The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…

However, since such industrious endeavours are used to disparage, disgrace, and vilify sufferers and Martyrs for the Protestant Religion, and to make little and light of all the great and weighty ⟨image 11⟩differences betwixt Protestantism and Popery, It should alarm, as with sound of trumpet, your La: and all sound and upright hearted Protestants in Scotland, to rouse ourselves, and by all suitable, sinless, and warrantable ways earnestly to contend for the reformed Protestant Religion, the very faith once for all delivered by Jesus Christ and his Apostles to the Saints, (I say the very faith so delivered, because we reformed Protestants heartily own all the doctrine of faith contained in the sacred Scriptures, and own nothing as necessary to be believed or practised in order to salvation, that is not contained there, either in express words, or that is not deducible therefrom by genuine, unconstrained, and necessary consequence) that hath been signally sealed from Heaven by the conversion, edification, and salvation of multitudes of souls; That hath been confirmed by the sufferings & deaths of many thousands of Martyrs thorrow the world, and of not a few in these Kingdoms; That faith for which our noble and renowned Ancestors did so strenuously strive and wrestle, by all lawful means and ways, that the same might be handed down to us; And which God and they have committed to our trust and custody as a most precious depositum, obliging us under all highest pains, even of his eternal wrath and curse, that we endeavour to transmit the same entire and untainted to them that shall come after us; And that faith which we are withal by solemn engagements, ⟨image 11⟩taken on before God and the World, indispensably obliged to maintain, profess, avouch, and bear testimony unto, at any rate or hazard, as we are called to it, It being indeed the true glory of a testimony, to give it when God calls for it in the face of danger; Let us therefore be prevailed with, and persuaded by all these and other such considerations, earnestly to contend for this faith, and to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, that we be not again entangled with the yoke of Antichristian bondage. And that we may thorrow grace, be the better disposed and capacitated to do so; We would endeavour, 1.

However, since such industrious endeavours are used to disparage, disgrace, and vilifie sufferers and Martyres for the Protestant Religion, and to make litle and light of all the great and weighty