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( 10 ) only gone to take my leave oimy uncle William Livingſton in Falkirk, being anxious about the caſe of Torphichen, and my own want of imployment, when I had ſent away before me to Lanerk the boy that waited on me and kept my horſe, being minded within half an hour to follow, I got letters from the counteſs of Wigtown from Cumbernauld, (that was six miles diſtant) deſiring that I would come thither to be preſent with her mother the counteſs of Linlithgow who was a-dying, and had been all her days a Papiſt, but ſome while before had deserted that religion. When I came thither, the earl of Wigtown and ſhe propounded, That (seeing their houſe was ſix miles from their pariſh church, and ſeveral of their tenants might come to hear ſermon in their houſe; and that it was but 10 or 12 miles diſtant from Torphichen, and ſo ſome of them alſo might come) I would ſtay with them, and, at leaſt in the winter-time, preach in the hall of Cumbernauld to the family and ſuch as came, until other occaſion of imployment offered: whereunto I condeſcended. Thus, until Auguſt 1630, at which time I went to Ireland; I continued more, than two years and a half moſt part in the houſe of the earl of Wigtown, and ſometimes with my father in Lanerk. Moſt part of theſe ſummers I was travelling from, place to place, according as I got invitations to preach, and eſpecially at communions in Lanerk, Irvine, New-milns, Kinniel Culross, Larber and the Shots, and several other places: I preached ſometimes alſo at Glasgow for Mr. Robert Scot. He died the 28 of January 1629. I was with him ſeveral times on his death-bed. One time in presence of many, ſpeaking of the biſhops apd ceremonies, he ſaid, "Their wicked and corrupt courſes my ſoul abhorrs, and my comfort is that God hath withheld me from them; if God lengthen my days, I ſhall not be ſo ſparing as I have been; to gain caſe I have diſhonoured God:" and a little before his death, having lain, ſome while in a kind of trance, he awaked, and taking off his night-cap, threw it to the bed-foot; and cryed out, "I have now ſeen the Lord, and heard him ſay,———Make way for my faithful ſervant Mr. Robert Sat. And after a ſhort while he died. The