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smile upon my poor gift, and accept of them; I solemnly stand to all my former engagements, and make a solemn resignation of myself unto thee, and desire to close with thee on thy own terms, O let to thy seal to it, and condescend in thy love, to let it be registrate in heaven, that whatever may be my case or tryals, I may have a covenanted God to run to; Lord keep me in thy way, and help me to stand by truth. I desire this day to protest against all the incroachments that are made on thy rights and church privileges. And I desire to protest this day before thy throne, against the soul murdering courses that ministers and people are taking. And I desire to protest against that horrid abomination of defiling the Lord’s table, after such an ignominious manner. Oh poor Scotland! What shall be thy end ? Wrath, from on high, for your sacrilegious abominations: I desire this day to adhere to all thy covenanted truths founded upon thy holy word; I desire to mourn over any thing that is in me or mine, that is offensive in thy sight? O Lord, let us be wholly for thee, acting for thee with a perfect heart; I desire no longer to have a posterity than they are for thee. O Father, Son and Holy Ghost, come and be witness to this bargain, and close with me that desires to close with thee and to be thy covenanted child. Here I take the trees of the wood, and all the works of creation about me, to witness that I have given all mine unto thee, not in my strength, but in thine O Lord Jehovah, to whom I desire this day to give everlasting praises, that thou shalt not suffered my table to be empty, whilst others are defiling thine. O praise! praise forever be to thee. As witness my hand at Airds, June 1695.Sic subscribitur
"If any suspect this as counterfit, or vitiat, they may go to her husband, who can shew them the principal, all written and subscribed with her own hand."
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