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 27. At this time, upon a Sabbath-night, he preached in a shield or sheep-house in a desart place: a man standing at the door as he came in he gripped him, and said, "Where are you going Sir, go home, you have neither art nor part with us. there will be a black account heard of you ere long" Accordingly very shortly thereafter he went to Edinburgh and took the black test. That night he lectur'd on the vii. of Amos."I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel" He cried out, "Oh! how few of the ministers of Scotland will now answer the plumb-line; Lord send us a Welwood, a Cargill, and a Cameron, and such as they, and make us quit of the rest." And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. He said, "I will tell you good news. our Lord will take a feather out of Antichrist's wing, which shall bring down the Duke of York and banish him out of these kingdoms, and will remove the bloody sword from above the heads of his people: And there will never a man of the name of Stewart sit upon the throne of Briton after the Duke of York, whose reign is now short for their treachery, lechery tyranny, & shedding the precious blood of the Lord's people: But, oh! black, black, black will be the day that will come upon Ireland, that they shall travel forty miles, and not see a reeking house, nor gear a cock crow."At this he started up to his feet, and clapt his hands, and with a ravishing voice cried aloud, "Glory, glory to the Lord, that he has accepted a bloody sacrifice of a sealed testimony off Scotland's hand: we have a bloody clout to hold up, and the lads that got the bullets thro' their heads the last day at Glentrol, their blood has made the clout redder. When our Lord looks upon the bloody clout, he will keep the sword