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for which he said he was many times obliged to pray for that woman. Some say, after that there was a change upon her to the better He lay in that barn till night, and then was conducted to some friend's house. Mrs. Punton gave him some warm milk; and a Chirurgeon came providentially to the house, who dressed his wounds.
General Dalziel came and called for James Punton, and took him away to Kirklistoun: When set down, the curator there, (another of the serpent's brood, who informed him) came and accused him before the general for shewing kindness to such a notorious rebel, for which he was carried to Edinburgh, and cast in prison, where he lay three months, and paid a thousand merks of fine.
Mr. Cargill, the next Sabbath, preached at Cairnhill, betwixt Loudon and Tweeddale, in his wounds and blood; for no danger nor distress could stop him in going about doing good, and distributing food to so many starving souls up and down the land, his time being short, that so he might finish his course with joy. He preached that day upon that text, And what shall I say, for the time would fail me. to speak of Gideon and Jephthae. At night some said to him, we think, Sir, praying and preaching go best with you when your danger and distress is greatest. He said, it had been so; and he hoped that it would be so, that the more that enemies and all others did thrust that he might fall, the more sensibly and more discernably the Lord had helped: And then, (as his ordinary was) as it had been to himself, repeated the following words. The Lord is my strength and song, and has become my salvation. That cxviii Psalm was the last Psalm he sung on earth, which he sang on the scaffold.
7thly, In the beginning of Novembrr 1680, governor Middleton being frustrated of his design at the Queensferry, and affronted by a few women, delivering the prey out of his and his soldiers' hands, consulted with James Henderson in Ferry, and laid down a hell-deep plot and trap to catch him, by forging and signing by different hands in the name of Baillie Adam in Culross, and Robert Stark in Milns of Forth, that serious zealous solid Christian,who
