Sir, if the lord will, are yet ready to do more in onr calling, and to ſuffer more for the ſame, if ſo be it will pleaſe our God to call us to it, and ſtrengthen us in it, for ourſelves we dare promiſe nothing, but in our God all things.
And for that inſturment Spotſwood, we are ſure the Lord will never bleſs that man, but a malediction lies upon him, and ſhall accompany all his doings: and it may be, Sir, your eyes ſhall ſee as great comfuſion covering him, ere he go to his grave, as ever did his predeceſſors. Now ſurely, Sir, I am far form bitterneſs, but here I denounce the wrath of an everlaſting God againſt him, which aſſuredly ſhall fall except it be prevented. Sir, Dagon ſhall not ſtand before the ark of the Lord, and theſe names of blaſphemy that he wears of arch and lord biſhop, will have a fearful end, Not one beck is to be given to Haman, ſuppoſe he was as great a courtier as ever he was, ſuppoſe the decree was given out and ſealed with the kings ring, deliverance will come elſewhere, and not by him, who has been ſo ſore an inſtrument, not againſt: our perſons, that were nothing, (for I proteſt to you, Sir, in the ſight of my God, I forgive him all the evil he has done, or can do, to me) but unto chriſt's poor kirk, in ſtamping under foot, ſo glorious a kingdom, and beauty, as was once in this land; he has helped to cut Sampſon's hair, and to expoſe him to mocking, but the Lord will not be mocked: he ſhall be caſt away as a ſtone out of a ſling, his name ſhall rot, and a malediction ſhall fall upon his poſterity after he is gone. Let this, Sir, be a monument of it, that it was told before, that when it ſhall come to paſs, it may be ſeen there was warning given him: And therefore, Sir, ſeeing I have not the acceſs myſelf, if it would pleaſe God to move you, I wiſh you did deliver this hard meſſage to him not as from me, but from the Lord.
Blackneſs, 1605, JOHN WELCH.
