives Light. 2. It's Light that makes folk walk with confidence and boldne&s;s. It's her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">at <HI>Luther</HI> &s;aid, <HI>I'le yield to no man;</HI> why; <HI>I never took a cau&s;e by the hand but Chri&s;t'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> He walked in the Light, and therefore he was bold as a Lion. 3. It fir&s;t &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ts free from the trouble of many. <HI>Who can harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?</HI> But next, it capacitates you to endure per&s;ecution well, and capacita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s you to hold the more of Glory. 4. It's that which makes a nice ca&s;e al&s;o happy, as he is capable of in this &s;ide of time. Since Light and Truth is &s;o de&s;irable, I recommend it to you as a pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, to make &s;erious con&s;cience of Prayer to the Lord, That he would &s;end forth his Ligh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Truth, and that for this rea&s;on; Ye hear of ane Indulgence to Mini&s;ters to preach, and that the tryals are like to come nearer tryals for Mini&s;ters. If they do come to his Temple cleanly, yet their Faithfulne&s;s will try them: therefore it's your concernment to pray, <HI>Lord, &s;end out thy Light and thy Truth.</HI> For i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they be not faithful, it will be one of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;adde&s;t &s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s that <HI>Scotland</HI> hath met with the&s;e twenty years.</HI></P>
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