manner of evil against you for My sake. Oh friends! it is only you that have ground to rejoice; if ye by Him be helped to keep the word of His patience, He will keep you in the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the face of the earth.

"Oh ! dear friends and followers of Christ, hold on your way, weary not, faint not, and ye shall receive the crown of life. It is those that overcome by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony, that shall stand, being clothed in white robes, before the throne, for these are they that came out of great tribulation. Remember that there is a book of remembrance written, and the names of these are written in it, that speak often one to another. Oh! my friends, let it be your study to keep up private fellowship meetings, wherein so much of the power and life of religion is to be found. Remember that here I, as a dying sufferer for Christ, leave this charge to every one of you that have any love to Christ; set about this and other duties with more fervent love and zeal than heretofore hath been done; and be much in private prayer; wrestle with God upon the account of Jacob's trouble. I will say this, that the more ye seek for Zion, the more ye will get for yourselves. Let not the reproaches cast upon the way of God, stumble you. And see that when ye are reviled, ye revile not again; but rather with meekness and love, in the fear of the Lord, study ye to gain others; but if they will not hearken, when this is done, then be free and faithful in testifying against them for so doing; but especially let your conversation testify your dislike of these sinful courses. And now, my dear friends in Christ, I leave you to Him, who has promised to be with you in the fire and water, and bear the weight of all your reproaches, and is afflicted in all your afflictions.

"As for you that are lying in black nature, I exhort you to repent of your sins, and come out of that woful estate wherein ye are now lying, and close with a slain Mediator upon His own terms. Oh! fall in love with the way of salvation. Oh! can ye think of the way of redemption, and not stand and wonder at the condescendency of free grace? I tell you, except ye repent, ye shall all perish.

"I have a word to speak to you that are cruel and open enemies to Christ and His cause. Remember, the saints shall judge the world; and then we shall not get leave to stand on equal terms with you; but we shall be set on thrones, with crowns on our heads, and harps in our hands, to sing praise to the Lamb. And then we shall

pass our sentence, with the great Judge, upon all the enemies of God; and ye shall be turned into hell, with all the nations that forget God, if ye repent not. I pray that the Lord would open your eyes, that ye may see your sins, and turn from them and live.

"I forgive all men the wrongs they have done, or can do to me. But for the wrongs done to Christ, in robbing Him of His right over His church and people, I know vengeance belongs to God, and He will repay them. Therefore I leave them under process, ay, and while [i.e., until] they repent.

"And now I begin to enjoy Him who is invisible; for it is but little we can see of Him now; but this I am sure of, that I shall be made conform to Him through His sufferings. Therefore I take my leave of all the world, and the enjoyments thereof. I leave my wife and child to my covenanted God, who gave them to me, and willingly quit and give them up to Him, hoping that He will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless, according to His promise. I hope that the friends of the Lord will remember the living for the dead's sake.

"Farewell wife and child, parents and relations, and all friends and acquaintances. Welcome heaven, angels, and saints! Welcome God and Father! Welcome lovely Jesus Christ! Welcome Holy Spirit of Grace; into Thy hands I commend my soul and spirit. "Sic subscribitur,

SABEL ALISON lived very privately in the town of Perth, and was of a sober and religious conversation. She had now and then heard Mr Cargill preach in the fields, and some few others before Bothwell, but not very often-field conventicles not being common in that part of the country. Upon her

nonconformity at Perth, and speaking against the severity used upon some religious people there, she was seized; but nothing else could be laid to her charge, till she was brought before some of the magistrates, and, in her simplicity, voluntarily acknowledged converse with some who had been declared rebels. When the Government were informed of this, a party of soldiers seized her, living peaceably in her chamber at Perth, and carried her to Edinburgh.

The Acts of Indemnity referred to in this testimony were a Pardon and Indemnity, dated June 29, 1679, to all tenants and sub-tenants who had been at Bothwell, provided they submitted by a certain day; and a General Indemnity, July 27, 1679. Both are in Wodrow, of the latter of which he says, it was so clogged that it put no great stop to the harassing and spoiling of the country by the soldiers.-ED.]

HE LAST SPEECH AND TESTIMONY of ISABEL
ALISON, who lived at Perth, and suffered at Edinburgh,
January 26, 1681.

The Interrogations of Isabel Alison before the
Privy Council:

"When I was brought before the Council, they asked me, Where did ye live; at St Johnstoun [i.e., Perth]? I answered, Yes.

