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 stretched out, and this was all the atisfaction his friends and the world had upon his lamentable death, o bitter to his friends. another he had who was heir to his father's grace and bleings, and this Mr. Joias Welch, miniter at Temple Patrick in the north of Ireland, commonly called the cock of the concience by the people of that country, becaue of his extraordinary wakening and rouzing gift: he was one of the blet cociety of miniters, which wrought that unparralleled work in the north of Ireland, about the year 1636, but was himelf a man mot adly exercied with doubts about his own alvation all his time, and would ordinarly ay, That miniter was much to be pitied, who was called to comfort weak aints and had no comfort himelf. He died in his youth, and left for his ucceor, Mr. John Welch miniter at Iron Gray in Galloway, the place of his grandfather's nativity. What buines this made in Scotland, in the time of the late Epicopal perecution, for the pace of twenty years, is known to all Scotland. He maintained his dangerous pot of preaching the gopel upon the mountains of Scotland, not withtanding of the threatnings of the tate, the hatred of the bihops, the price et upon his head, and all the fierce indutry of his cruel enemies. It is well known that bloody claverhoue upon ecret information from his pies, that Mr. John Welch was to be found at ome lurking place at forty miles ditance. would make all that long journey in one winter's night, that he might catch him, but when he came he always mied his prey. I never heard of a man that endured more toil, adventured upon more hazards, ecaped o much hazard, not in the world. He ued to tell his friends who counelled him to be more cautious, and not to hazard himelf o much. That he firmly believed dangerous undertakings would be his ecurity, and when ever he hould give over that coure and retire himelf, his minitry hould come to an end; which accordingly came to pas, for when after Bothwel bridge, he retired to London, the Lord called him by death, and there he was honourably buried, not far from the king's palace.

But to return to our old Mr. Welch; as the duty