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A memorial of the life [et] death of two vvorthye Christians, Robert Campbel of the Kinyeancleugh, and his wife, Elizabeth Campbel In English meter.
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Davidson, John, ca. 1549-1603.
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1595
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A MEMORIAL OF THE life death of two vvorthye Christians ROBERT CAMPBEL of the Kinyeancleugh and his Wife ELIZABETH CAMPBEL In English Meter EDINBVRGH PRINTED BY RObert Walde-graue Printer to the Kings Maiestie 1595. Cum privilegio Regali TO HIS LOVING SISTER IN CHRIST ELIZABETH CAMPBEL of KINYEANCLEVGH Grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Iesus Christ his Sonne with the assistance of Gods holy spirit to the end and in the end Amen FInding this little Treatise Sister dearelie beloued in Christ of late yeares amongst my other Papers which I made about twentie yeares and one agoe Immediatlie after the death of your godlie Parentes of good memory with whome I was most dearlie acquainted in Christ by reason of the troble I suffered in those daies for the good cause wherin God made them chiefe comforters vnto me till death separated vs. As I vewed it over and reade it before some godly persones of late they were most instant with me that I woulde suffer it to come to light to the stirring vp of the zeale of Gods people amongst vs which now beginneth almost to be quenched in all estates none excepted So that the saying of the worthie servaunt of God Iohn Knox among many other his fore-speakings proueth true that is That as the Gospel entred among vs and was receiued with feruencie and heat so he feared it should decay and lose the former bewtie through coldnes and lothsomnesse howbeit as he saide many times it should not vtterly be overthrown in Scotland til the comming of the Lord Iesus to iudgment in spite of Sathan malice of al his slaues Howbeit indeed it is not to be denied but that the prophesie of that worthie Martyr M. George Wishart shal proue as true who prophccying of the victorie of the trueth shortly to followe in Scotland saide but allace if after so great light and libertie of the Gospell in Scotland the people shall become vnthankfull then fearfull and terrible shal the plagues be that after shal follow But to the purpose to their request a length I yeelded although long vnwilling in respect of the basenesse of the forme of writing which yet at the time of the making thereof I thought most familiar according to the old maner of our Countrie to moue our people to followe the example of these godly persones according to their callings and estate And so beeing yet put in good hope that it would profite I was contented it should bee after this manner published committing the issue to our good GOD who worketh sometimes by base meanes to some profit of the Church according to his good pleasure The saying also of Gregorie Nazianzene writing of Basile the great after his death did 〈◊〉 a little incourage me it beeing by Gods providence in my handes when I was about to write this The sense whereof followeth It is a thing of most dutifull affection to commend the memory of holy persones that are departed especially of such as haue bene of most 〈…〉 vvhether it be by friends or strangers I haue directed it vnto you deare Sister by name that yee may make your profite of it in particular for confirming you by the woorthie example of your Parents in these evill and declining daies in that Godlie course of Christianitie wherein it hath pleased GOD to make you succeede vnto them no lesse than to the worldlie heritage proceeding rightly from them to you after the death of their onely Sonne Nathaniel your Brother though not without your crosse your masters loving badge given to you to beare no doubt for your profite The Lord strengthen you to beare it to his glorie and your comfort And so I ende with this sentence of BASILE Take heede to your selfe that ye may take heed to God Farewell in Christ From Edinburgh the 24. of May. 1595. Your assured Friend in Christ I. D. A MEMORIAL OF THE LIFE OF TWO WORthie Christians SEn Poets in all times before Set all their care and endeuore Of worthie persons for to write When euer they saw thē delite In wisdome Iustice or manheid Or any other vertuous deid Yea thogh vertue it had not bene Gif they like vertue had it seene The Poets of all former daies Would neuer cease it for to prayes As of those Camptons most strong The Troianes and the Greeks among Did Homer write and Seneca Virgil Ouid and many ma Renowmed Romanes to rehearse Wants not their worthies put in verse So we finde deeds of vassalage Set foorth