I Will Be Thy King: A Sermon Delivered During the 'Killing Time' in Scotland - Richard Cameron

Hosea 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. 10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? King James Version (KJV)

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Richard Cameron was born near Leuchars around 1647 and went to university at St Andrews before becoming a teacher. In 1678 he was licensed to preach and large crowds came to hear him, but he soon got in trouble for preaching against ministers who had accepted the indulgences. He then went to Holland for a few months, where he was ordained as a minister by members of the Scottish church there.

He came back to Scotland two months after the battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679 to find that the ministers had stopped preaching in the fields as they saw it as too dangerous for both them and the people. Cameron however saw it as his duty to preach the gospel no matter what might happen, and preached at a conventicle in November. 3,000 people came to hear God’s word preached. The next Lord’s Day, even more people came to hear. Despite his life being in constant danger, Cameron kept on preaching.

On 22 June 1680, exactly a year after the defeat at Bothwell Bridge, Cameron and twenty horsemen rode into the town of Sanquhar, where they sung a psalm and read out a document known as the Sanquhar declaration. In it, Cameron and his