THE

Life and Pronliecies JL

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Mr. Alexander FeJen,

Late Minifter of fiiae Gofpel,

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lis Remarkable Letter to' the Prifoners in Dun- notaf-Caflle, July i68j

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THE

Life and Prophecies

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Mr. Alexander Peden,

IN T//0 PARTS.

PART I.

Mi i. IY 1 R. Alexander Peden was born in the parifl ofSorn, in the (heriffdom of Ayr. After that he pal his courfe at the College, he was employed for fbme time to be fchool-mafter,prefcenter and fceffion-clerk t< Mr. John Guihrie, miniiter of the gafpel at Tarbolton When he was about to enter on the miniftry, a younj •woman fell with child, in adultery, to a fervant in th' houfe where he ftayed; when fhe found herfelf to be fo fl-.e told the lather thereofj who faid, I’ll run for it, am go to Ireland, i.'.ther it upon Mr. Peden, he has mor to help you to bring it up :he having a fmall heritage than 1 have. The ftme day that he was to get his li cence, ihe came in before the Prefbytery and laid,! hea| you are to licence Mr. Peden to be a minifter ; but do ii not, for I am with child to him. He being without r the time, was called in by the moderator ; a’id bein queftioned aboi.t 4ir, he faid I am furprifed, I canne fpealc ; but let none entertain an ill thought of me, fa 1 am utterly free of it, and God wijl vindicate me in li: own time ana way. He went home, and walked at water-iide upwards of 24 hours, and would neither e; nor drink, but faid, 1 have got what I was leekir g, an I will be vindicated, and that poor unhappy lafs will pa dear for it in her life, and will make a difinal end, an

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( )' for tlvis farfcit of grief that (he? hath given rne, there fhail never one of her fex come into my bofom : And, accordingly he never married. There are various re- portM' of t^e way that he was vindicated : home fay, the time the was in child-birth, Mr. Guthrie charged her to

Igive account who was the father of that child, and dii- ijcharged the woman to be helpful to her, until the did it. iSome fay that flie confefled j others, that fhe remained obftinate. Some of the people, when I made enquiry about it in that country-fide, affirmed, that after the Preibytery had been at ail pains about it, and could get no fatisfacltion.tltey appointed Mr. Guthrie to give a full relation of the whole before the congregation, which, he <iid ; and the fame day thedhther of that child being orefent, when he heard Mr, Guthrie begin to read, he ftood up and delired him to halt, and laid, “ I am the father ot that child, and I defired her to father it on Mr. Pedeh, which has been a great trouble of confcierce :o me ; and I could not get reft till I came home to de- Iplare it ” However it is certain, that after fhe wai •jparried, every thing went crofs to them; and tv- y

cent from place to place, and were reduced to great overty. At laft fhe cam .*, to that fame fpot-of ground here he ftayed upwards of 24 hours, and made away

jkrith heyfeif. 2. After this he was three years fettled minifter at

.'few Glenluce in Galloway, and when he was obliged, uy the violence and tyranny of that time, to leave that arilh, he lectured upon Adis xx. 17. to tive.end, and

!reached upon the 3 tft verfe in the forenoon, “ Fhere- are watch, and remember that far the fpace of three ears, I ceafed not to warn every one, nigh*- and day, nth. tears.” Afferting that he had declared the wh -tie ounfel of God, and had kept nothing back ; and pro-

jjefied that he was free of the blood of all fouls. And, jp the afternoon, he preached on the 3 2d verfe, “ And low, brethren, 1 commend you to God, and to the word ; f his grace, which is able to build you up, and 'to gi ve

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\;J h:c h was- s wet ping day in that kirk; the greateft part could j'Ct contain thtmfei\es : Fe many tunes re<iutfted them to be iller.t; but they forrowed moll of -11, •*hen he told them that they fliould never lee his face in that pulpit again.— He continued until night ; and when he clofed the f ulptt doer, he knocked hard upon it three times with his Eible, faying three times over, I arreft in my mailer’s name, that never one enter there, but luch as come in tv the door, as I did. Accordingly, neither curate nor indulged minifter ever entered that pulpit, until after the revolution, that a Frefpyterian rninilter opened it.

1 had the account fror* old perfons in that parifli, who were witnefl'es to it, worthy of all credit.

3. After tins he joined with that boneft and zealous handful in the year 1666, that was broken at Pentland- hills, and came the length of Clyde with them, where he had a melancholy view of their end, and parted with them there. James Cubifcn, of Pahichbeaties, my in- former, to whom he told this, lie faid to him, “ Sir, you did well tha: pt'Vted with them, feeing you was perfuaded they woukl fall rn:d flee before the enemy. Glory, Glory to God, that he font me not to hell imme- diately ! for I fhould'have flayed with them though 1 fhould have been cut all in pieces.”

4. rJ hat night the Lord’s people fell,and fled before the enemy at Pentland hills, he was in a friend’s houfe in Carrick, fixty miles from Edinburgh ; his landlord feeing him aiighty troubled, enquired how it was with him; he faid, fi To-raorrow I will fpeak with you •,’* and defired fpme candle. That night he went to bed, the next morning calling early to his landlord, faid, “ I Lave fad news to tell you, our friends that were together in arms, appearing for Chrifl’s imerefl, are now broker., killed, taken and fled every man —• He faid, “ Why do you fpeak fo ? There is a great part of cur friends prifoners in Edinburgh.” About forty-

< * ) eight hours thereafter, they were fully confirmed in the truth of it.

5. After this, in June 1673., ^ias f;1hen by Ma- jor Cockburn, in the houfe of Hugh Fergulon, of Krockdow,in Carrick,who conftraintnl him to tarry all night. Mr. Peden told him, that it would be a dear night’s quarters to them both. Accordingly they were both carried prifoners to Edinburgh. Hugh Fergufoa

Bwas fined in a thoufand merks, for refetting,harbouring and converting with him. The council ordered fifty

y. pounds fterling to be paid to the Major out of the fines, d and ordained h;m to divide twenty-five pounds (ferling i |a<rong the party that apprehended him. Some time J after examination, he was fent prifbner totheBaf,

iwhere, and at Edinburgh, he remained until Decem- ilber 1678, that he uasbardfhed

6. While prifoner in the Bafs, one Sabbath-morning ibeing about the public worfhip of God, a young lafs

d about 13 or 14 years of age, came to the chamber-door dmocking with loud laughter”: He laid, ‘f Poor thing, iithou mocks and laughs at the worfhip of God, but ere iflong God fhall wrrite fuch a hidden furpriling judgment ton thee, that fhall fray thy laughing, and thou fhalt not defcape it.” Very portly after, (he wac walking upon iithe rock, and there came a blah of wind and fweeped ‘i,her into the fea, where fhe nerifhed.

While prifcnor there,one day walking upon the rock, itjfbme foldier-, paffing by him, one of them faid, “ Devil Intake him He laid, “ Fy, fy, poor man, thou knoweft dnot wliat thou art faying ; but thou wilt repent that.’* ilAt which word the foldier Hood attonifiied, and went :to the guard diftracled, crying aloud for Mr. Peden j

.faying, the devil would immediately take him away. «He came to him again, and found him in his right mind, fend r de*-p convidEons of great guilt. The guard aeing <|to change, they delired him to go to his arms ; he re- t'ifuied. and faid,he would lift no arms againft Jefu' Chrift •Ms Ce*aie,and perfecute his people, he had done that too

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( 6 > long, 'll!? governor threatened him with death to- morrow about ten of the clock; he confidently faid three times, though he fhould tear all his body in pieces, he fhculd never lift arms that way. About three days after, the governor pm him out of the garrifon, letting him afhore. He having a wife and children, t®ok a houfe in Eaft Lothian, where he became a fingular Chriftian. Mr. Peden told thefe aftonifhing paiTages to the fore- faid John Cubifon and others, who informed me. .

7. When brought from the B<ds to Edinburgh, and fcntence of banifhment pafTed upon him in Dec. 1678, and fixty more fellow-prifoxiers, for the fame caufe, to go to America, never to be fcen in Scotland again, ij»- der the pain of death ; aft?r this fentence way patt, he feveral times faid, that the {hip was not yet built that fhould take him and thefe prifoners to Virginia, cr any other c: the Englifh plantations in America— One James Kay, a foiid and grave Chriftian, being one of them, who lives in or about the Water of Leith, told me, that Mr. Peden laid to him, 4* James, when your wdfe comes in, let me fefe her which he did. a fter feme difeourf., he called for a drink, and when he fought a blefftnp, he faid, “ Good Lord, let not James Kay’s wife mifs her hufband, till thou return him to her in peace and fafety ; which we art fure will be iooner than either he of fhc h looking for.” A cord- tngly, the fame day month that he parted with her at Leith, became home to her at the Water ef Leith.”

8 When they were on fhif board at the Water of Leith, there was a report, that the enemies were 10 fi nd down thumbkins to keep them.from rebelling ; at the repoit of this, they were difeouraged : Mr. Peden came above the deck and aid,’“ Whv are ye difeourag- ed ? V ou need not fear, there will neither thumhkins j nor bootkins come here : lift up your hearts and head,' lor the day of your redemption draweth near ; if we were once at London, we will be all fet at liberty.’’— And when failing in the \ >j :gc, praying publicly, he

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C 7 ). I faid, “ Lord, fuch Is tlie enemies hatred at thee, and

itj maiue at us,for thy fake, that they will not let us ftay : i in thy land of Scotland, to ferve thee tl. o* lome of us

II have nothing but the canopy of thy heavens above us, .i|i and the earth to tread upon *, but, Lord, we blefs, thy

i name, that will cut Ihort our voyage, and fruftratethy ' enemies of their wicked defign, that they will not get us

where they intend •, and fome of us lhall go richer home j than we came from home.” James Pride, who lived I in Fife, an honeft man, being one of them, he faid

many times,he could affert the truth of this,for he came fafely home, and befide other things, he bought two cows, and before that, he never had one. I had thefe ; t ounts both from the foreiaid James Kay, and Ro- bert Punton, a known public man, worthy of all credit, who was alfo under the fame fentence, who lived in the parifh of Dalmony, near Oueensferry.

9. When they arrived at London, the'lkipper who ■ received them at Leith, was to carry them no farther; if the (kipper, who was to receive them there, and carry i i them to Virginia, came to fee them, they being repre- •I fented to him as thieves, robbers, and evil doers ; but 'i when he found they were all grave Ctiriflian men, :i banilhed for Prefbyterian principles, he laid he would |j| fail the iea with none fuch. In this confuJion, that the

one (kipper would not receive them, and the other would keep them no longer, being expenjive to main- tain them, they were all let at liberty. Others reported that both (kippers got compliments from friends at

t London; however, it is certain they were lafely let free, without any impolltion of bonds or oaths ; and friends at London, and in their way homewards thi o* England, (hewed much kindnefs unto them.

10. That dnraal day, June 22d. 1C79, at Bothwel- l bridge, that the Lord’s people fell, and fled before the 3i| enemy, he was forty miles ciiftant, near the border, •1 ‘and kept himfelf retired until the middle of the dav, 1$ that Joiue friends laid to him, “ iur, the people are

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f 8 ) waiting for fermon.” He faid, Let the people go to their prayers : for me, I neither can nor will preach any this daV ; for our friends are fallen an • /led before the enemy at Hamilton ; and they are hanging and haihing them down, and their blood is running like water.”

i r. After this, he was preaching in Galloway : in the forenoon he prayed earneftly for the prifoners taken at and about Bothwel) ; but in the afternoon, when he began to pray for them lie halted and (aid, “Our friends at Edinburgh, the prifoners, have done fomcthing to fave their lives that fhall not do with them, for the iea- biliows ihall be many of their winding-lheets j and the few of them that efcape, Ihall not he ufeful to God in their generation " Which was fadly verified the1’- after. That which the greateit part of thefe pri oners did, was the taking ol that bond, fommonly called the B'oci Bond, after Bothwel, wherein they acknowledged their appearance in arms, for the defence of the go.'pel and their oWn lives, to be rebellion; and engaged themfelves never to make any more oppoiition ; Upon the doing of which, thele perfidious enemies promiled them life and liberty This, with the curled and fub- tile arguments and ad'fices of minifters, who went into the New Yard, where they were pri.foners particu- larly Mr- Hugh Kenedy, Mr. William Crighton, Mr. Edward Jamiefon, and Mr. George Johnlton ; thefe took their turn in the yard, where the prisoners were, together with a letter that was lent from that Eraftian meeting of minifters, met at Edinburgh in Auguft 1679, for the acceptance of a third indulgence, with a cautionary bond. Notwithftanding of the ene- mies’ promife, and the unhappy advice of minilfers not indulged, after they wert? eninared in this foul com- pliance, they banilhed 255, whereof 205 perilhed in the Orkney-fea. This foul ftep, as lome of them told, both in their life, and when dying, lay heavy upon them all their days ; and, that thefe unhappy, argu- ments and advice* of painifters, prevailed more with

( 9 .) ithem than the enemies’ promiie of life and liberty. 1 In Aiiguft 1679, fifteen of Bothwel prifoners jindichnents or death. Mr. Edward Jamiefon, a worthy iPrefbyterian miniffer. as Mr. Woodrow calls him was fent from that Eraftian meeting of minilb:rs, into

jthe Tolbooth to theie fifteen, who urged the lawful- Iriefs of taking the bond to lave their lives ; and the irefufal of it would be a refhcti-ni to religion, and the :caule they had appeared for; and a throwing away iltheir lives, for which their friends would not be able :to vindicate them; He prevailed with thirteen of them, which fouKed in thS^ftomachs of fome of thofe ithirteen, and lay heavy upon them both in their life and death. The priioners taken at and about the time

1 of Bothwel, were reckoned about fifteen hundred. I The faithful Mr. John Blackader did write to thefe i'lprii'oncrs, diffuading them from that foul compliance ; rand feme worthy perfons of theie prifoners, whom he wrote t6, faid to me with tears, that they flighted his •advice, and fwallowed the unhappy advices of thefe rminifters who were making psace with the enemies of i.God, and followed their foul fteps, for which they •would go a mourning to their graves. I heard the fame [•Mr. Blackader preach his laft public fermon, before his ifalling into tiie enemies’ hands, in the night-time in lithe fields, in the parifh of Livingftone, upon the fide hof the Muir, at h^w-houfe, on the 23d of March, ( after Bothwel, where he lefhired upon Micah iv from gthe 9th' verfe, where he alferted, That the nearer the ildelivery, our pains and fhoWers would come thicker Hand forer upon us ; and that we had been long in the lifields, but ere we were delivered, we would go down >to Babylon. That either Popery would overfpread Ithis land, or be at the breaking in upon us, like an (inundation of water. And preached upon that text, ILei 10 triuti be meve 1 iv-th tutfe rJJl cliors fur ye yaur- f lves know, that \e ace appointed thereunto Where he infifled on ilvhat moving and fhaking diipeniatious

( !0 ) the Lord had exercifed his people with in former agesj efpecially that man of God, that went to Jeroboam at Bethel, and delivered his commiffion faithfully, and yet * was turned out of the way by an old lying pjophet ; how moving and humbling the manner of his death was to all Ifrael ! And earneftly requefted us to take good heed to what miniilers we heard, and what advice we followed. When he prayed, he bleffed the i ord that he was free of both band and rope ■, and that he was as clearly willing to hold up the public bleft dand- ard of the gofpel as ever : Ancl^faid, “ The Lord re- buke, give repentance and ^jrgivenefs to thefc mini- fters that perfuaded thele prifoners to take that, bond.” For their perifbing by fea, was more moving and, ibock- ing to him, than if lome thoulands of them had been, flain in the field. He was thereafter taken, the 6th of April, by Major Johnfton, in Edinburgh, and de- tained prifoner in the Bafs, where he died, As the intereft of Chrift lay near his heart through, his life, amongft his laft words he faid, “ i he Imrd wifi, defend his own caul'e.” *

12. After the public murdering of thefe two w*:*hy women-martyrs, Ifabel Alifon and Marion Harvie, in the Grafs-market of Edinburgh, January io8i, he was in Galloway ; a profeflbr of fome note, who had more carnal wit and policy than to fufi'er him, to be boneft and faithful, after reafoninr upon the grounds of their fufferings, affirmed thot tney would never be reckoned among the number of the martyrs- Mr Peden f^id, after muiing a little, “ Let alone, you will never be honored with fueh a death : And for what you have faid againft thefe two worthy lafles, your death will be both hidden and furpriling.” Which was veay fhortly thereafter; the m..n Banding before the fire, fmocking his pipe, dropt down dead, and that without fpeaking more.

