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 troubled morning for you! Do not this again, otherwise it will fare worse with you."

31 A little after this, he being yet in Galloway, John Muirhead and some others being with him, John said to him. 'This is a very melancholy, weary, time" it being killing time. He replied, 'There are more dark weary days to come yet, when your pulpits will be full of Presbyterian ministers, and it will turn that dark upon you that many shall not know what to do, whether to hear or forbear; and they shall then be reckoned happy that wan weel thro' at Pentland, Bothwel and Airdsmoss, and wan fairly off the stage and got Martyrdom for Christ: for the ministers will cut off many of the most zealous godly at the web's end; but I will be hid in a grave. They enquired what would become of the testimony of the church of Scotland; He plucked the bonnet off his head and threw it from him saying, "See ye how my bonnet lies; The sworn to and sealed testimony of the Church of Scotland will fall from among the hands of all parties and will lie as closs upon the ground as you see my bonnet lie. How lamentably is this accomplished, to the observation of all who sesee [sic] with half an eye.

32. It this time it was seldom Mr Peden could be prevailed on to preach, frequently answering and advising fouk to pray meikle, saying "It was praying fouk that would win through the storm: they would get preaching both muckle and good, but not muckle good of it, until judgements be poured out, to make the land desolate." And at other times. "We needed not to look for a great or good day of the gospel, until the sword of the Frenches were amongst us to make a dreadful slaughter; and after that, braw good days." He and Mr Donald Cargil, saw as it had been with one eye,