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 drop a word this night in this house, and the person who had done it, is in the house just now, and you will repent it, for to-morrow the enemy will be here. Farewell. I will stay no longer in this place." To-morrow morning both foot and horse were about the house.

41. In the same year 1585. preaching in the night time in a barn at Carrick, upon that text Psal. lxviii. 1. ''Let God arise! and let his enemies be scattered! Let them that hate him flee before him! As some is driven, so drive thou them!'' So insisting how the enemies and haters of God & goodness were tossed and driven as smoke of chaff, by the wind of God's vengeance, while on earth, and that the wind would blow them all to hell in the end: stooping down, their being chaff among his fect, he took a handful of it and said, "The Duke of York and now King of Britain, a known enemy of God and goodness, it was by the vengeance of God that ever he got that name; but as ye see me throw away that chaff, so the wind of that vengeance shall blow and drive him off that throne; aud he, nor any of that name shall ever come on it again."

42. About this time, preaching in Carrick, in the Parish of Girvan, in the day time in the fields, David Mason, then a professor, came in haste, trampling upon the wind to be near him, Mr. Peden said, 'There comes the Devil's rattling-bag, we do not want him here." After this, the said David became officer in that bounds and an informer, running through rattling his bag, and summoning the people to their unhappy courts, for their non-conformity; for that he and his got the name of to this day. Since the Revolution he complained to his minister,, that he and his got that name, the mister said, "Ye will deserve it, and he was an honest man that gave it