Chriſt is the head of his church. Secondly, That ſhe is free in her government from all other juriſdiction except Chriſt's, theſe two points, I ſay, are the ſpecial cauſe of our impriſonment, being now convict as traitors for the mantaining thereof; we have been ever waiting with joyfulneſs to give the laſt teſtimony of our blood in confirmation thereof if it ſhould pleaſe our God to be ſo favourabl as to honour us with that dignity; yea I do affirm, that theſe two points above written, and all other things which belong to Chriſt's crown, ſceptre, and kingdom, are not ſubject nor cannot be, to any other authority, but to his altogether. So that I would be moſt glad to be offered up as a ſacrifice for ſo glorious a truth; but, alas I fear my ſins and the abuſe of ſo glorious things as I have found, deprive me of ſo great a crown; yet my Lord doth know, if he ſhould call me to it, and ſtrengthen me in it, it would be to me the moſt glorious day, and the gladdeſt hour, that I ever ſaw in this life, but I am in his hand to do with me whatſoever ſhall pleaſe his Majeſty, it may ſuffice me, that I have had ſo long a time in the knowledge of the goſpel, and that I have ſeen the things that I have ſeen, and heard the things that I have heard, and through the grace of God, I have been ſo long a witneſs of theſe glorious and good news, in my weak miniſtry, and that my wittneſſing hath not been altogether without fruit and bleſſing, ſo that I hope at that day, I ſhall have him to be my crown, my glory, my joy, aud reward, and therefore boldly I ſay with Simion, Lord, now letteſt thou thy ſervant depart in peace, not in peaceable dying in my bed, but by rendering up to him my ſpirit, and the fealing and damping this truth with my blood, I deſire uot to have it remidied, but let my lord's will be done.
Now that prophecy is at hand, which theſe two worthy ſervants of the Lord, Mr. George Witheart, and Mr. John Knox, my ſervant in law ſpape, which was, That Chriſt ſhould be cruſified in this kingdom, but glorious ſhould be his reſurection, as Mr. Knox with his own hand upon the margin of Calvin’s harmony of the paſſion did write, which is yet extant; but alas! for this