13. In the month of June 1682, he was in the houfe of James Brown, inJPaddockholm, above Douglas, John

] May, K593. He lectured at night upon Amos viii. ! and repeated thefe words in the pth veri’e, three times, (And J wi/i rife ugiinj} the houfe of Jerooiatn with

the fword He laid his hand on the faid John, and faid, 1 “ Encourage yourfoJf in the Lord, and hold him faft, John, for you will win up yonder ihortly, and get on your braws.” That night he'went to the fields •, and to morrow* about fix o’clock, John went to feek him,

:) and found him coming to tne houfe.. - He faid, “ John, let us go from this houfe, for the devil is about it, and will take his prey with him ” John faid, “ We will take breakfalt ere we go, it is a queition when we will get the offer again.” He anfwered, u No, no, I will not eat bread in this place, our landlord is an unhappy man, the devil will get him fhortly, for he will hang himfelf.” Which very fhortly came to pafs : His daughter, Jean Brown, was the firft that got him in her arms, hanging in the ftaole She was reckoned by all, to be a grave Chriftian lafs, but from that day

l never had her heal.h, and died of a decay at laft, after {he had been fome time in prifon for her principles. This paffage the fame John Wihbn reported feveral times to many, and fome alitfe can bear witnefs to the truth of it.

14. In the year 1680, after the murdering of Mr. Cameron, and thefe worthies with him at Airdf- mofs, he was near Maehline, in the fhire of Ayr; one Robert Prown, of Crofs-houfe, who lived near New-Mills, and one Hugh Pinaneve, factor to the Earl of Lothian, (tabled their horfes in that houle where fce was, and went to a fair in Macbline ; and, in the after- noon, when they came to take away their horfes, they got a drink, and in the time of it, the faid Hugh, a wicked wretch, both in principle and practice, broke out in a railing againft iufterers, particularly againft Mr. Cameron ;.Mr Pedsn being in .mother room over-

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. f 12 ) hearing all, was fo grieved, that he came to the cham- ber-door, and fnid to the (aid Hugh, “Sir, hold vour peace, e'er twelve o’clock thou lhalt know what tor a man Mr. Cameron was, God fhall punith that blaf- phemous mouth, and curfed tongue of yours, in fuch a manner, as {hall be adonidiing to all that fhall fee you and {hall let you up a beacon to all railing Rablhak hs ” Robert Brown knowing Mr Peden, hailed to his horfe, being perluaded that Mr Peden’s words would not fall to the ground, and fearing that fome miithief might behd him for being in the faid Hugn’s company, he rode hard home. Robert went to bis own houfe, and Hugh to the Ea'l’s houfe, and calhng off his boots, he was {truck with luch a fi knefs and pain th ough \ his body, with his mouth fo wide, and his tongue hanging fo far out, in a fearful manner, that they lent for the laid Robert. Being ufed to take blood, he got fome blood of him, but all in Vain : he died beforft midnight The faid Robert, an old man, told me this pafi'age when in prifon together.

15. In the year 1682, he was in Kvle, and preached upon that text, ‘Z he flotvin plowed upon m\ ba k%

ana drew /eng heir Jurrcius Wheie he faid, “ Would ye know who firft yoked this plow ? It was curled Cain, when he drew his furrows lb long and deep, that he let out the heart-blood of his brother Abel ; and his curfed feed has, and will gang fummer and wintef, froft and frelh weather, till the world s end ; and at the fotfnd oi the lall trumpet, when all are in a flame, their theets will burn, and their Iwingle-trees will fall to the ground ; the plov. men will lofe their gripes of the plow, and the gadmen will throw away their gads ; and then, O the yelling and Ihrieking that will be among all this curled feed, clapping their hands, and crying to the hills and mountains to cover them from the face of the Lamb, and of him that fits upon the throne, for their hatred of him, and malice at his people."

. ( x3 . ) After fernon, wlierx mar -yhig a pair of folks, wheat

1 the man had the woman bv the hand, he faid, “ In- i! deed mm yon have a bonny bride by the hand, I fee

i a coveteoim devil in her; fhe is botn a thief and a whore, i let he1' go, vcu wiU be aihamed of her ” The man keep- I ing fa t her hand he (aid, 0 You will not take my ad«

; vice, but it will tend to thy difgrace.” After marriage 1 when praying, he faid, “ Good Lord, many a piow : hat a been yo'ed on the b ck ct the church in Scot and Paga >s yoked their , Anuchrfd tu>ked his, ind Prelacy

\ hers, and now the plagued EraSHm indulged, thee have 'yoked theirs, and it ill becomes the n ; good Lord cut their thee^, that the fvvr g!e trees miy fall to the

jg ound ” Eniign John Kira and was witnefs to this Herman and marriage he .was my dear acquaintance, who told me fevcral dma> o 7 this, and more of that fer-

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icf folk , ue 1 lid to the one, “ Stand bv, L wul nor mr- ry you tub day ” fhe bridegroom was an;;ioas to know

Jthe reafin, afier e quiriag priviteiy, ae laid, 4‘ Yoii \ will thank me for it ifterwards, and think v jurfe f jweil 4U it of her for ill - is vmii ch id t » another wife’s jhuiband which was in itter of fa£t, as ti ne af.erw iris t difeovered.

17. Shortly after that fad flreke at Bnthw -I, he ;i went to Ireland, but did not ft ay long at that time ; in ihis travels through Gaiioway, he came to a^ronfe, a id 1 looking in the good man’s face, he laid “ fhfy c dl 'you an honeft man, but if you be fo, you look nor i ke Jit, you will not long keep that*name, but wvd diicover lyourfelf to be what you are.” And ihortiy after, as nvas maue to flee for th - :p-flealing In th t 'hort ti ne

1 he was in Ireland, the Govcrnbr required of all pr iby- uterian min?fttrs that were in Ireland, tbit thev :h »uid ’give it under their ha i l, that they na 1 no ice li » i to the late rebellion- at BoxhwcLoridge, m Scotl ui J. 1 id that they did not approve of it. which the inoit part-

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( T4 > &»<!, and fcnt Mr Thomas Gowans a ^cotfman, and one .Mr Paion ^rom th. north of Ireland to Dublin, to pre- fent it to the Lord Lieutenant, the which, when Mr. Peden heard, he faid, “ Mr Gowans and his brother Mr. Paton are lent and gone the devil’s errand, but God will arreft them bv the gate ” Accordingly Mr. Gowans bv the way ^as {truck witli a lore licknefs, and Mr Patou fell from his horle, and broke or crulhed his leg,and both of them were detained beyond '■xpect'tion. I had this account h orn fome worthy Chriftian.- when I teas in Ireland

18. In the year ibSa, he married John Prown in Kvle, ai his own houfe in Priefthali, that lingular Chriftian, upon Marion Weir; after marriage he faid to the bride, ‘£ Marion, you have got a good man to be your hulbaud bu- you will not enjoy him long j prize his company, and keep linen by you for his wind- ing Ihect, for ;ou will need it, when you are not looic- ing for it, and it will be a bloody ode.”

This came ladiy to pafs in the Peginning of May, 1685, as afterwards fhail appear

19. Alter this in tne year i68t he went to Ireland again, and came to the houfe of William Steel in Glen- Vrharry, in the county ol Antrim, he enquired at Mrs, Steel, if Oh wanted a fervant for thrtfhing victual ? She faid, they did; and enquired wh t his wages were a-day, or a week. He lakl, The common rat< was a common rule ; townich ftie aflented At night be was put to the barn to bed with the fervant lad, and that n-ght he fpent in prayer and groaning, up and dowa the bam. To-morrow he threlhcd vhftual with the lad, anu he next mghr he fpent the fame way ; the fecond cL.v i; the morning, the lad faid to his miftrefs, this jnar fleeps none, but groans and prays all Right; l get no fleep for him. He tbreflaes verv well, and is not fp tr- sing of himfelf, though I think L has not been meef ^ith it; for he can do nothingpot^e botteling and or- dering of me barn ; and when I put the barn in order, fie goes to fuch a place, and there he prays for the af-

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filch'd church of Scotland, and names fo many p'eopTfe ia the furmce. Ho wrought the fecond diy, and his miftreis w itched and overheard him praj ing, as the lad had (aid . at night (he d< tired her hufband to enquire if he was a mininer, which he did and defired him to bs free with him, an ) he ilioul 1 not only be ho emmy to him, but a friend to dm. Mr Peden faid, he was not zfhamed m his office and gave an account of his circum- ftances : he was no more let to work, nor to lie with the lad, and he ftaid a confklerable time in that place, and was a helled inftrunvmt in the converlion of fome, and civilizing of others, though that place was noted fv>r a wild, rude people, and the fruit o( his labour ap- pear-. unto-this day There was a fervantdais in that houfe, that he could not look upon but with frowns, and iometimes when at family-worihip he faid, pointing to her with a frowning countenance, “ You come from, the barn and from the byre, reeking in your iufts, and" fit* down among us we do not want you nor none bach ” At laft he faid to "William bred and his wife, 41 Put that unhappy lafs from your houfe.for Ihe will be a ftain to your Lmily , tor Ihe is with chi'd .md will murder it, and will be punifhed for the fame which accordingly came to pals, and Ihe was burnt at Craig Fergus, which is jheufual punifhment of murderers of chddren there. 1 had this account from John Muirtn ad who ftaid much in that houfe, and othec Chriffan people when I was in Ireland.

20. On the fecohd of Auguft, 1684, he wa? in s ChnlHan Scot; woman's houfe, called Margaret Lum- bti nor •, that day there was an extraordinary Ihower of big hail, Inch as he had never feen the like. She faid, yiiat can be the meaning of this 1 xtraordinary hail ? he laid, <• Vv ithin a few years there will be an extraordi- nary P or in and ihower of judgment poured out upon Ire.anti ; but h argaret, you fhall not live to fee it.” At d itcordu gly liae died before that rebellion j aaid the rt Ir had a iau accompiifhment at Deny, and the water of i3c,yu. 0

( i6 ^ 21. On the fecond of February, T685, he in the

houfc of one Mr Vernor, at night he and Job.- Kil- patrick, Mrs. Vemor’s father, a very old worthy Ghrif- tian, he fa d to him, “ John the wor^d .may weei want you and me,” John faid, *• Sir, I have been veiv fruit- lefs and ufelefs all my days, and the world m <y well want me, but your death will be a great lofs.” “ Well John, faid he, yen and I fhall be both in heaven fhort. Iy*, but though you be much older than I my foul will get the foreftart of yours, for I will be firfl in heaven; but your body will get the advantage of mine, for ye will get reft in vour grave until the refurr<-&ion ; but for me I muft go to the bloody land ,this was his or- dinary way effpeaking bloody or finful land, wlien he ipake of Scotland] and die there 5 and the enemies out of. their great wickedntfs, will bft nay corpfe intoano-

.ther place ; but I am very indifferent, John, for I know my body lhail lie among the duft of the martyrs, and though they ihould take my old bones and make whitt- les oi them, they vv'll all be gathered' together, in the morning of the refurreftion ; and then, John, you and I, and all that will be found having on Chrift’s right- eoufnefs, will get day-about with them, and give our hearty alfenc to their eternal fentence of damnation ” The fame night after this difconrfe, while about family w or Hi ip, ab»nt 10 or ii o'clock, expLiining the portion offcriptiye he read, lie fuddenly halted and heark nedu and laid three times over, what’s this I hear? ana. hearkened again a little, and clapt his hands ami faid,

I hear a*dead fliot at the throne of Britain, let him go yonder, he has been a black fight to thde lands, ei'pecially to poor Scotland : ws are all quit of h in ; there lias been many a wafted prayer wared on him.” .And it was concluded by ail, tbe fains night, that im happy man .Chatlei If. ciied. I had this account from John Muirhead and others who were prelent, u/d con- firmed in the truth of it, by fgme worthy Ciiriftians when I was in Ireland,

( tj y 22. Upon the 4th of February idSj.he preached at

'i a woodiide near the laid Mr. VConor’s houf ; he read ! the whole of thexbx piaim ; after reading, he charged I his hearers, that none of them open their mouthsto fing, j but thole that cou.d do it knowingly and believing!/ ; | for fome few lines few opened their n.outln •, but as j John A’uirhead and John Wac.del, who were prefent,

! /two folid Chriftiasis and great fuiFerer- who lived and i died in the pari'h^s of Catn'Julhethen and Shots.) faid | to me, they and (o tie others, could not contain and for- I bear fmging, but l.n'-ke out with th.irwhole hearts and

