place where Christ shall reign, and let them be owned. We are constrained to say this, and can say in our Lord and Master's name, let vows and covenants go through the land, though we should not have an army in Scotland this twelve month: yet, as the Lord lives, though he had not a party to back him, yet he himself would bring down all about us, Vow and pay unto the LORD, and he will cut off the spirit of princes, for he is terrible to the kings of the earth:" he will make them all to shake and quake. It is observed by old bishop Spotswood in Edinburgh, at the time the last bishops were brought down; when he heard tell that some noblemen and gentlemen were met together in Edinburgh, to renew the national covenant. O, says he, we have done with it since his people have entered into covenant. O that there were personal entering into covenant, and that there were general and national vowing to God; that they would have none to be the head of his church but Christ; and that they would have none to be rulers but such as will be a terror to evil doers, haters of covetousness, and lovers of God; if it were so, we durst pawn our souls, that our Lord would soon arise out of his place, and let us see our desire on our enemies; O that we were wise! O but, poor people! they are much disheartened and discouraged, they think that no means will do good: now, if we would acknowledge that we have walked contrary to him and he to us, Lev. xxvi. 40, 41, he would soon appear: and if ye ask how I can speak so confidently of the Lord's appearing and contending with his enemies now, when there is so little appearance of it?—I answer, There is more appearance of it now than there was in the beginning of June last year, for as great an army as ye had (before the break of Bothwell): if ye would draw near to God he would draw near to you; and if those things were set about that we have spoken of, ye would see the deliverance completed very shortly:—and I'll tell you the symptoms of it in two words, and that is, the people ofGod
