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in the water of Ayr and Clyde, than ever the Highlandmen did." I lay in that chamber about three years ago, and the ſaid John Richman and his wife told me that theſe were his words, At other times, to the ſame purpoſe, ſaying, "O! the Monzies, the Monzies will be through the breadth and length of the South and Weſt of Scotland! O! I think I ſee them at our fireſides, ſlaying man, wife and children. The remnant will get a breathing; but they will be driven to the wilderneſs again, and their ſharpeſt hours will be laſt"
To the ſame purpoſe ſpoke the two following miniſters, viz. Mr. Thomas Lundie, a godly miniſter in the North of Rotray. His ſiſter, a Lady in that country, who died in the year 1683, gave the following account: That the ſaid Mr. Lundie, after ſome ſickneſs and ſeeming recovery again, which comforted them; one morning ſtaying longer than ordinary in his chamber, the foreſaid Lady knocked at chamber-door, on opening it, found him more than ordinary weighted: She aſked him the reaſon, ſeeing he was now better? Whereupon, ſmiling, he ſaid, "Within a few hours I will be taken from you! But, alas! for the day that I ſee coming upon Scotland The Lord has letten me ſee the Frenches marching with their armies through the breadth and length of the land, marching to their bridle-reins in the blood of all ranks, and that for a broken burnt and buried covenant! But neither ye nor I will live to ſee it." As alſo, one Mr. Douglas, a godly miniſter in Galloway, a little before his death, ſeeming as ſlumbering in his bed, his wife and other friends ſtanding by, when he awakened, he ſeemed more than ordinarily weighted, and groaned heavily, ſaying, "Sad days for Scotland!" His wife aſked him, "What will be the inſtruments?" He ſaid, "The ſwords of foreign enemies: They will be heavy and ſharp, but not long; but they will not be yet, but not long to them. But the glorious days on the back of them, to poor waſted Scotland!"
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