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waiting for ſermon." He ſaid, “Let the people go to their prayers: for me, I neither can nor will preach any this day; for our friends are fallen, and fled before the enemy at Hamilton; and they are hanging and haſhing them down, and their blood is running like water."
11. After this, he was preaching in Galloway: in the forenoon he prayed earneſtly for the priſoners taken at and about Bothwell; but in the afternoon, when he began to pray for them, he halted and ſaid, "Our friends at Edinburgh, the priſoners, have done ſomething to ſave their lives that ſhall not do with them, for the ſea-billows ſhall be many of their winding-ſheets; and the few of them that eſcape, ſhall not be uſeful to God in their generation." Which was ſadly verified thereafter. That which the greateſt part of theſe priſoners did, was the taking of that bond, commonly called the Black Bond, after Bothwel, wherein they acknowledged their appearance in arms, for the defence of the gospel and their own lives, to be rebellion; and engaged themſelves never to make any more oppoſition: Upon the doing of which, theſe perfidious enemies promiſed them life and liberty. This, with the curſed and ſubtile arguments and advices of miniſters; who went into the New Yard, where they were priſoners, particularly Mr. Hugh Kenedy, Mr. William Crighton, Mr. Edward Jamieſon, and Mr. George Johnſton; theſe took their turn in the yard, where the priſoners were, together with a letter that was ſent from that Eraſtian meeting of miniſters, met at Edinburgh in Auguſt 1679, for the acceptance of a third indulgence, with a cautionary bend. Notwithſtanding of the enemies' promiſe, and the unhappy advice of miniſters not indulged, after they were enſnared in this foul compliance, they baniſhed 255, whereof 205 periſhed in the Orkney-ſea. This foul ſtep, as ſome of them told, both in their life, and when dying, lay heavy upon them all their days; and, that theſe unhappy arguments and advices of miniſters, prevailed more with