1 whole ftre t , to th t they were never wltnefs to fuch I loud Img ng, througn the whole pfalm After the fing- i ing, in prefacing, hr cried out, “ Pack and let us go to :| Sjcotiand, let us-dee from one devouring 1 word-and go t to another •, th?,poor h.meftlacu in Scotland, arerun- i: ning upon the hi s, am' have little of either meat or i drink but cold and hunger ; and the bloody enemy are j puriliing and murdering them, wherever ikey find them, i t’-u-ir blood is running tike .vater upon ihtffblds and I fields-, rife, go and take part with them, for we fear ;| they bar us out of heaven, \>h ! lecure Ireland, a. I dreadtul day i coming upon thee within a few years, !' taat they fhall rile man' miles, and 'hall not fee a reck- i ing houfe n thee Oh ! hunger, Derry, many a pale j face lhaii oe in thee ; and fire, fire upon a town, whofe i name l have forgot which was all burnt to alhes. J his

had an exaeft accomplilhmert four ye*rs thereafter. And 1, for the piofanity of lingiand, the formality andfecurity

of Ireland, for the loathing ai d contempt of the gof- pel, covenant breaking and innocent blood fhed in

j- Scotland, none of thefe lands fhail elcape, er: all be < done. But no withftanding of all this, I’ll tell vou

good news, keep in mind his year, month and day, and remember tnat I told you that the enemies' have got a ifiot beneath their right wing, and they may rile and fiy like a ikot-bird, but ere tnis day feven years, the ifvongeft of them all fhall fail.” Then upon the iixtju

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f 18 ) he was in that weed all day, and at night he came to the laid Mr. Vernor’s lioui’e, where leveralot our Scots iufferers were ; he laid, <£ Why are ye i'o riifcourag^d ? I know ye have got ill newr of the cre.idful murder of our friends in Scotland ; but I will cell you good news, that unhappy, treacherous, lecherous m#n, who has Baade the Lord’s people in Scotland tremble thefe years bygone, has got hi. laft glut in a lordly dilh from his brother, and he is lying with his tongue cold in his mouth.” The news of this came no: to Ireland for 24 hours tiler after The for. faid John Muirheau and John Waduel, and others of our Scots fufferers, who had heard hi n preach the Sabbath-day before con- clu ied this was the hot beneath t'heright wing that ns fpoke of. Charles II dying the Friday’s nrght be:ore

23. After this he longed to be out of Ireland, what through the fearful appre hen lions of that diirnaldayof rebellion n Ireland that came upon it four years there- after, arid he might take part with the fufferer? of Set riant!.'rift came near the cojut one morning ; J f

: n JV’iiirhead came to nim lying within a hedge: he ia;J, “ Have ye any news, John f” John faidr “ t here is great fear cj the irilh a.iling.” He laid, No no.. John : the time of tneir anting was not yet; bin they wid rile and dreat fu! will it be at iait. lie was long c'eub.cd waitii g for a bark, not daring to go t public ports, but to fame remote ert ek of the lea.— Alexander Cordon of 1 Kinftu n, in Gallowav. ha. agreed with one, but Mr. Peden vouid not lau the fei w th him, having lome forelight ot what he did profe afterwards. In the be- ginning of Augv.lt, before jliis Isi..lluir* was relieved at i.nterken patn, going Irom Dumfries to Edinburgh, priforitr, when tbb news of it came to Ireland, our ikovs luffereis their acqucii^ance were glad oi the news elp^cially that Kn ftuir hadeicaped, lie iaul, Vv'hat mean all this Kinltuiring ? Flute is tome of them re- lieved there, thrt one of them is wprtii many of him ; for all will be aliiamed of him ere ail be done.” Being

( Ip ) i;i this ftrait, he faid to Robert Wark, an old worthy Chridiun, \\ ortlry of credit, “ Robe):, and take fuch a man withyou and the lirft bark ye can rind ccm- pel them, for they will De like the dogs in Egypt, not

oone of them will move their tongue againlt you.” Accordingly, Robert and his comrade found it out fo,

land brought her to that lecret place w'.ere he was. •‘When Robert and Iris comrade came and told him, he iwas glad, and very kind and free ; but ite teemed un- der a cloud at that time He faid, Lads, iiiave ioft

fmy profpeft, wherewith I was * ont to look over to the bloody land, and tell vou and othci s, what enemies |and friends were doing: • ie devil and I puddles and iriJcs time about upon one another; out it I were up- Ipermoft again, I fhall ride hard, and Ipurgaw well: I have been prayiug fora fwift pall-ge over t- the iin-

If ul land, come of us what will. And now Alexander Gordon is away with my prayer-wind ; but it were good for the remnant in ..cotund, he never law it ; for

las the Lord live , he lhaR wound thatTwterelt ere lie-

|go off the ■ age ” | I his ladly came to pafs in his life, and wa- a re- aprccch o it at his death,— A lit; le before they came off, |he baptifed a child to lolm v-laxwell a Glafgow man, who was fled over from the periecution . ia ha difeourie be ore bsptilm, he burft out into a > atpiure, foretelling

|that black day that was to come upon It eland, and lad days to bcotland, and after ail this was iu come good day .v-rs Mrs. Maxwell or ary fciph.Hglten, the mo- ther of the child, ye: .live Ljiaigo,v, tyid me this, that ir the time lie was aiierting ;hcle things, Ine was thinking and wondering what ground of aiiuraricc- he had for them, he cried aloud, making his han« at her, and ia'd, “ Woman thou art thinking anu won .ering

jjwithin thyfelf, whether I be fpeakhig thofe tilings out Jjof ihe virions of my own head, or it 1 betaughL by the jppirit of God ; I tell thee woman^ thou fhait live and jifee that 1 am not mifraken.

( 2° ) She told me, tha1: {he was very lately delivered and

out of 1 er great delire ;o have her child baptized be- fore he came off, that fhe took prevail too loon ; anc being weak, nd 1o lurprifed with telling her the thoughts or her heart, that the was in danger of falling off the chair - Atthi? excrci'e alto he ‘old them, that he coul not win uff till he got this done, and this was ail the dunk money he'had left in Ireland, and to the family, pointing to the landlord tor all >he kindneis he b ad met with irom them vfter baptitm they gotj bre kfaft ; there was- plenty of b ead upon the tabie, anii teek ng a blening, h* put his hand beneath the br ad. holding it up with m ' _h atledfion and! tears, (aidj “ i-o d, there is a well-covered tao’t. and pent/c! b’- cad ; but what comes of the poor young kindly honefk 1 Rcnw ch, thatfhames us all, in ftayingand hold ng up hi fainting'mother's h’ad when of all th» chikiutii ilie has brought forth, there is none v ill avowedly take her by the r.and ; and the poor, cold hu’ gry lads nponi the hills r For the ' onour c/ hit e cwn au e, let them) not ftarve ; thou caui’ed a ravenous bird, greedy cj hcili it elr, to feed Elijah; and thou fee tnv p^opieini the wiiderncis with angeis food, an 1 blefled a few loavc- ane) imall lithe', arui made them iuflicieui for ma- ny ; and had experience ci w^ant, wearinets, cold and hunger, and ermn.ics e.aily huntit g tor thy ufe, wliila in the worlo : look, to them and provide for them. "W e <■ id gei the black Hone for leaving him and them '* —'1 he waiters being a vertiied of the bark being im that place, they and o her people came upon them, which obligejd th m that were to come oii, to lecurc the waiters and people altogether, for far of the gar- rifon of Carrie k ergus apprehending them, being near to it, which obl’ged them to come oh immedia however it might oe with them. Alter that he twenty fix of our Scots lufierers came aboard, he i upon the deck and prayed, there being not the wind, yvhere he made a rdaearial ©f times and places.

( 2! ) ffhen amd where the Lord had heard and anfwered jherr in the day of tlv-ir dihrefs, and now they w re

:Jn a jreaf ftrait. Waving his hand to the weft, from I'hence he delired the and laid, “ jbord give us 'll loof full of wind : Fill the fails, Lord, and give us a jjrefh ga'e, and, let us have a Iwift paflage over to the liloody land, come of us what will ”—John Mnirhead, jisLobert Wark, and other' who were prelent; told n e, hat when he began to pray, the fails were all hang ng

ittraight down; Bui ere he ended, they were ail like 1 :j!own bladders : they put out the waiter- and other Weople, and got a vpry fwifc and fafe paflage. The

enty-i'.x Sc >ts fufRrers that were with hirii, having •ov:-*d thiaifclves with arms, and being deugned to

apt urn to hcotland, there being then fuch a node of diing, and indeed the din was no greater than the eed, it bfingthen ia the heat of killing time, in the d ot February, 1685, when at exercits. in the Bark, laid, “ Lord thou knoweft thefe lads are hot i’pirit-

> lay an arreft upon them, that they may not appear ^ :aeir time is not yet; though Monmouth and Arg) le be

ming, they wdl work no deliverance.” At that time re was no report oi their coming, for they came not

>r ten week-- thereafter. In the morning after they nded, he lectured before they parted, fitting upon a 'aelide, where he had fearful threatnings agamlt : cot- nd, laying, the time was coming, that they might avel many miles in Galloway and Nitoiuale, Vyr, and ly del dale, ^nd not fee a reeking houle, nor hear a ck crow. And fm tiier laid, tint his ioul tiembled to ink, what would become of the indulged, nackflidden itt u.’fitt oi ministers ot Scotland ; as the Lord lives, m of them (iiall ever oehonoureit to put aright pin the Lon; s rabejrnaeie nor aliert Cc.rnt's kingiy pre- g- nve, a held and king of is churr^n. louienune

reven to D-.forgotten Mr Donaid pole, la u tn a h, wih ht hours of his m a'tyrdom,. taat he

|aeu, laeugix there were nt>c another uiinuiry in ail

( 22 ) the earth, he would irake no more ufe of them in national reformation; hut »erd ureadful judgments up« then hives, ar-d a long curie upon t;i>eir j oiterty * I I\ r Rutherford laid, in his day, t6^6, That fad at he.iv y were t ne j'udgments and indignation rrom t j| J ord, that wras abiding the unfaithful watchmen Sect land : meaning the unhappy Rcfolutioners. Wfci ended, he prayed earneftly for r:any things ; partic larly, that all the tins they had committed in Irelam might be buried m that place, and might not Ipre; with them through the nful land.

24 When the greater part took their farewel • him, he faid to the reft, d o what houfe or place Ih: we go ? Gr.e Hugh Kennedy laid, We will go toftn a houfe He laid Hewie, we will not get in our no there; for the devil and his oadns are there. Nc withftanding Hugh wnnt, and found the houfe full the enemies and that night a-woman in the houfe ma« away with herlelf, Hugh came quicklv hack and to him. He laid we v ii) go to luch a houfe, I have : errand there. When they went, the good-wife wa d irg, under great d> ubt- and fear ; where he was bieflrd ir.ftrumeTr of comfort to her ; and laid to Hujj Hewie, this i; the errand I had here.

25. They went ealtward icmewhat contrary to h inclination, they came to the top of an hill, upwards two miles diftant Irrm the place they ddigued, he hah ed and faid, “ 1 will uotgo one foot further rhn way “ there is undoubtedly das. ger b foie us.’ An herd 1* being there, he ’gave him a groat and tieiirod him go to that houfe, and fct.h Inn meat and news Who the lad came to the hinife, the got clwift halted and gtfl him meat to them, lining, “ Lad. run hatd anil it them tl at the enemi. : aie ip'-tadp and we art lot kin for them hoe every mi: utc ” As the lad vtas j.ciii from the honfe, eighteen of the en-emto it ot we near, prying Rand cog. The lad ran, and nx ol th purlued "half a mile7 and fired hard upon in in ; tne »a

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( 23 > iient dofe by his head. All th~t time Mr Peden con- inued in pr-ayer far him atone, and with the reft being helve rr. en ; when praying with them, he^fai i, “ Lord

I tail the poor lad that L gone our errand, feek ng fj-ead to fupport our lives, lole his ? Dire£t the bullets 1 v his head, however near, let them rot touch him; ood Lord, fpread the lap ot thy cloak and cover the kror lad.” And in this he was iteard and anfwered,

i that there was a dai k cloud of mi l parted him and i ’em.

20. About this time there wa an honed: poor wife ;Fought him and rh -mfoni, ore -d and milk; when feek-

g a bleding h fud, ‘ Now m this blbodv land, th;s oor woman has ‘ ndarg r d her life in bringing bread

p iupport ours ; we catnoi ay her for it, out L,ord, is for thv lake the fas brought it: tneri i< no need at ihe fhould ne a ioler at t iiy hand, thou givell plenty

i bread to many hat are not fo worthy of it ; giving pcs not impovenlh the<-. acd withholding does not [nrich thee . g v.:- this poor Wife twenty honnacks for

efe few ” And rbe A f« faid ieveral times after- vrrd‘, (he got many bonnocks ; fo that Ihe was never

lira item-<•. for "read, as before • 27 Ai this tame, upon a ^abbath-night he preach-

Id in a Ihidd or lhecp~i oufe, in a d dart place ; a man pnding at the door as he came in, be gripped hnn, and laiu, “ Where are you :J0ing, Sir, go home, you have either art nor part with us, there will he a black ac- ount heard of vou erelong-” Accordingly very ihort- y thereafter he vveut tc hu-nburgh, and took the blacic eft. J hat night he Wturex- upon the vit of Amos, ‘ And I will let a p u . b-iine m tint midft of my people frael.” He cried oat “ ! how few of the mini- vers of Scotland will anfwer the the plum-1.ne ? Lord, end us a W eiwood, a Cargill, and a Cameron, mid uch as they, and make us eput of the rtU.” And I

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( 24 ) will rife agai^ft fhe ho/7: o- feroboem with the fword’ He faid, “ I will t< il you good news, our Lord wii take a teatlvr oui of A "tic'irift’s wing, which fhil’ bring down the Duke o* York, and banifli him out oi thele kingdoms, aid will remove the bloody iword from above the heads of his people : And there will never a uian of the name of '-■tewart fit upon the throne of Britain after the Duke of York, whofe reign is sow fhort, for their lechf-rv, treachery, tyranny, and (bed- ding the precious blood of the Lorcrs people: But, oh black, black, black, will the day be rthat will- corns upon Ireland, that they (hail travail forty miles, ard not fee a reeking houfe, nor hear a cock crow.’ At this be (tarred up to his feet, and clapt his hands, and with a ruviihing voice cried aloud, t{ Glory, glory, to the Lord, that has accepted a bloody lacrihce of a fraled teflimony iff Scotland’s hand } we have'a blood 5^ c:- u to hold uj», and the lads that got the bullets thro’1

their head' the lad: day at Glentrol,tneir blood has made the claut redder vYhen our Lord looks upon thebioocly clout, he will keep the fword of his avengitiy juftut in. the i heath for a time, but if Scotland Uhall not confxder the merciful dav of thDr vifitation, nor his iongfuifer- ing patience, and forbear mce lead them to repentance, as we fear it will not, but harden them in their fin, and thf greater part turn gofpei-proof and judgment proof, ard wax worie and worie, then will-the Lord accom- p ilh all that he l as threatened, weil-dderved, fore- leen and foretold day of vengeance, when be begins he will alio make an end, efpecially againff the houfe of Lli. for the iniquity which they cannot but k ow ” YVhen ended, he, and thefe that were with him, lay down in the fheep houfe, and got fome fleep : He role early, and went up to the burn fide, and ftayed long : when he came uu.o them, he did fing the xxxh I’fahn,

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(■. 2J ) ■ from the 7th verfe to the end ; when ending, he re- 1 pea ted the 7th verfe,

ihiwirt tny tiding p!aa ; thou Jhalt from tfiub'e h ep me fret:

Thou, ’ivi’b fovgs ef del'rver-ince, a'ci* Qj'i'.l ernp ft mg.

jiSaying, “ TJie-h ani the following are fweet line?, (which I got at the burn lide this morning ; and we’ll >|gct more to-morrow, and fo we’ll get dail provifion : 1 He was never behind with any that put their truft in

1 him ; and he will not be in our common, nor none who Jneedily depends on him, and ib we will go on in his Iftrength, mak'ng im ntion of his righteoufnefr, and of

. his on’y ” ! he forefaid James Cubifon went ei^ht 1 miles with him ; when he took good night, he laid,

bir, I think I’ll never fee you again ” Tde faid, (i James, you and T.’will never meet again in time’*

fAnd two feveral t’mes he went tolrelmd before, when '[they parted, he told them that ^tey would meet again.

