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 compel them, for they will be like the dogs in Egypt, not one of them will move their tongue against you." Accordingly Robert and his comrade found it out so, and brought her to the secret place where he was, When Robert and his comrade came and told him, he was glad and very kind and free, but he seemed under a cloud at that time. He said, "Lads, I have lost my prospect, wherewith I was wont to look over to the bloody land, and tell you and others, what our enemies and friend were going: The devil and I puddles and rides time about upon one another. But if I were uppermost again, I shall ride hard and spurgaw well: I have been praying for a swift passage over to the sinful land, come of us what will And now Alexander Gordon is away with my prayer wind but it were good for the remnant in Scotland he never saw it: for as the Lord lives, he shall wound that interest ere he go off the stage."

This sadly came to pass in his life, and was a reproach to it at his death.a little before they came off, he baptised a child to John Maxwell a Glasgow man, who was fled over from the persecution: in his discourse before baptism, he broke out into a rapture, fortelling that black day that was to come upon Ireland, & sad days to Scotland, and after all this was to come good days. Mrs Maxwell or Mary Elphingston the mother of the child, yet alive in Glasgow, told me this, that in the time he was asserting these things, she was thinking and wondering what ground of assurance, he had for them, he cried aloud shaking his hand at her, and said "Woman thou art thinking and wondering within thyself, whether I be speaking those things out of the visions of mine own head, or if I be taught by the spirit of God; I tell thee woman thou shalt live and see that I am not mistaken."