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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35932	A testimony to the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the Church of Scotland, and the covenanted work of reformation as it was profess'd in the three kingdoms together with an account of the persecution of some of the most eminent in our days for their adherence to the same / as it was left in write by ... Mr. John Dick ; to which is added, his last speech and behaviour on the scaffold, on the fifth day of March 1684 ... never published till now ...	Dick, John, d. 1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing D1381; ESTC T178184	75,083	59

great Work I have now in hand I mean Death and Eternity neither of which is terrifying nor dumping to me for the which and all other of his Favours and Mercies which he in the abundance of his Goodness and Riches of his free Grace bestowed on me even one me who while in a Natural State was as evil and abominable in Gods sight as any here at this time I desire to bless Adore Admire Exalt and praise the Lord while in time for I know I shall shortly praise him without Interruption or Intermission I say it again I bless him for all his Mercies and Favours conferred upon me and not only this among the rest but above all next to that great one that he made me his own by his Purchase and so became mine and altho' I have not keeped all right as to him yet he has keeped all right as to me and betwixt him and me all is right his other Mercies and Favours that he has condescended so much to Dignifie and Honour me as to Crown all in me with Martyrdom At which the Bailie called again Beat but he stoped him saying ye need not Beat for ye shall have no Cause of Beating so he Cryed out saying Now my Dear Freinds in Christ it is your Assistance I Crave in this Exercise of Praising let me Beseech you to join with me in Singing to the Praise of this even my GOD and the GOD of my Consolation and Salvation I say to the Father Son and Holy Ghost let us Sing Praise from the beginning of the 2d Psalm So having Sung that Psalm through which we Sang with great Chearfulness and sometimes Pointing with his Hands to one Art and sometimes to another but Especially when he Sang the 6th 7th and 8th Verses his Countenance so Shined that it might easily appeared to Judicious and Pious Spectators that he was in an Excelent Frame and in a Special way to be Helped to Sing Praise to the LORD and having done with Singing he said with a Pleasent Countenance I nothing doubt but amongst this great Confluence of People there are many that are nearer and Dearer to our Exalted and Glorified Lord Jesus Christ therefore I shall Address my self to two Sorts and shall Speak a short Word to each of these as Providence and time shall allow me first I shall Speak to Friends Secondly to Enemies at which the Bailie called to Beat but he stopped him saying forbear Beat not for ye have had no Cause to Beat as yet neither shall ye have any Cause hereafter and so he Proceeded saying as to you that are Freinds I mean all such as are Resolved to follow our Blessed LORD fully through Good Report and Bad Report Cost what it will I say according to the Rule that he hath given in his Word I say I have three words of good News to tell you and as the Words of a Dying Man And First it shall be well with the Righteous yea verily it shall be well with the Righteous Now in speaking to this I would say two things but do not mistake me For I am neither a Minister nor a Preacher for I am not going to preach but only to give my last Advice to these here which I shall do in a few words For neither do I desire to weary you nor to speak much more the Body being shortly to be caught up above the Clouds pointing with his hand up to Heaven I mean my Soul which shall be immediatly there And First That you my Friends may understand me that the Righteousness of none can make you Righteous but Christ and he Imputed to you for Righteousness So I say ye most have a Borrowed Righteousness even the Righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to you and this is the way that ye most be Righteous I say it shall be well with the Righteous the Spirit of GOD hath said it in his word and that is better than an Angel had spoken it from Heaven for we have a more sure word of Prophesie 2 Peter 1 Chap. and 16 Verse at which the Bailie said what Sir are ye going to Preach to whom he Answered yet Smiling I am not Preaching but leaving my last Advice to these here as not only I am but as others are Engaged to GOD that I should Admonish my Christian Friends and Acquaintances in Christ while I am in the Body And now this being my last Appearance for GOD I am bound thereto Therefore I intreat you Yea I Charge that ye would nor Interrupt me and ye shall have no cause to Beat Drums and so he proceeded saying But Secondly to be Righteous is not to sit down nor rest Satisfied with what ye have attained but to press foreward to the Prize and so walking Answerable to what ye have Received and to what ye profess not being Satisfied with what ye are or may appear to be in the Eyes of Men but study a holy and inward way and walking in the sight of GOD and all Men that ye are the persons that have this imputed Righteousness imputed to you and so labour to have your Light so to shine before Men that ye may Glorifie your Heavenly Father and such as are these Righteous I say it shall be well with them Then a Second word of good News I have to tell you my Friends is this that Jesus Christ is sitting at the Helm of Affairs and whatever he will he doth it and there is none that is able to stop him when he worketh and whatsoever his pleasure is cometh to pass this man thinketh he is working one peice of Work and a Second Man thinketh he is working an other peice of Work and a Third Man thinketh he is working his peice of Work and it may be all are working contrar one to another as they think and yet for all that they are all working and carrying on his work even when they think they are doing that which at least some of them would have done the quite contrary so I say in all these they are all working and carrying on Christ's work Now my Friends I exhort all of you yea I obtest you for Christ's sake weary not of GOD but wait on him and keep his way I mean the way appointed in His Word and must him with his own work for all that has been done or shall ever be done by the Actions of Men to the contrar yet his work is still c●rried on thereby so lippen to GOD and ye shall not be disappointed But a Third word of Good News that I have to tell you is this that notwithstanding of all the dark Clouds that has been and now are yet I can assure you that there are Glorious Days coming to thir Covenanted Lands and I assure you yea I dare aver it that they are nearer than ye at least a great part even of the Godly that are does believe I say it again Sirs there are Glorious Days coming to thir Lands even to