!rJhe laid James, John Muirlieard,'an ! others of our^ U{ fufFerers, who were prefent, -gave me thefe accounts.

28. Shortly after thev landed from Ipjeknd in Gallo- may, the enemy got jiotice, theyijemgthetunearrifons, [(foot and horfe- and it being-killing tint', me alarm came to them in a-morning, that .foot and horfe v/erc

: coming upon them, the forefaid John Muinhead being ^flrcck with a violent pain in his forehead, they darted Ittp to run for it: He faul, “ r>tay, ftay, lads! letnus pray

for old John ere we go.’ He ' ood up and fai Lord, wx hear tell, that thy enemies and ours are coming upon us, and thou haft laid thy hand oLaflltcliou 01 tld John •,

; have pky upon him, for tbrtrcnfemies wdl have none ; his blood wid runvfhere he lies ! ipare him at this time, we know not if "e be ready to die ” : nd, as John told

ime, with tears in his eyes, tne pam in his.head, and the indifpolition of his body quite left him, andheftarted

tup and ran with the reft. The enemies' feeing them, ipyrlyed tlism hard, fometimes the horfe, ana ioajetimfs

( 26 ) tlie foot being near them ; mofly boggith ground did eaft about the horfe. After they had run tome con- fiderable way, they'got feme little height between the enemy and th« m ; he flood hill and _ aid, “Let us pray here ; for, if the Lord hear not our prayers, and have us, we are dead men, and our blood will run like water: Jf we die, let the enemy kill us, let our blood fill up their cup, that the day of vergance that is coming on them may be haffened.” rJ her. he began and faid, “Lord, it is thy enemies’ day, hour and porter ; they may net be idle, but baft thou no other work for them, but to fend them after us ? Send them after them, to whom thou wilt give brength to flee, for on ftrength is gone; twine them about the hill, Lord, and calf the lap of thy cloak over auld Sandy,and their poor tilings,and lave us this one time, and we will keep it in remembrance, and tell it to the commendation of thy goodnels, pity and compaflion, what thou didft for us at fuch a timed' In the mean time, there was a dark cloud of mift came be-, twixt them After prayer, he ordered two of them to give notice of tie enemy’s motion, and the reft .to go alone, and cry mightily to the Lord for deliverance. In the mean time that they werethus exercifed, there came pofts to the enemy, for them.to go and puriue after Pdr Renwick, .and a great company, with him. After the enemies tverr. gbne, he called them together, and laid* “ Let us not forget to return thanks to the Lord, for hearing and anfwer:.ng us in the day of our diflr fs.” / Andyharged the whole creation to praife the Lord ; and alfo adjured the clouds to praife him. Then he fat down at the foe of a well, and inquired if they had any crumbs of bread ? Some of them had feme crumbs; and v. hen feeking a bkfling, he faid, <( Lord, theu who bleiTed the few loaves and fifties,and made them fufticient for many, blefs this water and thefe crumbs t© us ; for we thought we ftiould never have needed any more of thefe creature comforts

Ji few days alter this, the aforef. id John Muir-

Vv ( 27 ) : head wfas in a houfe alone, at a diftance from the reft, i and in the morning was a dark mift, and he knew not J whither to go, or where to-find them ; only he heard ihim fpeak of ihe nam° ot a place where he was to bap- (tize 10me children ; he gave a fixpence to a lad to con- j dr ft him to that place, which was fix miles diftant :

1 When he came, he was praying. After baptilm, he : came to (ohn, and faid, ‘ Poor ftr lying Iheep, how came | you to ftray froni the reft ? I had a troubled morning for yen ! 'lo not thus again, otherwife it" will fare the worfe with you ’

I 30. About this time, he and John Clark, who ordi* inarily was caded Little Jihriy vrtic in a cave in Gal- iloway, and had wanted meat and drink^long : He Hit:, \(S John, better bethruft through with the Iword, than ipi^ie away with hunger, the eartl> and the futnefs there- '©f, belongs to my Maft-er, and I have a right to as much 1 of it as will keep me from fainting pnder his lervice ;go to ihch a houfe, and te’l them plainly that I have ;wanted meat fo long, and they will willingly give it.” jSaid John, “ Sir, I am not willing to leave you in this place yourfelf, for l»me have been frighted by the devil

tin this save.” “ No, no, John, faid he, you heed not ufear that, I will take my venture cf him for a time.’* : John went, and the people willingly gave him fome nmeat. When he came oack, he faid, u John, it is very nhard living in this world, incarnate devils above the iiearth, and devils beneath the earth ! the devil has been i here fmee you went away ; I have fent him off in hafte,- I we will be no more troubled with him this night.”

31. A little after this he being yet in Galloway* John Muirhead and fome others being with him, John faid to him •‘Whis is a very melancholy, weaiy timej’* it being killing time He replied, There are more

i larie weary days tp come, \yuen your pulpits will be full of Prefbyterian minifters, and it will turn that dark upon you, that many fliall not know what to do, wne- ther to hear or forbear ; and they Hull then be reckoned

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' 2S ) happv that wan well through at Pent!and, Pothwel.l and Airdmofs, and wan fairly oiF rhe ftage, and go# martyrdom for Chrift : for the mirmters will cut oil! many of the rnoft fenous and zealou • godly at he web’d end; but I will be hid in a grave.” lie/ enquired what would become of the teftimony of the Church o Scotland? Thtn he plucked the bonnet oft his head and threw it from him, faying, {< See ye how mv bonnet lies ? The fworn to, and tea led teftim My of the Church of Scotland will fall from among the hands of all parties; and will lie as dole upon the ground as ye fee my bon net lie.” How lamentably is thi? accompliihed to th oblervation of all who fee with half an eye !

•?a. At this time it was fddom-tnat Mr Peden coul be prevailed with to preach, frequently anfwerhig an< advifing people to pray meikle, faying, “ Ii was prayiyg- foik that would win through the ftorm : they would get preaching both meikle and good, but not meikle good of it until judgments be poured cut, to make che land tlefolate.” And at other times, f We needed not > o look foi a great or good day of the gofpel, unfit the fwordl of the Frenches weie amongft us, to make a dreadiul flaughter ; and after that, braw good days.” He and Mr. Donald Cargill faw as it had been with one eye, and fyake with one. breath; and, frequently, when they pretled him to prerch, he bad the lame expreilions in ins anlwers

33 there were three lads murdered at Wigtown,i ana at the fame time he was praying at Cia gmyne,|

a olo idy were 'i

the lads of Kirkelty : And tiioie who lived near, knew not of it, till it wac part. 1 hail tl'.s account from

many miles i facrrtice put

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> out. ‘c Here i Wigtown ” rhete

it wac part. 1 hail tb is account "Wiliam M‘Hougal, at old man in Fcrrytoun, near Wigtown, worthy of credit, vho was prelect.,

34. After this, in Auchengrooch-muirs, in Nithfdalf^ Captain John Matt hi ion and Others being w*ti him, tltey were alarmed that tne enemies were coming lad

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< 29 f ' upon them : They deflgned to put him in tome hole,

i ana cover him with heather, he not being able to run ,hard, by reaton of his age ; he defired them to forbear a little until he prayed where he faid, “ Lord, we are

7 ever needing at th-* hand ; and if we had not thy com- mmd to call on thee in the day of trouble, and thy pro- mife of anl'weringus in the day of our difir ;fs. we wot not what would become of us : If thou haft any more work for us in the world, allow us the lap of thy cloak this day again ; And if this be the day of our going off the ftage, let m: won honeftiyo IF,andcomfortably through, and,pur fouls will ling forth thy praises thro’ eternity, for what thou Juft cone to U' and for us,” When end- ed, he ran alone a little, and came quickly back, faying, “ Lacs, the bitternefs of this blall is over; we will be

too more troubled with them to day.” Foot anc horfe ijcame the length of Andrew Clark’s in Achengrooch,, •where they were covered with a dark mift : When they daw it, they roared like fleihly devils, and cried out, |‘ here i the confounded mift again ! we cannot get Jthefe damned whigs purfued for it.’ I had this ac- count from die laid Captain John Matthifon.

35. About thi time he was in a houfe in the fhirC pf Ayr ( James NTifbet; yet living in the Caftle o! Edin- ipurgh, can bear witnefy, to the truth of this and one laight he was ftanding before the fire, wnere he uttered .|ome imprecations upon the curfed mteiliyencers, who |jiad told the enemy that he was come out of Ireland. Jwhen James took him to the place where lie was to reft tk little, James faid, “ The fervants took notice of your janprecations upon the intelligencers ” He faid <c V'g, ikill knoav to morrow, about nine o’clock, whaa ground SI have for it; I wifh thy head may be preferved, for it bill be in danger for me ; I will take my own time, and ie gone from this hoofe ” Some time that night, he .font to adefert place,and darned himfelfin a mofs hag. The next morning, James was going at the harrows, nd about eight of the clock there w^s a yoop tgi«

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if 30 ) iSnCfrues fur rounding the houfe •, when James fiW them, he ran for it, and they purfued him hard, till he wan to a mol's, where they could purfue him no far :her with horfes : Then they fired upon him. and he having knots upon his hair, on each fide of his head, one ot. their bullets took away one of the kn . ts. He ran where Mr. Peden was, who faid, “ Oh! Jamie, Jamie, 1 am glad j your head is faie, for I knew it would be in danger.” j 5Je took his knife and cut away the other knot. „ 36. About this time, he and James Wilfon in Oou- ■

glas, a Angularly known man to many, was at Aird"- K mofs i and being together fome time, without fpeakmg, as Mr. Peden’s ordinary was, when there was anv extra- ordinary thing in his head, they came to Mr. Cameron’s | grave, where he and other eight were buried. After |l; fitting fomc time on the grave, he gave James a clap on Ji the fhoulder with his heavy hand, and faid, “ l am go-l ing to tell you a ftrange tale ! ’ James faid, “ 1 am wil-l) ling to bear it ” He laid, ft This is a firange day. both J|! of finning and fuffering ! /as indeed it wa , it being kil- j iir.g ti ne, wherein many fainted; and could not endure: 1

the fcorchi’ g heat of the perfecution ! but to fome the 1 Lord, in his love gave gourds of ftrength, fuppcrt and I comfort, that keep d them from fainting:) But, faid he, t tho’ it be a dreadfm day, it will not lal't long; this,per« fccu ion will ftopt within thefc few years, but i will t not fee it; and ve are a:l longing and praying fur that* dry, bu‘ when it comes, ye wdl not crack : j much of it] as ye trow And ye are a vain man, James, and nianyli otners, with your bit^ of paper and drops of blood !|(- but when that day comes, there wi 1 be a bike of in-i Bulged,luke warmirinibersfi omHoHand, England, anc . Irela' .d, together with a bike of them at Im me and lo os yi'ung things that kr vw nothing; and they will all hyve together in a General Aflembly; and the red hands wi t blood,-..nc the black hani s of defeibon, will b“ taken the hanu and the hand given then by our mmrfters; .m c ye ■wail not ke.n w.Lo has-been tue perletutoiYCom^hex:

• - 3T ^ pr fufFcrer j and your bits of p'.per and drops of b*ooA 5\TiIl »^ fimt(o the do-' r,and never a wor 1 more of r.iemj

i; and ye and the-like or ycfu, wiil get their, backfide.” - He gave him another fore clap upon the f boulder, fay nr,

(“ Keep mind of this, James Wilton ! for, a the Loyd alive , it will furely come to pats ” Janies Wil ’on told jme this tliortly tnereafter, and repeated it again the ktil (General -Affembly, when he and I, and many o hers, ifaw the accomphlliment-of this, in every particular, ,to our grejt grief

37 In the beginning of May, 1605, he came to the houfe of John Brown and Viarion W$\ry whom h** mar - jriol before he went to Ireland, where he flayed all might ; and in the morning, when he took fare vei, he icame out at the door, laying to himfelf, ■* Poor woman,

]a fearful morning !” twice over : “ A dark miftym 'rn- ing.” The next morrdng, between five and ;ix, tne faid John Brown, having gore about the wor hij/bf Golin

i bis family, was goirg witha fpade in uis hand, to make .3 ready fome peat-ground ; the mi ft being very t! k, ne p: knew not until cruel and bloody Cla’verhoafe compared Shim with three troops of horle, and brought him to his

ho'i e and there examined him ; vdio, hough jit was a in.an of a ftamme ing fpeech, yet ah wered aim diftinift- |lv and lolrdly ; whtch made Claverhouie to afk tnofe j) whom he had taken to be hi" guides tin ougli the mviir, | if ever they heard him preach ? They antwered, “ No, *1 no, he was never a preacher.” He laid, “ If he has »1 never preached meikie, lie has prayed in his time.” ft He laid to John, “ Go to your prayers, for you lliall |j immediately die” When he was praying, Claverh">ule U interrupted him three times : One time that he ftopt l| him, ne was pleading that the Lord would fpare a rem- ij nant,and not make a fpil end in the day of his anger ; I Glavei home laid. “ I gave you ti ne to pray, and ye are

begun-to preach ;” He turned about upon his knees, and fail. ‘ Sir, you know neither the nature of praying Rcr preaching, that calls this preaching ft” then conti-

