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secution will be stopt within these few years, but I will not see it; and ye are all longing and praying for that day, but when it comes ye will not crack so much of it as ye trow. And ye are a vain man James, and many others, with your bits of paper and drops of blood; but when that day comes, there will be a bike of indulged, lukewarm ministers from Holland, England, and Ireland, together with a bike of them at home, and some young things that know nothing; and they will all hyve together in a General Assembly and the red hands with blood, and the black hands of defection, will be taken by the hand, and the hand given them by our ministers; and ye will not ken who has been the persecutor, complier, or sufferer; and your bits of paper and drops of blood will be shut to the door, and never a word more of them; and ye and the like of you will get their backside." He give him another sore clap upon the shoulder, saying, "Keep mind of this, James Wilson, for, as the Lord lives, it will surely come to pass." James Wilson told me this shortly thereafter, and repeated it again the next General Assembly, when he and I, and many others, saw the accomplishment of this, in every particular, to our great grief.
In the begining of May, 1685, he came to the house of John Brown and Marion Weir whom he married before he went to Ireland,
