More on Resisting the Royals

Continuing on the theme from yesterday of Resisting the Royals a few excerpts from a sermon given by Richard Cameron during a field meeting:

What are you doing here this day? There are several of you come from afar. Is it your zeal for the Lord of hosts that has brought you here? Oh how few can say that the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up! As for you that have not this end before you, that Christ may come unto this land, and have the crown set upon his royal head, you have little to do here, and we would willingly be rid of you. And we take these hills around us to witness against you this day, if this be not your end to bring Christ back again unto this land.

But let all of us look unto ourselves, and see what we have brought upon ourselves. We will not get a field meeting in Scotland but what is here at this time. Last year we had twenty or thirty, that carried the Lord's banner from one place to another in Scotland. It is not so now; but it is much that we have such a meeting as this. God be thanked for it. But we are brought very low and our persecutors are greater than we; and they are now saying: 'We have got them under, and let us keep them so.' They think they will get us all apprehended, and there is a great appearance of it. They will behead and hang us, if possible eradicate us from the face of the earth. We look upon our right hand, and upon our left hand, and there is no man that knows or cares for us. We are a party on whom few look upon the right hand, few of the ministers and professors. The most part of them have got into towns and country places; and the best news they could hear would be that a party of the enemy had come and cut everyone of us off.

Our Lord is saying: 'If you would have help from me, you must take me to be your King; you must take me to be head of the church.'. Our Lord Jesus is, and must be King upon his holy hill of Zion. There is no king in the church besides him; the Lord has given him to be King to rule in you and over you. Now, are you content to be let the King of Glory, the Lord of hosts, enter into your hearts and souls? And, oh, what say you in Galloway and Nithsdale? Will you take Christ to be your King, and to be the anointed King of the Church? And what say you at Clydesdale and Lothian? Are there any of you here content to cast yourselves at his feet, and to enter your name in his list among his subjects? Come and set down your names, and submit unto him, and give away yourselves unto him. There were hope in Israel concerning our case, if there were any this day crying, 'I am content to take him for my King, my Lord, and Saviour.'Fuller text can be read @ The puritannical blog

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