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condition." He ſaid, "I cannot promiſe you; but if I can get any thing, ye ſhall not want it." A little while thereafter, he called, and ſaid. "Let not theſe people away, for I will come to them ſhortly." Which he did, and preached upon that text, The day being far ſpent, they conſtrained him to tarry all night. Where he broke out in ſtrange raptures, expreſſing his fears of the Lord's departure from theſe lands. He ſaid, "England for ſuperſtition and profanity, Ireland for ſecurity and formality, great ſhall thy ſtroke be! For in a few years, ye may travel forty miles in Ireland, and not get a light to your pipe!" Which came to paſs four years thereafter, in the laſt rebellion He ſaid alſo, "O Scotland! many, long and great ſhall thy judgments be, of all kinds, eſpecially the Weſt and South, for loathing and contempt of the goſpel, covenant-breaking, burning and burying, and ſhedding of innocent, precious, dear blood! O! all ye that can pray, tell all the Lord's people to ⟨try⟩, by mourning and prayer, to teagle him. O! ſee if we can teagle him, teagle him, teagle him, eſpecially in Scotland; for we fear he will depart from it." When ended, he ſaid, "Take ye that among you, and make a good uſe of it; for I have gotten it new and freſh out of heaven, having nothing of it this morning." The foreſaid John Muirhead, and the ſaid old woman, and others, told me, they were never witneſſes to ſuch a day, for many tears, both from preachers and hearers.
20. After this, the old woman longed to be home to Scotland, her huſband (whoſe name was Paton) being in danger, and hearing of ſuch a ⟨killing⟩ in Scotland, being 1685, one of the bloody years, upon ſcaffolds and in the fields and (indeed the din was no greater than the deed) a bark being to go off with paſſengers, ſhe reſolving to go along, went to take her leave of Mr Peden, and found him in a wood with John Muirhead, and others of our Scots ſufferers She told him her deſign, and he muſed a little, and then ſaid, "Go not away till I ſpeak with you." He took a turn thro' the wood, and when
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