ptations and assaults." He closes, with these simple,
solemn, and affecting words--"But I must break off, I go to your God and
my God. _Death is to me as a bed to the weary._"

When the drums beat for his execution, he exclaimed, "Yonder is my
welcome call to the marriage. The Bridegroom is coming. I am ready." On
the scaffold, he sung the first part of the 3d Psalm, read the 19th
chapter of Revelations, and prayed. When he was rudely interrupted, he
said, "I shall soon be above these clouds. Then shall I enjoy Thee and
glorify Thee, O my Father, without intermission and interruption for
ever." In the few sentences that he was permitted to speak to the
spectators from the scaffold, after commending the Lord's special mercy
to him, in washing away his sins, and honouring him to suffer for His
name's sake, he declared he laid down his life mainly for three things:
1. For disavowing the usurpation and tyranny of James, Duke of York. 2.
Preaching that it is unlawful to pay cess, expressly exacted for bearing
down the gospel, and 3. Teaching that it is lawful for people to carry
arms for defending themselves in their meetings for persecuted gospel
ordinances." At the close, he said, "I leave my testimony against
Popery, Prelacy, and Erastianism, and against all profanity, and every
thing contrary to sound doctrine, and the power of godliness;
particularly against all usurpations and encroachments made upon
Christ's rights, who alone must bear the glory of ruling His own
kingdom, the Church; and in particular, against this absolute power,
usurped by this usurper, that belongs to no mortal; but is the
incommunicable property of Jehovah; and against this toleration flowing
from this absolute power." Here he was compelled to leave off speaking,
and to go up the ladder. He then prayed again, and said, "Lord! I die in
the faith that Thou wilt not leave Scotland, but that Thou will make the
blood of thy witnesses to be the seed of the Church, and will return
again and be glorious in our land. And now, Lord, I am ready; the Bride,
the Lamb's wife, hath made herself ready." When the napkin was tied
about his face, he uttered a few affectionate words to the single friend
who was permitted to attend him on the scaffold; his last counsels then
spoken to the suffering remnant, show how much his heart was with them,
and the cause of truth in their hands. "As to the remnant I leave, I
have committed them to God. Tell them from me, not to we