and blaſphemy. The Lord hath covered himſelf with a cloud in his anger, we looked for peace, but behold evil: Our ſouls rejoiced, when his majeſty did ſwear the covenant of God, and put thereto his ſeal and ſubſcription; and therefore confirmed it by his royal promiſe. So that the ſubjects' hearts bleſſed the Lord, and reſted upon the healing word of a prince. But now, alas! the contrary is ennacted by law, the carved work is broken down, ordinances are defaced, and we are brought into the former bondage and chaos of prelatical confuſions. The royal prerogative of Chriſt is pulled from his head, and, after all the days of ſorrow we have ſeen, we have juſt cauſe to fear we ſhall be made to read and eat that book, wherein is written mourning, and lamentation, and wo. Yet we are to believe Chriſt will not ſo depart from the land, but a remnant ſhall be ſaved; and he ſhall reign a victorious conquering king to the ends of the earth. O that there were nations, kindreds, tongues, and all the people of Chriſt's habitable world, encompaſſing his throne with cries and tears for the ſpirit of ſupplication, to be poured down upon the inhabitants of Judah for that effect.
A Brief Account of Mr. RUTHERFOORD's
Life, with ſome of his laſt words.
MR. SAMUEL RUTHERFOORD, a gentleman by extraction, having ſpent ſome time at the grammar-ſchool, went to the univerſity of Edinburgh, where he was ſo much admired for his pregnancy of parts, and deſervedly looked upon as one from whom ſome great things might be expected, that in a ſhort time (though then but very
