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when and where the Lord had heard and anſwered them in the day of their diſtreſs, and now they were in a great ſtrait. Waving his hand to the weſt, from whence he deſired the wind, and ſaid, "Lord give us a loof-full of wind: Fill the ſails, Lord, and give us a freſh gale, and let us have a ſwift paſſage over to the bloody land, come of us what will."-John Muirhead, Robert Wark, and others who were preſent, told me, that when he began to pray, the ſails were all hanging ſtraight down; but ere he ended, they were all like blown bladders: they put out the waiters and other people, and got a very ſwift and ſafe paſſage. The twenty-ſix Scots ſufferers that were with him, having provided themſelves with arms, and being deſigned to return to Scotland, there being then ſuch a noiſe of killing, and indeed the din was no greater than the deed, it being then in the heat of killing time, in the end of February, 1685, when at exerciſe in the Bark, he ſaid, "Lord thou knoweſt theſe lads are hot ſpirited, lay an arreſt upon them, that they may not appear; their time is not yet; though Monmouth and Argyle be coming, they will work no deliverance" At that time there was no report of their coming, for they came not for ten weeks thereafter. In the morning after they landed; he lectured before they parted, ſitting upon a braeſide, where he had fearful threatnings againſt Scotland, ſaying, the time was coming, that they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nithſdale, Ayr and Clydeſdale, and not ſee a recking houſe, nor hear a cock crow. And further ſaid, that his ſoul trembled to think, what would become of the indulged, backſlidden and upſitten miniſters of Scotland; as the Lord lives, none of them ſhall ever be honoured to put a right pin in the Lord's tabernacle, nor aſſert Chriſt's kingly prerogative, as head and king of his church To the ſame purpoſe, ſaid the never-to-be-forgotten Mr. Donald Cargill, within eight hours o his martyrdom, that he feared, though there were not another miniſtry in all
