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 prayer for the wounded, who were wallowing to death in their blood: and for the many prisoners: When ended, he went off and all others without testing of their supper though it was upon the table At this time he was forty or fifty miles distant from Bothwel-bridge.

8 About this time he was preaching in the south, on that text. But they are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph. He had many edifying remarks upon the foregoing verses especially upon the first line, Woe unto them that are at ease in Zion He insisted upon the true nature of griving; and lamented that there was so little grieving for the present great afflictions of the Church of Scotland. One woman standing amongst the people, pointing to her, he said, "Some of you will grieve and greet more for the drowning of a bit of a calf or stirk, than ever ye did for all the tyranny and defections of Scotland." That woman had a calf drowned a few days before, for which she made a great noise. She challenged his landlady for telling the minister that she grate for her calf: the replied, I could not tell him that which I knew not, and as little did he. At the same time, he saw some of his people turning weary; he said, "Ye are not taking notice; some of you are thinking on one thing and some on another." The Lady Hundelsop sitting near him but knew her not, he turned to her and said "And you are thinking on greeting Jock at the fire-side" This was a son of hers called John, that she had left very week of a decay at the fire-side upon a cruch. She told several afterwards that a drow of anxiety overwhelmed her about him, at that very time he spoke to her.

9 In the year 1682 he went to Ireland: Peter Aird, who lived in the parish of Galstoun, who was taken with me, and imprisoned together,