by Poets in all age Euen of Gray-Steill wha list to luke Their is set foorth a meikle buke Yea for to make it did them gude Of that rank Rouer Robene Hude Of Robene Hude and little Iohne With sik like Outlawes many one As Clim of the Clewgh and Cliddislie Because of their fine archerie Sen men I say then in those daies Took so great labour for to prayse Men for these vaine and earthly things That small or no true comfort brings Yea oft times hurtfull are and ill To sick as they are granted till Why should we not with all our might Write in thir daies of so great light Of faithfull godly men and wise Who for the trueth durst interprise To hazard at the Lords command Al that they had both life and land As Davids worthies had their prayes Ours should haue theirs al 's in our daies Sik doughtie deeds of Uassalage Should be remembred in all age Not to giue flesh the praise therfore Bot onelie to giue God the glore Who so his seruants doth endue Unto his worke with all vertue That both vertue may praised be And also our posteritie May finde before them put in write Wherein their fathers did delyte Not in the dark deeds of the night But in the comely waies of light In honest godly life and cleane And sa the difference betweene Us that liues now in time of light Professing trulie in Gods sight And them that liued in Papistrie In blindnes and Idolatrie Unto our of-spring shall appeir Whereby the lesson they may leir To flie from vice and vanitie And to embrace the veritie Likewise they that liues in this age Persauing deeds of Uassalage Stowtnes in God and constancie For to be put in memorie And neuer man to be ouerseene That frak in the good cause hes bene Sic as hes spirits heroycall Will be more moued herewithall To be mair valiant stowt and wise In euery godly interprise The lying locusts al 's of Rome That spread their lies through Christendome By their Chronicklers calumnies Whome they hyre to write hystories Of vs and our Religion Shall be brought to confusion When they shall be made to confesse The good liues of some who professe The trueth of Christ spite of their 〈◊〉 Heir aswell as in other partes So shall not we our labours lose That writes our works to this purpose Our Gods Name to glorifie And Neighbours for till edifie Then to beginne but proces more We haue
falt Wha can sit still and smoothlie heere Their companie baith banne and swere Which euill custome drawes on also Themselues to swearing or they go Great cause sall sic haue to lament Except in tyme they do repent His other speaches all are pend In prose as after shall be kend He craued one thing feruentlie That he might end this miserie From time he sawe some of the Kirk Not vprightly beginne to wirk Bot Christ his cause for to betray This speach on dead bed when he lay He vttered oft with hart full sare Crauing dissoluing without mare Bot cheiflie sen the Assemblie Halden the date of seuentie thrie And saxt of March where many man In Edinburgh assembled than The double dealing he saw thare Past neuer from his heart but mare Na seiknes could make him forget That last Assemblie as it set Touching the quhilk what he spake thare Now is not needfull to declare Gods iust Iudgements he did foresee Approching fast to this Cuntrie When some said Sir why do ye craue So earnestly this lyfe to laue He sayd Brethren sawe ye I wisse The sight I see of heauenly blisse And contrarewise gif ye did see A blink of that great misery That vnto Scotland fast doth hy Ye wald wish death as well as I So great is our ingratitude Persauing then 〈◊〉 to conclude That he wes to depart this life He sent hame quicklie for his wife Quha but all tarying came thare Fra she got word with heart full sare She raid that wilsome wearie way Neir fourtie myles on Law Sunday Be she had beene there dayes thrie He parted from this miserie Till heauens blisse I am right sure His soule on Thursday next did sure So gude Iohn Knox he followed sone Within a yeare and halfe was gone Then did the Lard of Lochinvar With all the Cuntrie far and naâ—â— In ane litter his corps bring downe On Fryday to Dammellintoune That night fyfteene nights he didly There blyth and glaid as he came by That night his body brought on beir An haâ—stie change we may see heir In earth is na mair constancie Then wherefore pride-full should we be Or in these earthlie things confyde As we were euer heir to byde Sen we see all of women borne Bot this day hâ—ir away to morne Bot ane kennis not another gude On Saterday then to conclude The four and twentie of Aprile The Lairds and Gentil-men of Kyle Yea baith of high and lawe degrie Met him therewith sic Assemblie As was not seene in Kyle before This hundreth yeares and many more Many wette cheaks at that