e nothing of God in them.

"13. The exceiding grate negligence that is in grate ones, and maney
others, in performing the deuties in ther families notwithstanding
of our former soleme acknowledgment of the samen; as also, our
neglecte of the deuties of mutuall edificatione, and grate
unfruitfullness and barrennes that is to be seene amongest all sorts
of persons; togider with the following of deutie with a grate deall
of mixture of carnall affections and fleschly wisdome wich grives
the Spirit of God, and takes away muche of the beutie of the Lords
image from our judicatories.

"As we wold be humbled for thesse thinges, so wold wee also intreat
the Lord that he wold sanctifie this affliction to his people that
they nather dispysse his chestisings, nor faint quhen they are
rebukit of him, bot that they may beare his indignatione patiently,
and cleive steadfestly to the treuthe, and the covenants, and the
causse of God without yeilding to the power of the enimey, or
receaving ther errors, or complaying ather with them on the one
hand, ore malignants on the other, and that the Lord wold poure out
of his Spirit upon the people, that ther spiritts may be raissed
unto ther deutie, and that they may be filled and furnished of God
with wisdome and resolutione to acte against their enimies for the
honor of God, ther awen preservatione; and that the Lord wold not
suffer them to be tempted above that whiche they are able to beare,
bot that he wold break the yoke of ther oppressors from off ther
neckes, and give them salvatione and deliverance; earnestly to
intreat the Lord in private and in publicke that he wold preserve
with us the ordinances of Jesus Christe, the kingdom, the kings
maties persone, the ministrie, from the power of ther enimies, quho
seekes the destruction of all."--Id. pp. 102-107.--_Ed._]

329 [See the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, Anno 1650, xxx
Novembris, vol. vi. p. 544.--_Ed._]

330 ["About this time the king's head was filled by some unhappy men
about him, especially Dr. Fraser [who was the king's physician] and
Henry Seymour, with many extreme fears. After the affront at Leith,
they had raised suspicions in his mind, which, upon the defeat at
Dunbar, were increased, but by the separate rising in the