( 32 ^ ^ nued "WitKout confu’xot) ” VHen endri, Claverhoufe faid, Fake good night of your wife rod child -•’ ,f

Hh wife 'fanj K, ng hy. her child i#iier •;n,

arovs. that fhe had brought fort n to him. aid another chil d of his: fir ft wife’s, he cattle to heigand faid, ,£ Near* vlarion. the day is come that I told you wou d come, when I. fpake firft to you of marrying me.” .-■he faid, “ Indeed,, Tohu, I can w*llirgly part with you.” Then he faid, “ • hat is all I define, I have no more to do hut die.” He killed his wife and h .'rns, and wtilled purchamd and pro dfecl bleffings to he muhioiied u ion them, and | his hi ifi'ig. s. lav;rhonie ordered x fo! hers to fhoot, and tne noif part oft ic bulie s came upon h.s head, which fca tered id brains upon the ground. Claver- houfe faid to ins wife, * What tnmkcfi: thou of hy hulband now. vomart r'’ hhe f: id. “ I taought ever much of him, a d now as much as ever ” He faid, “ It were juftice to lay tne. beiide him.” She laid, “ If ye were permitted, I doubt not but your cruelcy would go that length But how will ye anfwcr for tnis morning’s work?” He faid, lo man lean be. a dwerable, and for Got, 1 will take him in my own hand 1” Claverhoufe mounted his h< rfe an ! marched, and lett her with the dead corpfe of her huiband lying there. -She let the bairn on tne ground, and gathered his brains, ard tied up his head, and ilraighted his body, and covered him wfth her plaid, and fat down and vept over him. It being a very dtfart place, where never visual gretv, and far from neighbours, it was lome time before any friends came to her : The firft that came, was a very fit hand, thm old Angular woman in the Cummerhead, natmd Elizabeth Menzies, three miles diftant. who had-been tried nth the violent death of her hulband at Pcntland, afterwards of two worthy fons, Thomas Weir who was killed at Drumclog, a-nd David Steel, who was fuddenly fliot afterwards whentaken. The la d Marion Weir,fittingupon her hufband’sgrave,, told me, that before that, fhe could fee no blood but fhe

was in danger to faint, and yet flie was helped to be a unfits to all this,wi fcout either fain ting or coiilulion,

iexcept W'hen the fhots were let oft, her eye^ dazzled. IH s ccr jfe .vere buried at the end,ot his houie, wliere phe wjs {lain, with this infcriptio i on ins grave ftone*

In earth s eo'd be A, the iut'y part here nesi

Oj one ivho did the earth as dujl difpije ! tierey in this place, prom earth hi io:k departure ; Now be has got the gariana of a Irlirtyc.

1 This murder was cointnitted between lix and feven in the morning : vir Peuen was about ten miles diftant, having been in the fields ail n’ght, he came to tne houfe about eight, anddefired to call in the family, that he might pray amongft them. When praying, he laid.

Lord, when wi t thou avenge Brown's biood ? Oh ! let Brown’s blood be precious in thy fight! and haften

lithe day when thou wilt avenge it, with Cameron’s .'Cargil’s, and many other’s of our Martyrs’ names t Av:d oh ! for that day, when the Lord will avenge all their blood.” When ended, John Muirhead required

bvhat he meant by Brown’s blood ? He laid twice over, “ What do I mean ! Claverhoufe has been at the Prel-

Ihiil this morning, and nas cruelly murderea John Brown, his cor he is lying at th enu of his home, and hi poor iwtfe fitting weeping by his corp'l-,and not aroul to Ipeak Comfortably to her. This morning, after the fun riling, K favv a itrange apparition in the firmament, the appear- ance of a v. ry bright dear ihiningiiar, tan from ueavtn ito the earth, and indeed there is a cua. ihn.ing light

alien this day, the greateit C.irktjan that ever i con- iveried wich ”

gb After this, two days before Argyle was broken mo .aken, tie was ir.ar Wigtown in Galloway j a con-

fiderabie number ot men were gavLered together in ,nr ■ -,Jjo go for hisaliiitance; they preiicu him to piearii, •put he pofitivety refuleu, laying, ho would only pray Bvith tiiem y e. here he'continued ioig, ana fpent iome liart of that time m praying tor Ireland, pleading tnat

( 34 ) the Lord will fpare a remnant an . not make a ful end in the day of his anger •, an 1 would put it in th hearts of his o wn to flee over to this bloody lanG, v/lier they v.’ould find fafety for a time. After prayer th got foire meat, and he gave every one of his old parifli onerr, who were there, a piece out of his own hand calling them his bairns Then he advised all to go nc further. 4t Bu*-, laid he, for you that are my bairns I difeharge you to go your foot-length for before yoi -can travel that length, be will be broke : and thong! it were not foT God will honour neither him nor Mon- mouth to be inftruments of a good turn to his church they have dipt their hands fo far in the perfecution. And that fame day when Arg) le was taken. Mr. Georg- Barclay was preaching, and perfiiad ng men in fha country to goto Argyle’s affiiiance : After fermon, h* {aid to Mr. George, “ Now Argyle is in the enemy’; ham., and gone !” though he was many miles diflant I had this account from lome of thefe his bairns, whe were prelent ; and the lafl: from Mr. Barclay’s fell.

39. After thi- he was to preach at night at Penga roch in Garrick; the miflrefs of the houfe was too open minded o a Woman, who went-and told the enemy, ant came back to the houfe, tnat fhe migat not be fulpedled Mr.. Peden being in the fields, came in hafie to the door and calkd the rnifbefi, and laid, *• Ye have played ; bonny fport to yourielf, by Deing fo loofe-torgued ; tlu enemy is informed that 1 was to drop a word this nigh- in this houfe. and tlieperfon who has done it. is intfcu houfe jufl now, and you will recent it ; for to-morros1

morning the enemy will be her . Farew'el, I will fla’ no longer in this p ace ” fo-morrow-morning botl| foot and boric were about tbe houfe.

o I * toe fame vear, withi i the bounds of Carri John Clark, in duirhroefe being with him, laid, “ .Sirj ."iiat ttiMh ye of th’s preit r.t time ? Is it not a darl n. -mcW y day ? And can there be a more difcouraginj time than c.us lie laid, u Y es John/ tins, is uideei

( 35 ) i dru'k, difcouriging time ; but there will be a darker ime thlb ibis ; Th '.fe filly, gracelcis, wretched crea- ures the Curates, -hall go down and after them fhall triie a pjrty called .Jrefbyterians, having no more than i|he name •, and thefc ’.hall as really crucify Chrift, ,as >|ver he was crucified, without the gates of Jerufalem, In Mount Calvary, bodily. T fay they fhad as really irucifv Chrift in his caul’e and intereid in Scotland ; hid fhall lay him in his grave, and his friends fhall give din his winding-fheei. •, and he fhall ly as one buried,

■or a contiderable time O then, John, there will be larknefs and oark days, fuch as the poor Church of Scotland never faw the like of them, nor fhall fee, if jjnee they were over ! Yea, John, they fhall be fo dark, fiat if a poor thing would go between the Eaft fea-bank Ind the Weft fea bcokjfeekicg a minill.er,towhoiTi they i.rould communicate their caffe or red them the mind of liie Lord, concerning the times, iht^ihhdl not find one.” ■John a flat'cl were the teftimony fhouid be then? He an- ilkcred, ‘ Ir the bands of a few, who fhait be defpifed rand undervalued by ail, but ei peciailybythefe minifters ndvo buried Chrift ! IJut afte* that, hefhall get uo on hem •, and, at the crack, of his winding-fheet, as many if them as are alive, who were at his burial, fhall be fiftreted ?nc mad for fi ar, rot kn< wing what to do.

hen. John, there fhall be brave days, fuch as the hurch of cotland net :r la’a the like ! But 1 {kali not e them, but you may.'’ 41 In tht fan e year 168^, preaching in the night-

roe in a barn at Carrick, upon that text, I’fal. Ixviii. ». nt G. d -njt! f,r.a let hi* t» Jlatuted! Let nm hate him flee, h'fore nm! -i f -he is driven,

drive <hou item ! ho nfihing how the enemies and aters of God and go dm fs were tolled and driven as ncke or chaff by the wind of Goi/s vengeance, while n earth , and that >. nu wculd blow tin fh ail tc hell i the end : hooping down, theie being chaff' among is feet he took a handful of it, and laid, “The Duke

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. < 36 . of ^ ork, snd row ^ing o Britain, a known enemy o God and gccdnefs, it was by the vengeance of God tha he ever got that name : but as ye fee me throw avvaj that chaff ib the wind of that vengeance fhall hiow anc drive him off that throne; and he, nor any of tha name, fhall ever come on it again.’

42 About this time, preaching in Carrick, in 'hi parifh of Girva ■, in the day time, in the fields, Davit Mal m, then a profeffor, came in hade trampling vpoi the people to be near h:m ; he faid, “ There comes th devils rattling-bag, we do not want him litre.” Afte this the faid David became officer in that bounds, air', an informer, running through rattling his bag and fur moning the people to their unhappy courts for thei non conformity, for that, he and his got the name 01 th .-.Vtij' ra'tU-h 1 to this day. LSir.ce the Revblutioj he ccmplained to his minifler, that he and his got thaf- name ; the miniftcr faid, “ v e well deferve it, and hJ was an honed: man that gave it you, you and ycuri mud enjoy it, there b no help for it.”

43. A iittie before his’death, hewas in * uchipcloicll when he-wasbcn, in the ncule of fo^n Richman,thfTl being *\vo beds in the room, one for him, and one fcl Andrew— , who dwelt inland about the New Milnsl when importunate with he Lord to have pity upon the Wel of Sco'land and pare a recnn: nt, ar.o not make a fuj' end in the day of his auger : And vrhen he wasoffhj knees,he walked up and down the chamber, crying ou|< *‘Oh ! theMonz'-rs the French Tvlonzies ! See how the! run ! how long will they run ? Lord, cut their hougllr . and flay their rurnn g.” Thus he continued all nigh fin e tin.<s cii his kr.ees, and feme times walking Ii> tlu mosring he inquired what he meant by rl iVionzies ?^-‘e laid, “ O firs r ye will have a dreadful ds by the Fret th !'• onzies,and a let of wicked nitn in ttie ■ lands, who will t; ke part .with them! Tie Weft {

Scotland will pay dear ferut! They will run thick d

( 37 ) t in tnc writer of A.vr and Clyde, than ever the Highland*

men did ” I lay in that chamber about Lhree years ago, rjand the find John Richman and his wife told we that thefe were his words. At other times to' the fame

•llpurpofc, laying, “ O ! tl e Monzies, the Monzies will be through che breadth and length of the South and IWed of Scotland /Oil think l fee them at our fire- iides, flaying man, wife and children Fne remnant will get a breathing but they will be driven to tine wddernefs again, and their fharpcfl hours will be laft.**

! To the fame piwpole fpoke the two folio ving mini- Ijfters, viz. Mr. Thomas Lundis, a jpdly minilder in che Kortn of R itray His lift r, a Lady in that country, who died in the year 168 ], gave the following account: "That the laid Mr. Lundie, ait^r fome ficknels and Teeming recovery again, which comforted them ; one interning flaying long"? than ordinary in his chamber, the fsrefaid Lacy knocked at his cnamber-door, on. jjbpr ning it, found him more than ordinary weisrhted ; [She atked hi n the reafon, feeing he was now better t \/Hereupon Imiling, he fii , “ vVithi a T w hours t wilt taken from you ! But a:as ! for the day that I iee coming up an Scotland fh? Lor ; has letten me

l ee the reaches marching with their armies through .ihe breadth and lengih, of the la id, marc /L g to their tridle reins in the blood o f all ramc..,, a d that for a

ken burnt and buried covenant ! Bu neither ye r >. will live to fee it.” As atfo, one r. D ingias,

.godly mintflerin Galloway, a little before his teath, |e tnin‘g a flu nbering in his o d, h;s w.ic and other

ri^ rids {landinghyphen he awakened, he farmed more jjhan ordhran y weightec and groaned heavny, fay'ng,

oad days (op Scotland !” His wife afktd him, “ vVnat kill be the inftruments ?” He laid ‘ The i "ords uf oriign enemies: ih^v will be heavy and iharo, out ot tong ; but they wdi not be yet, out 101 o g .o tnem. !ut O the glorious days on the back ©f tnem, to pooy railed Scotland 1”

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r . , < 3B > T he late tvorthy Mr Richard Cameron, fpake to the

{iorf prrpcfe, when nreachirg at the Grafs water ftde, fou'th from Gnimnock, July zoth, oSo, eighteen day before his death, viz “ There are three' cr four >‘hjng

‘that T have to tell vouthis,day which* mu’ not omit becaufe I will be but a breakraft feme hour or another,

' to the enemy ; and m jr wt ik and rime vib b fi»ithed.| li','rfl:v As for King Charles who is nowr upon t e throne;] after h's death thdre fhall not be a crowned kintr of th Jiair e of Stuart in her tl nd Secondly, There fhall ro be an old Covenanters head above die ground in xot-lf land that iwore thefe covenants v ith up lifted hands tre ye get the reformation fet up. Thirdly, A mar iball ride alUmn-er-dsyNjcufney within the (hire of Ayr and fliall not fee a boufe reek, or a coi k crow, ere y fet reformation ; ant#everal other fibres in icotlanc

e as ill. Fcurrhiy, The red that the Lord will make inftruixents of, fhall be the French and the Frencl icing, together witv a party it this land-joining wit! them : But ye that fraud to the teftimony in that day *>e not cifcoui agei at the tewnefs of your number, wher| Chrift comes t< fet up his work in Scotland, he wil not want men anew to work for him ; yea. he wil chap upon the greateft man in all Scotland, and he will be the grtatefi n al gnant in it, and he will lay. Sir, le aio> e th s Babel-building for I have ahothe: piece c c; w ork to put in y ouMiand; and he will gar him worll whether he "1 or not. 1. may be he will convert thj man, and give nfm his foul for a prey. \nd there ar ma iy of you tna are my hearers this day, that fhall liv to fee thefe things accomplifhed ; \iitl a Ur thefe de folations are over, ye fhail fee the nobleman and genl

. tlemen’s houfer- fo ruined ’bat the nettles fhall be gro ing out of tneir bed chambers, or ye iiie; and their mej mofy and poflerity fhall perifh from the earth.’?

