… And as I believe the firmness of the stipulation betwixt Jehovah and his Anointed, to secure unto him his throne, and take vengeance on all his adversaries; and as I believe he lives to make intercession, so I must believe also that, at that very instant, when the indulged stood before the council, and by their mouth made such a harangue, the Mediator, who is set down at the right hand of God, was interceding and pleading by his blood, by his wounds and passion, for the execution of the purchased and promised vengeance upon such, who by the complex of this very deed, in a defiance to the everlasting decree, whereby his throne is established, declared they had taken unto themselves his house in possession.

—Excerpted from the Epistle to the Christian Reader prefixed to "The History of the Indulgence" by "A PRESBYTERIAN" (namely, John Brown of Wamphray.)