meeting There might be seene with sare sighing It wald haue made anes hart full sare To see the meeting that was thare Though they knewe he was well but doubt Yet their affections bursted out And could not let them to lament For losse of sic an Instrument So they receiued the corps that day From Lochinvar and Galloway And with all honour did it bring Unto the Kirkyard of Machling Where they did burie him but mare And sa I leaue him lyand thare And will speake something of his wife Wha shortly after left this life For as thay were baith ioynd in hart Sa death almost could not them part And as in life thay did agrie So death could not keepe them sundrâ—â— For in Aprill the twentie tway He did depart in Galloway In Iune next she gaue vp the ghost About the midst of it almost In the hote feauer she also Out of this miserie did go In Iames Bannareins house of Air For short before she had past thare Thinking to liue most quietly Among that godly company For the hale race of all that hous Of Kinyeancleugh are right zealous And of lang tyme hes sa bene kend The Lord assist thame to the end For Robert and this Iames of Air Sister and brother barnis ware And sa nane meeter she could finde For to remaine withall behinde Bot God had ordaind what should mair That she should end her life in Air Fra her husband wes brought on beir She had no pleasure longer heir Bot did desire most hartfullie At Gods pleasure with him to be Quhilk she obteined in short space And so was caried to that place In the Kirkyarde where he dois ly Of Machling and layd hard him by Lang may ye seek to finde sic tway As God there nowe hes tane away For what man he was I haue told Of singular graces manifold And as for her the trueth to tell Among women she bure the bell During her daies in her degrie In godlines and honestie Of Iudgement rypest in Gods Law Of any woman that I knaw In Gods buke she was so verse it That scarce wald men trow to rehearse it Of so excellent memorie And al 's of sic dexteritie Gods word to vse to her comfort And theirs who did to her resort That her to heare it was delyte In Scriptures she was so perfyte Quhilk was not words and babling vaine Bot words with knawledge ioynd certaine Quhilk in her life she did expresse By doing as shee did prosesse All Gods true seruants far and neir She did esteeme as Freinds most deir And neuer loued societie With any godlesse companie Baith wise and provident was sho In houshold things she had ado Quhat should I say this woman od Was his great comfort vnder God And doubtles was of God a blessing Of speciall gifts after his wishing So for to end as I began I wait sic ane woman and man Of so many gude properties Of rare and heauenly qualities Is not in Scotland left behind Whais waytaking we be not blind Should make vs clearlie vnderstand That Gods iust Iudgments are at hand To punish the Rebellion Of this maist stubborne nation Who to Gods will dois not attend For no punition he dois send For we may easilie considder The waytaking of thir together Of so excellent behaueours And that almost bot in their flowers For nane of them was past throughlie The age of fourtie yeares and thrie Is not for nought what euer it be That is to followe hastelie For why sic as the Lord God loues Before the plague he oft remoues According as the Scripture sayes Quhilk shortned good Iosias dayes With many others that are past And that great plagues approched fast Gude Robert as we heard before Foresawe and plainly did deplore As all man grant as well as he That hes Iudgment or eies to see Therefore sen they are tane away For to fore warne vs all I say That God is reddy for to come With plagues to punish all and some That dois delight in wickednes In reif murther and filthines And covatyce whereof they grow Quhilk this hale Cuntrie dois ouerflow And all the lang rebellion To God within this Nation Whose Iudgements now we see appeare And their forerunners drawing neere Let vs with all the speed we can Go hide vs with the prudent man That seis the plague while it is far And hydes himselfe or it come nar By turning vnto Christ our King And hyding vs vnder his wing Wha in all tempest wind and preace Is our refuge and hyding place As Isay in the thirtie tway Of that his Prophecie dois say So we of safetie shall be sure What euer plagues euill men endure On whome that great day but releif Shall suddainely come as a theif And turne in twinkling of ane eye Their Ioy and mirth to miserie And we shall passe for evermore To raigne with Christ our King in glore Who saued vs and none but he Bearing our sinnes vpon the tree To whome therefore euer be praise And to the Father eik alwaies And to the holy Spirit most free One onely God and persones three FINIS