^4.b he folk wing are fome notes of sir Ptden's la Sern on in the Colom-woodpat the Water of A\ r,a htt before his death. “ My Mafl^r is the rider, and I

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( 39 ) tlie horfc. —I never love to ride but when I find tUerput’^ I know not w! at I have to do amongft you this nigh>^. I wifh it may be for your good, for it whl be the It is long iince it wa; our delire to God, to have you

I taken off our, hand; and now he is granting us our defire. Thert are four or fi ve things! have to tell youthis-night, 1'irft, A bloody (word, a bloodv fword for thee O Scot- ian!, that mall tear the hearts of many. Secondly, -Many

;jmiies fhall you travel, and ihall fee nothing but defola- > tions and niinous waftes m thee, O Scotland. Thirdly* The femleft places in Scotland ihall be as svafte and defolate s the mountain'. Fourthly, The women with child fhall be ript up and dallied to pieces. Fiftly, Many a conventicle has God had in thes O Scotland!

ibift, ere long, God will have a conventicle that wM Smake Scotland to »remble.—Many a preaching has God wared upon thee, out ere long God s judgment? fhall ijbe as frequent as thefe precious meetings were, wherein- i he fent forth his faithful ier rants, to give faithful wa n- ning of he hazard of thy apoftacy from God, in break- ing, burning and burying his Covenant; perfecuting^, iflighting and contemning the gofpel; Ihedding the pre- vious blood of hi-- faints and fervants —God fent forth a Wdwood, a Kid and-a King, a Cameron and a Car-

jjgil, and othen to preach to thee ; Lat, ere long, God idhall preach to thee by fire and abloouy fword l God jjvml let none of thefe men’s words fall to the ground, pthat he fent forth with a commifiaon to preacIP theff jithings in rus name : He wilt not let one fentence fall to pthe ground, but they will have a fad accompiifhuient, to Ethe fad experience of many.” In his prayer after ier- jmon, he faid, “ Lord, thou haft been both good and kind :to auid Sandy, through a lang trail of time, and given i.him many years in thy fervice, which has been but as f© junany months; but now he is tired ofthy world, andhath.; done all the good in it that he will do; let him win away’ with the honefty he has, for he will gather no more,^'

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|>eir g ab!r to travel be came to his bother’s houfe m the parlfh qfSorn, « here he was born ; h ? eanfed ig a cave, with a laugher bufh covering the mouth of it, near to his b. other's hot fe ; .and the enemies came and fearched the houfe narrowly many tin :s. I t the time that he was in this cave, he laid to lome friends. 1 hat i God lhaU.mnke Scotland a defolation. i '[here Ilia 1 be I aremnant m the Lma,whomGod (IrouH fpire and hide i 3 They fhould lie in holes and caves of the e^rth, ani | be fbpplied with meat and drink : and when they comcn out of their holes, they fhall not have freedom to walk,® for humbling on the dead corpfts. 4 A i one out ofn a mountain,fliall come down, and God fhall bt avenged* on thegreat ones of the earth,and the inhabitants of thel. land, for their wickedtiefs; and then the church ihou'di come forthwith a bonnr bairn-times of young one; a';, her, back. He wiihed that the lord’s people might ly hid i in their caves, as if they were rot in the world, for noth- t ing would do it, until God appeared with his judments, ) and they that wan through the bitter ard fharo, fhott fform, by the fword of the Frenches and a let of tm- 1 happy men, taking part with them, then there would j. be a Ipring tide day of tie plenty; purity and power of j the golpeli giving them that for a hgn. If lae we: e but | once buried, they might oe in doubts ■, but it he were oftener buried than once, they might be ptrluaded that I all he had laid would come to pals: Andearnelf'y de fired i them to ta];e hiscoi pfe out to Airdfmois and bury them | hefideR ichy meaning Mr Cameron that he might get j rell in his grave, for tie had gotten little tlaiough his ! life : but he laid he knew they would not do it He told them, that bury him where they would, he would be lifted again ; but the man that put fiffl his. hand to lift his corpfe, four things fhould Orfal h’m. 1. HefhoulJ g ta great fall from a horfe. 2 He dioold fall in adul- tery. 3 Inio theft ; and for this he fhould leave the

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r ■ < 4v)’ wKich accordingly came to pais. Tkcrevras one Mur- doch, a mafon to his trade, but then in the military 'service, who firft out hands to his corpfe. J A little b-fore hi< death he faid, “Ye ifihall be angry 'kh're 1 (hall be buried at lair, but I dil’cnsrge you aii jo lift my corpfe again.” At lalt, one morning early, he tame to the door, and letc his crve ; his brother’s wife ;ja;d, Where are you going, the enemy will be here : de faid, 1 know that. Vlas, Sir, faid Hie, what will' become of you ? You muft go back to the cave again, de faid “ i have done with that, for it is difcovered:. 3ut iher; is no matter, for w thin for.y eight hours I

livili be btyondthe reach of all the devil’s temptations, j.nd his inftruments, in hell or on the earth ; and they hail trouble me no more.” About three hours after he

ipu-tered the houfe, the enemy came and found him not n the cave: then they fearched the barn narrowly, caft«

ring the unthreihen corn ! and fearched the houle, ftab- roingthe beds,but enterednot into the place where he lay.

Within forty eight hours he died, January 28, 1686^ being pall lixty years j and was buried in the Laird of liAffleci's Hie. The enemies got notice of his death and iDurial, and lent a troop of dragoons, and lif.ed his cprpfe- ano carried him to Crumncck-gallows foot, and buried jiiim there after Deing forty days in ‘he graved befide iothers. His friends thereafter laid a grave-ftone abovet inim, with this inlcription :

ffTr/ /ks 1 Mr ALEXANDER P E D E N, I A faithful Ahn jitr oj the Gfp,l at GLENLUCE^

Who dipartta this Lift, ‘Januaty 28, 1(580* And was ratfd, after Six fy' ttks, cut of bis Gravf,

And hurud here cut of contempt After this, that troop of dragoons came to quarter fa

3trhe panih of Camouincthen : Two of them were quar-- Iterea in the houle ox Janaes Gray, my acquaintance ^ they being frighted m -their fleen, Ifartcd up, and clap- ped their bancs, frying, Feden, Fecen. TJhele taco

I 4’- > . ll oragoorss affirmed, that out of their curiofitr they open | ed his coffin to fee his corpfe, ard yet he had no imei though he aad been forty days dead.

All the foregoing articles I was aflured of, excet the 4cth. which is laid he fpoke to John Clark i J\;uubrock, within the bourn s of Carr tk, in the yet 1685, and has been pa fling fiom band to hind in \»ri I fent a friend twenty nines to him, for the certaint 1 of it ; and although he w'as ny old acquaintance, lil delayed to give it. But I am informed, that feme othcl friends enquired at the faid John, who owned that ^oi jj paflage tvas all one, Fedtn laid tc him.

for lubftance, with what iVii

Ther eare other two pafTages I have often heard, an. doubt nothing of the truth of them, though the tithe asd p!acef be net mentioned, viz One day preaching the field*, n bis prayer he prayed earnef ly tor the pr« fervaticn of the people : and again and again he praye for that man that was to lofe his life. T^e enemies catr upon them the fame day, and fired upon the peop e an ttit'e was none of them either wounded or killed, fin 1 one man,'and he was ffiot de;d.— brother time he w;|» preaching, and giving a very large offer of Chrift, the gofpel terms; an old woman biing iittir.g before^hw he laidhis handsoneach. fide of her heao,and rocked he frem fide to lice, and laid, ‘ ! hou witch-wife, the witch-wife, thou witch wife, I offer Chrift to thee Quit the devil's fervice, thou haft a bad mifttr ; tho- wilt never make thy plack a babce ol him : But ft thu wilt break eff and renounce the devil’s fervice, I [ rc jnife (hee, in my Mailer’s name, that he will give the

’ falvatton.” After this, there was a dftcernable chang n her praflice ; and when Ihe was a dying, H e confei

'fed that Ihe was either engaged in the devil’s fervice, was engaging; ar d exprefled her that kfulnefs that ih -fcau the happiBels to he tr Mr. Fedea at that time.

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PART. II.

Cent Anit’g ‘Thirty n iu adcitional Pcjf’get.

\ i. ? N the year 166 5, when the Lord’s perlecuted and | opprtiredpe.jp!e were gathered togetherfor t^ieir

: own defence, who were broken at Pentiand-hib , he, i with Mr. Welch ana the laird of Jhprover, in'the Parilh 1 of Bakntrea, where' riding together in the kune par oh,

:i and met upon the uray a par' y of the enemy's hone, and i no evitirg of them, the laird fa nted",fearing they woo d

ij all b: taken Mr Peden J'eeing ihis, iaid, “ Keep up i your courage and -;onfidtnce,ior God hath i'aid an arrelt hipon thefe men, that'they ihail not harm us.” When } they met, they were c uiteous, and alked the way : 'Mr. Peden aei.t off the ^ay, and the wed the ford of lithe water of Tit. When tie returned, the Laird la d, J “ W lay dtu ) ou go with chena i Yon might have ieiit the Tad with th an.” He laid “ No, no , it was more fafe a for me; for they might have aikei queftions at tae lad, i and he might have fainted and difeevered us. For my-

. ifelf, I knew they would be like the Egyptian dogs, they \ would not move a tongue agamit me ; for my nour of f fkuir g int a their hands, and the day of ti ial is not come, ithat is abiding me ” 1 acre is a t old Chri t an gentle- liwomar, yet alive in Edinburgh, a naught-r of the laid l Laird’s, who told me of late, that Ihe had fcveral times lihe ard her father give an account of this. She alio told hme.that liner Bothwelm idgehght,ihe heardimn preach ijir. the ields. i the forefaid pai ilh; and a woman dtting ibetore the tent, looking up to him. he laid, “ ife w have jiyouthecontLenc eto iook np; Look down to hcil, wnere [iyou are going; the devn has a tall; ip of you, and will ijr.ot loie it ” that woman lived tmd died ander the 'itnniu Jam of a witch, and preiumptions of the lame. | ?. About the year 1670, he was 111 Armagh, in Ir.e- iland, one John Goodale, with his wife, two fenons, 1 sealous Chriftians, livio g in Armagh, who had gonedron^,

< 44 ) .' , Bcothnd, ^ho was a wl ecl wrig'it to liis empioyirent^ his ze^i v.as iuch againft the* ups'* titicus worih’p, and Ifeepirgfc manv holidays,' that when the people^were going and coming by hs fnop door, he wrought me ft hard ; tor which he was excommunicate : When he told Mr. Pcdt n,he laid, “Tcejoice John,that you are caft out of the d( vil’s count book.” After this, he was preaching privately in John's hou e; in hi perfav.e he faid, •* Our •Lord has been taking great p ins on rou in Ireland, to get you to learn your leffon per quire ; ar.d tew of you have bee i brought to fay your aeffon offche book ! tie has gotten a goocly company iphcotland,that he s> arn- ing to lay their leiTon on't he book , and they are brav fcholars : but, ere long, he will try 1'ome of you with it aifo : lie wi'l fay} Come out, tht'u man in hrma.hj, a thou man in Benburb and lay your lelion ft the boot.’ The Bilhop o' Armagh whereof the gieat Mr Uih was formerly Billiop and hrs uadsriing, was io enraged] againft the laid John, that he rode tweury mdes to Dun- lin, to get an order of caption from the Liyd Lieutenant there, for opprehcndmgthe faid Joha. and alto George Fieeming in Benbvub, which ne eaiity obtained; and came quickly back, and wa- in luch in ftc to deliver his order, that upon horl’e-back he catted for the chief magi- ihate: When deiivtringhiscominiilion ms horiecatt up his head, and gave him inch a ftroke mi the breaft tna; he died on the 4th or 5th day merealter. Georg# Ileeming went out of the way, who was lather to tu« late Mrs Pleeming, that Chriftian, motherly woman who kept a tchcol in the Caple.hill, and died t ere— The atorefaid John was immediately put in nr don His wife and others friends came to vilit him ; his wif faid. ‘ How, my near, learn to fay your leflbn oft'th book,’ He anl .vered, ‘I am much obligeo to you ioryou kmdnels, that minds me of that note.’ the jaylrn , a night,faid, “ John, you are called an noneft manjifyo wnl prom lie tore-turn to-morrow, I will let you horn t© your bed.” John laid, <l 'ihatl vu^- not do. hh

^ 45. ) treper 4aiJ. Will you r in for it ?” Ke faid, c< No, no;

I h ave done no ill thing that needs make me ei her afraid, r aiL^mf d Well, faid the keeper go ho ne to your bed

Ijr d 1 will lent a fervant for you the n orrew smermrg.” Vhen he went homej it was his ordinary in his tamdy-

iforfhip, to fing theie lines in he icpta iJfalm, fo-u b. it days end his wum

! Htt charge another tsk , &c. Vhen ended, lit laid to hi; wife- “ I never found fiich

1 gale upon miy fpirit at in the finging of theie lines.” he laid it w-'s fo with hi r alio “ Well laid he, let us

. ommit our caie and caufe to the 1 ord, and wait on dm; ai d we fliall know the mcauingof this afi.erwards; i'hc unhappy man fell i nn edfately id, and laid, that .! this miichief had come upon him, for what he had

.lone agai ift John Good ale; and ca-ifed write,and iign- j a difcharge, and fent it the faid Joan that he might :ot be troubled for the expence he had been at in the icting of that caption He died uncer great horror of onftience. Notwiihftanding he was detained three isars prifoner, working at hi? employment in the i'ol- noth, in the day-time, and went home to his bed at light. rJ he Hid John and his wife returned to Scot- nd, and died lince the Revolution His wife, when

hing at Leith, gave this relation. 13. ^hen Mr, Pedtn was prifoner in Edinburgh, ukr fenttnee of bahifhment, James Mdiir, merchant Kirkcaldy, was under the lame lenience ; and his

■t*e came to vilit him : Mr. Peden laid to her, ‘‘ It I no wonder you be troubled with your hulband’s go- g to the plantations ; Out if any of us go there at iiis riit, the Lord never ipake by me ” 14 In their voyagi to Lot don, they had the ooppr- aiiity to command the fhip, ant make their efcape, but bu d not advei.ti re upuii n, without hi ac vice. He

ci, “ Let alene, ior the Lord v ill let us all at liber-, dm a way more for his own glory and our fafety.” \y About this liuie, in their voyafct, on the baobath.

