I am come here this day to lay down my life for adhering to
the truths of Christ, for which I am neither afraid nor ashamed to
suffer. Nay I bless the Lord that ever he counted me worthy, or enabled
me to suffer any thing for him; and I desire to praise his grace that he
hath not only kept me from the gross pollutions of the time, but also
from the many ordinary pollutions of children; and for such as I have
been stained with, he hath washed and cleansed me from them in his own
blood. I am this day to lay down my life for these three things: (1) For
disowning the usurpation and tyranny of James duke of York. (2.) For
preaching that it was unlawful to pay the cess expresly exacted for
bearing down the gospel. (3.) For teaching, that it was lawful for
people to carry arms for defending themselves in their meeting for the
persecuted gospel-ordinances. I think a testimony for these is worth
many lives, and if I had ten thousand I would think it little enough to
lay them all down for the same.

"Dear friends, I die a Presbyterian Protestant; I own the word of God as
the rule of faith and manners; I own the Confession of Faith, larger and
shorter Catechisms, Sum of saving knowledge, Directory for public and
family Worship, Covenants national and solemn League, Acts of general
assemblies, and all the faithful contendings that have been for the
covenanted reformation. I leave my testimony approving the preaching in
the fields, and the defending the same by arms. I adjoin my testimony to
all these truths that have been sealed by bloodshed, either on scaffold,
field or seas, for the cause of Christ. I leave my testimony against
popery, prelacy, Erastianism, &c. against all profanity, and every
thing contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness,
particularly against all usurpations and encroachments made upon
Christ's right, the Prince of the kings of the earth, who alone must
bear the glory of ruling in his own kingdom the church, and in
particular against this absolute power, usurped by this usurper, that
belongs to no mortal, but is the incommunicable prerogative of Jehovah,
and against his toleration, flowing from this absolute power."

Here he was ordered to have done.----He answered, I have near done; and
then said, "Ye that are the people of God, do not weary to maintain the
testimony of the day in your stations and places; and, whatever ye do,
make sure an interest in Christ, for there is a storm coming, that sha