Excerpt from The History of the State and Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, From the Restoration to the Revolution, Vol. 2 of 2: With an Introduction Containing the Most Remarkable Occurrences Relating to That Church From the Reformation to the Restoration, With an Introduction, Containing the Most Remarkable Occurrences Relating to That Church, From the Reformation to the Restorat

From what has been related in the former volume, we may easily form a judgment of the dismal state of the nation, on account of the arbitrary proceedings of those who had the management of affairs, and the unaccountable severities which many innocent people endured.

The rigorous and military execution of the sanguinary laws, now in force, could not but exasperate those who were by this means robbed of their liberties and properties, and of every thing that was dear and valuable, especially as oppressions of every kind were still increasing. All legal methods of redress were cut off from the poor suffering people. What then could they do? Surely one might think, that it was incumbent upon them to fall upon measures for getting from under the feet of their cruel oppressors, for who would chuse to continue in misery, if they could, by any lawful and justifiable method, extricate themselves from it, They were most averse to take arms, until they were forced to it in their own defence. And though they were obliged to have recourse to this expedient, yet they never desired to have an opportunity of making use of it, but, being declared rebels on this account, they were constrained to persevere in it, till the fury of their persecutors drove them to the rising I am now to give an account of.

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