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( ^ ) the priforterr preiT'd him to-prsach, the wind blow;rp very hard : in thit fermon he. aid, Up /our hear s lads, and ne not c.i{coui'ag<d, tor this nun t)iotiNlr> h had g^t a prize, w hen lie ^ot the gift of us from th wicked, bioody council; • t, in a tew days, he lhall a.- g'ad }o be emit f us, as ever he wa: to get us ” A little time ago, I had a icroll of many accom t about Mr Peden, from an ok Chriftian EngliHi gentle man, who was much an hi company and gave me man noes of his fermons- aid^lTerts the truth of many thin I have hid about him. that he was witnefs to, and foir other perfons of great mtegrity. lie a (lured me, th only inftrume’Bt the Lor i raifei up for the relief Mr Peden, and thele lix prifoners with him, was m I.ord Shaftelbury, wno was always friendly to Prefby: terians : He went to Charles II. and, upon his knees begged the releafe of thefs prisoners, but could no prevail Then he went to the mailer of the ftiip, an* told him, that if he did net fet thefe prisoners at liberty he fhouid never fail in Erglifb feas. At length he cam down 'O Gravefend, and let them at liberty. Af tr tha the Scots and EnglHh lliewed more than ordinary k;rd nefs to them; which fhouid be kept m remembranc wHvhankfgiving to the Lord for favouring our outcaft!

6. Aha r'-hey'werf let at liberty, he ftayed at Londor and through England, until June 1676 Upon the 2ti of June, he was come to the Souih of Scoilatid, fyem Saturoay, the d$v before the Imrd’s people fell and fie’ before the enemy at Bothwel bridge; in his e;trciff’r a family, he cried-out, “ I will tell you, firs, our del verance wall never come by the fword. Many though when the bilhms were firft fet u^, that they worn hot continue feven years ; but I was never of tin mind : i: is now near three fevers, but they wul nc lee the fourth feven, but 1 fe ir they will com; near it.” "Which f dlyxafne to pars.

7. He went that night to the fields, and came in Sabbatrwmorning, about the iumrifing, weeping ar

( 47 ) . wringing his hands : "ne John Sifnpfcn, a godly man, bnquired what the matter was that made him weep ; :He laid, •< I have been wreftling all night whh God, for our friends th t are in the Weft, but cannot prevail ” I gave an account in the former paiTages, about the mid- dle of that dav, many people were waitinsyfor fermon; |Vht n fome told him, he laid, “ Let the people go to heir prayers, for 1 can preach none; our friends are all led arid fallen before the enemv, and :hey are flagging

-md hsfhing them down, ard their blood f running like vater. ’ A= h ghr ht was called to flipper, having taft- pd nothing that d?y^ feverai frien> s being prefenr - In feek'mg a bleffing, he broke out in a r pturr of weeping jin-J lamentations for that fa ’ ftroke upon the b dies of

i I he Lord's people; but much mor' for the dJad ftroke dae greateft part had got upon their fpiritSj, 'hat fe ^ «->f

. he minilti i s and profelibrs of Scotland ftiould ever re- r rover ; which fadly held fue, . si for nerly mend one! n the lerapes of writings of .hat blaft of aft with r-

;ing wind, tiealfo inftfted in pran er for the t. pun Jed, I who were wallowing to d--ath in their blood ; and for i.he many prisoners :■ When ended, he went oT, md litll others, without tailing of their fupper, thaugh it ewas upon the "ahle t»this ’une be was forty or fifty ’miles diftant from Bothwel fridge I 8 Abou'- this ti ne He was preaching in the '>outh, pn that text, t&ut th y rt ■ i g uv^d f.r th; ijjj.ci rtr

i Jofiph He had many edifying remarks upon the [foregoing verfos, efpecially upon the firlf iin •, H'o ii to

thd .r* ej n Zi . He infilled upon the true mature of grieving ; and lamented that there whs fo little grieving for rhe prelent great afflictions of the tJhurch of 'cotlanl One woman ftanthng amongft the beople pointing to her. faid, '• >ome of you will grieve Itnd greet more for the d- owning of a bit of a calf or ttlrk ban eves ye did fer all the tyranny and def-fflions of Scotland/1 That woman had h calf drowned a few days icfore for which (he made gre t none She challenged ais landlady for telling the minifter that Ihe grat for the

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( 4$ ) calf: She replied, T could not tell him that 'which knmv no', and as Httle did he. At the fame time, he fa fo lie of :he people turning weary : fie faid, “ aren taking notice-, fome of you are thinking upon one thin, and fome upon another.” f he Lady Hundelfo i fittic near him- out knew her not, he turning to h r, and fail “ \ndyeare thinking on greeting Jcck at the fre-fide This was a ton of her’s, called John, that {he had le very weak of a decay at the fire fide upon a couch, hit told feveral afterwards, that the very time there was drow of anxietv overwhelmed her a1*nit. him

y Tn the year i68x he went to Ireland: Peter Air- who lived in the parilhoFGal^ouh, who was taken wit me, and imtirifoied together, rold me, that he fodowe him fome good piece of the way to detain him, un- he got his child baptifed : - eiaid, “I rel'olve to cor back Ihoitlv, and.! hope he Lord will prefei child.” Which accordingly ne did : And aher baptin he faid to Peter “ Iftheman of the pariflh- IMr Janjt Veitch. one of the adhialh indulged; had baptifed you child, you would have got vour horned beads kep and now you wifi lofe them ’ Which came to pafs i a h w days after. rhe enemy ca ne and took away h c ttle everv hoof but he fl d. with his horfes.

io. In the tame year 68^, he manied Jo n K’rkl m and l.metLindfay^othmy very d^-ar acquaintances, wh r tod me. That when they were ftandii.g brfore him. h fighed deeply, ami faid, “ Firft one hufijand killed am then another, and muft have a third ! if it muft be ic let her fay "s ' - i/i of « uord.” Which di come to pafs : Her . ufb nd, f’homas Weir, in Cum berhead wa? dtadly wounded at Drumclog, oy Clavci houfe, the firft day of June, 679. being 4 Sabbat anc died the 5:11 day: And Eniign John Kirk w: kdled in Flanders. Kerfland, Fullerton and he were a bur-ed in one grave: And fince, William Spence, Lai %e in 'oulter, who alfi was my intimate acq-iamtan

arnea her. They are both in their graves.

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iof John Slowan, in the parifhof Conert, in the county !of Antrim; about ten o’dock at night, fitting at the fire- fide, difcourfing with fome people, ftarte.i to his feet, and laid, ‘ Flee, auld Sandie, and hide, yo.urfelf, for Colonel is coming to this houfe to apprehend you * and 1 acvife you all to do the like, for they will be here within an hour.” Which came to pafs And when they had made a very narrow fearch within and wichout the houfe, and went round the thorn-bulh under which h« was lying praying, they went olF without their prey. He came in and laid, “ And has this gentleman ,de- jfigning him by his name) given poor Sandie a id their Door things fuch a fright ? For this night’s work, God [hall give him fuch a blow within a few days, that all the phyficians on earth fhall not be able to cure it.”— Which came to pafs ; for he died in great milery, ver- min flowing from all the parts of his body, with fuch a aoifome flink, that few could enter the room,

12. About the fame time, he was in the fame parifk md county : One Mr. David Cunningham, miniftef i here, in the meeting-houfe, on a Sabbath day, broke out in very great reflettions on Mr. Peden, and thefit pthat heard him; cne Mr. Vcrnor, one of Mr. Cun- 1 lingham’s elders, was very much offended* at the fam© dc told Mr. Peden on Monday what Mr. Cunningham kiad faid; Mr. Peden walking in his garden, took a turn t-bout, and came back and charged him to go and tell [Mr. Cunningham from him, that oefore Sarurday’snight the fhouid beas freeofa meeeting-houicas he was; which ipame to pafs: And he was charged that fame week, not to enter his meeting houle, under the pain of death. This account, one John M'George, in the parifh of Orr in Galloway, gives who was there prefent.

13. About the fame time, he was in the houfe of the coreiaid John Slowan, who was a great friend to out jicsts fuffe; ers, who fled the re from the perfeewtiofl

( 50 ) #3 I have heard John Muirht.ad and others give ac- count : Uh Ton, John Slowanj gave me this and leveral other diftinft accounts. The forelaid Wr Cunningham carried over many of the reviews of the hiftory of the Indulgence, to fpread in Ii eland, in defence of the in- dulgence here: When Mr. Peden heard of them, h Paid to fome friends, “ Be not difcouraged, for thefe hocks will do no hurt in this country ; for I faw the like of them fpilt this night.” And fo ii came to 'pafs, for the mcftof them was returned to Scotland.

14. He was preaching one Sabba'.h-night in the faid John Slowan’s houie, a great number both within and •without hearing him; where he infilled cm the great jieed and ufefulnefs of feek’Pg and get fpiritual riches he brought in an example, that if any man was going to Belfaft or Bellifnony, he would be looking his pockets for what he had to bear his cha rges : One mab Band' Ing without, faid quietly, •* Jmrd help me, for 1 have nothing to bear mined’ Mr. Peden laid immediately, pointing to the door, “ Poor man, do not fear, for I have it out of heaven, as with an audible voice, thy charges fhall be borne, and that in a remarkable man- ner.” That man has been mercifully and remarkably iiippbrted ever fince, and that in the way of his duty.

15 In the fame place, in a Sabbath morning’s farm ly- Worfhip, he fang the cxkh Plalm, verfe 1 ith. He faid,

Sirs, I charge you to ling th s Pfalm in faith ; for we wi’l have a room tbrohe belyve : lome ofte hath given him a deadly blow, tho’poor Monmouth hath no hand in it. A fowler when he {hoots a bird, it may rife and flee, but not far, for there is fome ot the fhot in it.” Within ten days after, the news of Charles id’s death

was confirmed. 16. About the fakl time, he faid to James Slowan,

” We muft go to another hon»e this night, for I am mif- taken if there be not a very narrow iearch made this wight.” They went to William Craig and James went with them to the houie, and returned to his own

:bed- When lie awaked^ the houfe was full of people conftable* and others, m iking (earch for prifoners, who broke prifon and fled, but found none.

17 Mrs. Maxwel, or Mary Elphinflon, Yet alive, whom l mentioned in the former pailages, whofe heart’s thoughts Mr. Peden told, when her child was baptized, that ctiild is now a married woman, and has children of her own, whom I fpoke with about three months ago. She came far /from Kilmarnock to public occafions, about df y miles diidance. Mrs Maxwel told me fince, 'vhen lift in Glafgow, that when the told ir.e that, fh« forget to tell me alfo, that when the child was in her lather's arms, Mr Peden faid, “ Pnat child’s coming iere at thi* time, is a teftimonv againft the unfaithful- aefs of the miniders of Ireland Ireland thinks that Carolina in America will be a refuge for them ; but, as fhe Lord lives, it fhall fife no (belter to them. And thefe

>f them, ddlgning to go there at this time, many of diem lhall lofeth dr lives, and the reft ofthem (hall come aorne in great dittrels ” \nd, at that time, there were wo Ihips fettir g out from Ireland to Carolina j one of hem was caft away, near Carolina, and (even fcore of

rteople in her; the one half of them was loft, Mr. James frown, one of the miniders of Glafgow, (luce the devolution, wis one of the feventy who were preferved* it he other (hip was driven back to Ireland, fhjfttered lin’d difabled, and tiie people greatly diftrdied. I iC One time travelling himlelf aloue in Ireland, the light came on,and a dark mift, which obliged him to go mto a houfe oelonging to a Quaker: Mr. Peden laid,

I I muft beg the favour of the nof of your houfe'all (jight ” Che Quaker faid, “ Phou art a ftranger, thou rt very welcome, and (halt be kindly entertained ; bpt

iicannO. wait upon hee,for I .mi going to the meeting.” clr. Peaen laid, ‘f I will go along with you.” the

it tiker laid, “ Thou may, if t uou pieafe , out toou mutt bt irouhle us” Hi laid, “ I will be civil. ’ vViien

|liey cam a to the meeting, as their ordinary is, tney.laS E a.

• ;; ( 5^ ) . or feme litre filcrt, krrt with their fzees to tie wal: w id others overed. There being a void in ’he loft a bove them, there came down the appearance of a raven endfat upononeman’s head, who fturtedupimmediatel/' and fpoke with fuch vehmence, that the froth flew fro r his mouth : It went fo a fecond, and he cid tne lame and to a third, who did as the former two vlr Pedet fitting near to his landlord, laid. “ Do you no fee that You will not deny it afterwards.’ When they difmitTed going home Mr. Peden fatd to his landlord, “ I alway thought there was devilry amongyou,but never ihoug that he did appear vilibly among you, tillnow that Ihav feen it. O ! for the Lord’s lake quit this way, an. flee to the Lord Jelus,' in whom there is redemption through his blood, even the forgivenels of all your ini equities,” JPhe poor man fell a weeping, and laid, perceive that G< d hath fent yo"?f to my houfe, and pm it in your heart to go along with me, and permitte* the devil to appear vilioly among us this night; 1 neve faw ihe like oefore. Let me have the help of you prayers., for I refolve, thro’ the Lord’s grace, to folio this wray no longer.” After this he became a lingula Chriftian ; and, when he \va‘ dying, blefled the Lon ti at in mercy lent the man of God to his houfe.

19. rl here is an old Chrifuan woman HvTg at th “Water of Leith, that*in the b. ginning of i6?<5 we; to Ire 8IU', to the forefaid parith of Corelt ,be ng hi with child, to an aunt’s houie, wno lived there; Shortli after, Ihe was lafety delivered, and Mr. Peden baptize: her child. After fhe was recovered, fht went oa a Sat| bath morning tottu ton laid John Slowan’s he ule fwhe: Mr. Pccenwas opching fermon: being fnow, Ihe a; others lat down in ihe kitchen, a. the fire-fit e; th Mr' Peden came and calk J for water to wafh his h,.su.. When he law them, he laid, “ Lor wnat do you coin here, without yt had beer, advertifed ? For 1 have nc thing prepared for ; ou.” iht y laid, O t>ir, you mu jbu^ lend us away empty, foi yve are in a starving cenu.

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1ion.,, He !aid, •* I cannot promife you ; but if I c»n ;et any thing, ye flia 1 not want it.” A little while

■hereafter, he called, and laid, “ Let not thefe people- wav, tor I will come to thi n Lortly,” Which he v-id, md preached upon that text, T*■ & da\ bring fir fp‘nt%

h* V ainrc in-n it tn<rr\ all *ight. Where he hr^.e •lut in ftrange raptures,expre.ffing his fear' of the Lo i’s leparture from theh lands. He faid, ‘c England for uperJtiuou and profanity, Ireland for fecuritv and for* nality, great fhall thy broke be ! For m a few years, e may travel forty miles in Ireland, and not get a light o your pipe 1” Wmch came to pafs four years there- it r, in the laft rebellion He hid alfo, M O Scotland l many, long and gieat fhall thy judgments be, of all itinds efpecially the Wt ft and South, for loathing and lonternpt of the goip-1,covenant breaking,burning and .urying.and Ihedcing of innocent,precious,dear blood!