"What was your occupation? To which I did not answer.

"The Bishop asked, If I conversed with Mr Donald Cargill? I answered, 'Sir, you seem to be a man whom I have no clearness to speak to.'

"He desired another to ask the same question. I answered, I have seen him, and wish that I had seen him oftener.

They asked, If I owned what he had done against the civil magistrate? I answered, I did own it.

They asked, If I could read the Bible? I answered, Yes.

"They asked, If I knew the duty we owe to the civil magistrate? I answered, When the magistrate carrieth the sword for God, according to what the Scripture calls for, we owe him all due reverence;

but when they overturn the work of God, and set themselves in opposition to Him, it is the duty of His servants to execute His laws and ordinances on them.

"They asked, If I owned the Sanqunar Declaration? I answered, I do own it.

"They asked, If I owned the papers taken at the Queensferry on Henry Hall? I answered, You need not question that.

him.

"They asked, If I knew Mr Skene? I answered, I never saw

"They asked, If I conversed with rebels? I answered, I never conversed with rebels.

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"They asked, If I did converse with David Hackston? I answered, I did converse with him, and I bless the Lord that ever I saw him; for I never saw aught in him, but a godly, pious youth. 'They asked, If the killing of the Archbishop of St Andrews was a pious act? I answered, I never heard him say that he killed him; but if God moved any, and put it upon them to execute His righteous judgments upon him, I have nothing to say to that.

"They asked me, When saw ye John Balfour [of Kinloch], that pious youth? I answered, I have seen him.

"They asked, When? I answered, Those are frivolous questions. I am not bound to answer them.

"They said, I thought not that a testimony. They asked, What think you of that in the Confession of Faith, that magistrates should be owned, though they were heathens? I answered, It was another matter, than when these, who seemed to own the truth, have now overturned it, and made themselves avowed enemies to it.

"They asked, Who should be judge of these things? I answered, The Scriptures of truth, and the Spirit of God; and not men, that have overturned the work themselves.

"They asked, If I knew the two Hendersons that murdered the Lord St Andrews? [Andrew Henderson and Alexander Henderson, in Kilbrachmont, are among the twelve mentioned by Russel as concerned in the deed.-ED.] I answered, I never knew any Lord St Andrews.

"They said, Mr James Sharp, if ye call him so. I said, I never thought it murder; but if God moved and stirred them up to execute His righteous judgment upon him, I have nothing to say to that.

"They asked, Whether or not I would own all that I had said? for, said they, You will be put to own it in the Grassmarket. And

they bemoaned me, in putting my life in hazard in such a quarrel. I answered, I think my life little enough in the quarrel of owning my Lord and Master's sweet truths; for He hath freed me from everlasting wrath, and redeemed me; and as for my body, it is at His disposal.

"They said I did not follow the Lord's practice in that anent Pilate. I answered, Christ owned His kingly office when He was questioned on it, and He told them He was a king, and for that end He was born; and it is for that that we are called in question this day-the owning of His kingly government.

"The Bishop said, We own it. I answered, We have found the sad consequences of the contrary.

"The Bishop said, He pitied me for the loss of my life. I told him, He had done me much more hurt than the loss of my life, or all the lives they had taken; for it much more affected me that many souls were killed by their doctrine.

"The Bishop said, Wherein is our doctrine erroneous? I said, That was better debated already than a poor lass could debate it.

"They said, Your ministers do not approve of these things, and ye have said more than some of your ministers; for your ministers have brought you on to these opinions, and left you there. I said, They had cast in baits among the ministers, and harled [i.e., drawn] them aside; and although ministers say one thing to-day, and another to-morrow, we are not obliged to follow them in that.

"Then they said, they pitied me; for, said they, We find reason and a quick wit in you; and they desired me to take it to advisement. I told them I had been advising on it these seven years, and I hoped not to change now.

"They inquired mockingly, If I lectured any? I answered, Quakers use to do so.

"They asked, If I did own Presbyterian principles? I answered, That I did.

"They asked, If I was distempered? I told them I was always solid in the wit that God had given me

"Lastly, they asked my name. I told them, If they had staged [i.e., accused] me, they might remember my name, for I had told them already, and would not aye [i.e., always] be telling them. One of them said, May ye not tell us your name? Then another of themselves told it.