O tell us, ye eulogists of the Scottish martyrs, whether ye are prepared to take your stand on the ground whereon they stood, and whereon they fell, by refusing countenance and active support to civil rulers who trample in the dust the covenanted work of reformation, and are closely leagued with the Romish Antichrist, that we may rightly understand your meaning, and form a proper estimate of your professions. And meanwhile, we take the liberty most distinctly and emphatically to assure you and we appeal to their own public declarations and dying testimonies, for the truth of what we say that had these confessors not magnanimously chosen the ground which the Reformed Presbyterian Church has been endeavoring, for a century and a half, to maintain, and by which she is distinguished from all others, their heads would never have rolled on gory scaffolds, nor would the grey memorials of their martyrdom have imparted so sombre and hallowed an aspect to the sequestered dells, and heath-clad hills, of our fatherland . To us, therefore, belong alike the odium and the honour of identity with them; we have long borne the one, and we may surely now be permitted, without the charge of arrogance or presumption, to claim a share in the other. “Seeing that many glory after the flesh , we will glory also.” (2 Corinthians 11:18).
John Graham, The Revolution Settlement of the Church of Scotland: Being No. IV Of a Course of Lectures on the Second Reformation (Glasgow, SC: J. KEITH, HUTCHESON STREET; W. MARSHALL, MAXWELL STREET, 1841) Pg. 13.
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