D.! a 1 ye that can pray, tell all the Lord’s people to ry, by mourning and prayer, to teaglehim. O ! fee if

■ ’e can teagle him, teagle him, teagle him, efpecially in Icotland ; for we fear he will depart from it.” When rnded, he laid, “ l ake ye that among you, and make a.

i»ood ufe of it ; for I have gotten it new and frefh out if heaven, having nothing of it^this morning.” The hrefaiu John Muirhead. and the faid old woman, and Others, told me, they were never witneffes to fuch a day, for many tears, both from preachers and v carers* f 2o. After this, the old woman longed to be hame to” ^Scotland, her huiband (whofe name was Pat on being in. Manger, and hearing of fuch a killing in Scotland, being 11685, one of the bloody years, upon fcaffolds and in the 'fields and indeed the din was no greater than the deed) |lv b.rk being to go off with paflengers, {he refilvmgto :go along, went to take her leave.of Mr. Pedcn, and

I round him in a wood with John Muir head, and others of, [>ur .Scots fufterers. She told him her delign, and he mufed a little, and then faid, “ Go not a vay till I fpe.ata with you.” tie took a turn thro’ the wood, and wh$l

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. C 54 ) lit carre bacV, h raid, Jaiet, go back to thy aunt?* for you will not fct Scotland thefe five monchs ; therj will ftrange things go through Scotland ere you go tc it. you will fee a remarkable providence in your being ft opt.” The bark went off, and was caft awav and i“A

paffengers corpfe were caft out at the place where theyjr took fliip, John Mu^rhead gave fhe this account -dfo.

at \ftcr he came to Scotland, in the beginning of March 1685, flying from the enemy on horfeback, and they purluing, he was forced to ride a water, where he was in great danger of being loft : When he got out he cried, “ L'ds, follow not me, for I affure you, yi want my boots and fo will certainly drown. Confiden where your landing will be ! ye are fighting for hell and running faft to it.” Which affrighted them to enter the water

22. At atioihi r time, being hard purfued, he was for- evd to take a dangerous bog and a mo s before him: One of the Diagc ons more fo'wr.rd than thereff,runhimfelf intothe beg, am he and his horfe were miver fe« n more.

23 Lying fitk in a village near Crumnock.he told his Jand ord, who was afraid to keep him inTiis houfP, the folunrs being to travel through that town the next day, 4* Ye neet not f ar to let me ft. y in vour home, for fen c of thffe foldiers fhall keep centry at the door, but /hat! not come in.” Which came top ifs : His landicrd bei g digging ftones at the end o* that sillaf e, told the «fii ers that he was afraid the foldiers would plunder his cot age. They fail’, *» Poor man, you deferv? encour- agement f r your virt le ; be not afraid of ycur houfe, we wid 01 er two loldier- to ftand at your door, that no mar enter to wrong you.” Which they did.

24 He lying fick about the fame time, his landlord.. was afraid .0 keep him in his home. The enemy being in, ft arch of hiding p- opie, he w s obliged to make a feed for-him among the Handing corn , at which time there was a great rifing of the water, hut not one drop fo be obferved within ten foo of his bed

25. About this time he fame to Barfield, in the parifh

( n ) i cf MaucWin, to the houfe of Matthew Ha?, a fnrh.

1 He went to his ham. but thought hi nfelf nof fafe, foot i and horfe of the enemy being reurchin? for wanderers,

aj as they were then railed He dehred the favour ot his i loft, which Matthew refuled: He fai h “ \Vell, well, poor i man, you Will ne t let me have ’he fhe'ter of y ourmof; I bm that houfe {bailee your judg tvent and ruin ” So ne

time after, the gavel ♦‘f that houiefell, and killed both ihim-nd his fon. Their bodies were feverely cru hed.

96. About the fame dme, he came to Aik rew Mor- imand s houl'e, in the p-'riih of AUoway, ihire of .vr, being to preach at nigbi in his barn After he came in he halted a little, leaning on a chair bac c, with his face icovered When helifted up his head be fai l “ they lare in thi' houfe that I have no- one word of falvatioh unto!” He halted a little again,isyng, '* This is itrange, that t^e devil will not go out, tt'ai we may begin ou'r

itiwoik !”—Then there was a woman went out, in looked ;upcn for a witch. John Muir-head formerly mentioned/ 1 told me, that when he came fro o treUnJ to G lloway, he vus at family-vrorlhip, and giving Ibtne notes upon ithe feripture r^ad there was a very ill-looking m*n ica nein, and fit down wi hin the door He halted a d

,bfaid, “ Tiere is fom- unhappy body jult no w come in- to this houfe, I charge him o go ut, and not top ny itnouth ” The man went otf, and he infifttc ; but ne lifaw him neither come in. nor go out.

i.7 In that b oody year inifr, he c me to a houfe in u:he ihire of Ayr, Caot. in John Mn ihiion ana other 12 Ibf cur wanderers being in the houfe he faii, “ Lad -, ye nufi go to the fields and feelc you1* btos, for the icnemy wid be here this night, and dl go to my Cxvs ’ jlThey laid, ‘Some of us will day withyo'i, for ycuwfii Hveary alone ” *'• No. laid he. I vdi not wea y. For ii. fign that the enemy will be here this mght, a g >J,y lianinent Chriftian man, whom l have often heard if,. Jmt never iawj will come and lie with me his n ght.”

Ml which came to pals : for the men fl-.d, a id uc en« ered the cave, and fell ufletp j and a little thereafter.

5* > tile fiiid man coming to th-j family, aTcea for Mr. Fe- clen, and defire ' acce1' to ttae cave, to ly with, him : Wht n in bed, he found Mr Peden flambering, but m. a little he awoke, and, mming the mn, aficed how he did ? I he foldiers c me that night, but mitred their prev. The next morning, when thefe faid men re- tmned, he faid, *f Lads, it was M?ell I came to this houfe vefternjgtt otherwise ye Ivd been among their bloodv hand i this day

28. In the faid year 1085, he came to "WVJwood, to Captain John Campbell’s, he having escaped out of Caoongate-Folbooth, in the month of duguft 1684. j| Being in danger every day, he refolved o go to Ame- 11 rica, ai d took farewel of hi friend^, and went aboard* |j of a {hip Mr. Pe.ien laid to bis mother, “ M’ftreis, | what is become of John ?” ihe laid, “ He is gone to | America.’ tie laid, ‘No, no! he is not gone j I^nd J for 1 im, for re will never lee America.” Accordingly It it was tola ftorm arofe, where he was in great dan- ger, but was preferved, anc is yet alive.

2p. Since the publifiiing of the former pafiages of Mr Peden’s lite aud death, I received two letters from Sir Alexander Gordon of Earlrtoun, in the year 1725, and 1726, iince gone to his grave ; {hewing, that he was not only fully iatisfied, but much refrefhed, with the pafiages, t equefiing me not to delay the publifhing of aU that I propofed; and that he longed to fee them be- fore he went off the ftage : Knowing that my day is far {pent, being long fince' I was his fellow prifoner, and taught him from my own experience, how to manage the great weight ot irons that was upon his le^s •, and | wifliing that all the Lbrd’s people, who have any zeal for the i'worn to and haled tefiimony, and favoury re- I membrance of the names fifChril.t’s {lain witnefiels for | the l ame, and of the Lord’s fignal raanifeftations of his i faithfulneis ard all fufficiency to them, in their life and :• death, would give me all encouragement in fuch a pie e 1 of good and great generation-wrork, which, may be uk- r

ul and edifying when he and [ are both moui lerlng in he doit. For himfelf, he willing ^ould, and fome- iim» a day could but now, being 74 years of ’ge, md 7 years ii imprifonment. and often time*' in irons, md m ny other trouble*, through his life, his memory ,nd judgment were much broke,and therefore he could nasce me little help.. Only he remembered, he was mce fent from the fodeues in Gallo ray to Garrick, o call vlr Ped.n to preach : Waxen he told him for Vhat end he was o^ne, Mr. Peden went for fo;ne time .lone *, andavhen he came back, he faid “ I a n forry Sarlftoun, you are come fo far in vain, for I cannot anfwer your defire: I can get nothing to fay to your oeople: Notiling will convince this generation h it ju ig- ments, and a furpriiing lump of them upon the Well: of Scotland.’ Earlfiroun faid, “ Sir, you was once legally ordained ard au-horifed to preach 'he goipel, and the 'Lora’s people’s call is fufScicnt, I think you are under :ia temptation of enthufiakn.” Mr. Peden faid. he fome- times feared that; Out firce he was driven from hit people at Glenluce, his Mafter, in mercy and goodnefs, gave him more encouragement; and gave one intiarxce,

(That one time he was cadet, and ref lved,and prepared to go, as he thought •, but. when his horfe was drawn, 'he went unto the barn once more, where he was dript barbed all his thoughts,and a ca’kening.dampir g cloud overwhelmed him, whichItopt him: And he afterwards

■few a remarkable providence in it, and need be for it. iAnd; further, he laid, The lull ti ne he law Mr Peden, it was with Mr Cargil, wnere the) continued a long

1 time'eomparing rates together , feting with one eye, ijthinli ing with one mind, and ipeaking wiui one breath, fof all things, pad, prcieut, and what was to befal taw fjehixrch and nation.

jO. In nislail lermcn, which, a I fad be fore, was in the Colm wood, he laid, fhat in a few years after his death, tuere would be a wonderfu. i teration of afiairs in Britain and Ireland, aad the perfecutiou in

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( 58, ) Scotland fhould ceafe ; upon which every body (hou believe the deliverance was come, and ccnfequentl would fall fatally fecyre. “ But I tell you, laid h you will be all very much miftaken ; for both Enghn and Scotland will be icomged by loreigners, and a h of unhappy men in thele lands tafcing part wi’h then before any of you can pretend to be happy, or get ; thorough deliverance, w' ich will be a more feven chaftifem nt thin, any other they have met with, Oj can come under, if that were once %er.

LETTER,

FROM

Mr. ALEXANDER P E D E N,

To the Prifontrs in Dtmmtat- CaJUtt

July 1685.

Dear Friend*, ILong to hear Irom you, how you fpend your time v

and how the grace of Goiigrowj in your hearts., I know ye, and other of the i_.or.ds people, by reaion of the preteat trial have got up a falhionofcomplaining upon Chrifti but I defy you to tpeak an ill word of him, urjels you wrong h m. bpeak as you can and ipare not} only I requeft that your expreflipns of Chnlt t>e iunable to your experience of him If ye tin it Chrift s houle be oare and ill provided, auu harder t; an ye looked t >r» afrure yourfetves Ghent minds only to diet you, and not to nungtr you : Jur Steward Kens when to ipend, and when to fpare. Chrift knows well, whether heaping or ft raking agrees >elt with our narrow velie s, tor boa are aii ■ 10 him : Sparing wiA not enrich nin’, nor wni fpenUitig im, ovetiiii r.-ut rfet'hmks it ill-won £ri“: iS

holden ptf his people, uraoc and. glory cmnes out of

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(hrift’s lucky hand. Our veflels are but fecklefs, and Dntain little: His fulnels is oao^ ftraitned when it rant a vent. It is eafy for Chrift to be hoklen bufy i dividing the fulnefs of bis Father’s houre to his poor ■iends : He debghts not to keep mercy ovcr-ni£ht. jvery day brings new mercies to the people of Go 1: le is the eaiieft merchant ever tbe people of G ad yoked ith : If ye be pleated with the wares, what of his tcces makes btft ftfr you he and you will foon fort on ae price ; he will fell goods cheap, that ye may fpier >r his (hop again ; and he draws all the fale tohimf !f. ccunfel you to go no farther tlaan Cbrid. And'now ihen it is come to your Poor, either to tin or fuffer, :counfel you to lay your account with fufFering ; for n out-gate coming from any other airth, will be pre- I dicial to your foul’s inter ft. And for your encou- ragement, remember he fends none a warfare on their ikvn charges. And oleft is the man that gives Chrift iil his money. It will be heft with you to block with in, when you want hand-money. And the hfs you ave, he has the more heart tp truft you. And fo it is reft with you to keep in with your old acquaintance thrift. New acquaintance with ftrange lords, is the iiady way to make a wound in grace’s fide, which will ot heal in hade ; the fore may dole before the wound, ry up, for grace is a tencer place, and is very eafily '(idempered with the backflidings of our prefent time. And if the wheels of it be once broken witn fin, all the ihoney in the World yill not make it go about, until it [e put in Chrift’s hand I hope I have faid more on inis matter than is needful ; fof I have feen the marks f tendernels deeply drawn on your carriage, fhe fafeft /ay to ftiift the ftiower, is to hold out of God’s gate, . id beep within his doors, until the violence of the- icrm begin to elb, which is not yet full tide. Chrift jeals tenderly with his young plant*, and waters hem ,‘t, left they go back ; be painful and no:; lofe life for jie feeking. Grace, mercy and pea^e be with you.

The EPITAPH Upon the Mar'yrt Monument tu the Grayfriart

Chu+cb-yard in hdu.bur^h

Upon the Hend of the Tomb there is the Efllgi<-s of an open Bible drawn, with thefe.Scripture-cnations, Rev vi 7 so, ii. And •when he had opened the fifth ft'il) l fuw unde' the altar the fuuh tf them that had been fiain for the urd it God, and fir the ItHnnony •which they heil, tsV —Rev. vii. 44.

Aljo the following Lines.

f ""f” ALT, ptlTengers, take heed what you do fee, This Toinlvck)! b flu w for what fomf men did die } Here lies interr’d the duft of 1 hole who flood ’Gai ft perjury, refifung uitto blood i Adhering to the Covenants and Laws, Eftahkfldr g the isme ; which war the caufe Their lives were facrific'd dnto the iu V Of Prelatifts abjur’d. Though here their duft Lies mix’d with murderers, and otiitr crew. Whom juft>ce juftly did, to death purfue •, But as for thete, no caufe irvtlum was found Worthy of deatn, bi t only they ivere found, Coriunt amt ftedfafl. zealous, witneiThig For the prerogatives of Christ their King. Which i ruths were feal’d bj famous Gutnric’s head, And all along to Mr. Renwick s blood. They did cm ur» the wrath of enemie , Reproacl es, torments, deaths and injuries ; But yet ihey retliefe who from Juch trouble came, And now triumph in iilory with the Lamb.

'From May 1 jth, 166 , that the noble Marquis of; ■Argyle luft'ored, to Feb. 27, 2^89, that Mr James Renf! wicktuftired, lOoMobiemcn, Gentlemen,Mimfters and! others, were executed at Edinburgh, noble Martyr* for Jesus Chrisr. The moft part of them lie here.! It is alio laid, that x8;coo fuffered in the late periecUy tioft in Stotiand. *

FINIS.