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 There are other two passages I have oft heard, and doubt nothing of the truth of them, tho' the time and places be not mentioned, viz. One day preaching in the fields in his prayer he prayed earnestly for the preservatioupreservation [sic] of the people: and again and again he prayed for that man that was to lose his lite The enemies came upon them the same day, and fired upon the people, and there were none hurt save one man and he was shot dead.--Another time he was preaching, and giving a very large offer of Christ in gospel-terms, an old woman sitting before him, he laid his hands on each side of her head, and rocked her from side to side, and said, "Thou witch-wife, thou witch-wife, thou witch-wife, I offer Christ to thee! Quit the devil's service, thou hast a bad master; thou wilt never make thy plack a babee of him; but if thou wilt break off and renounce the devil's service, promise thee, in my Masters name, that he will give thee salvation." After this, there was a considerable change in her practice and wbenwhen [sic] she was a-dying, she confessed that she was either engaged in the devil's service; or was engaging; and expresed her thankfulness, that she had the happiness to hear Mr Peden at that time.

N the year 1666 when the Lord's persecuted and oppresed people were gathered