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 the thorn bush under which he was lying praying, they went off without their prey. He came in and said, "And has this gentleman (design-him by his name) given auld Sandy and their poor things such a fright? For this night's work Good shall give him such a blow, with a few days that all the physicians on earth shall not be able to cure it." Which came to pass; for he died in great misery, vermin flowing from a l parts of his body, with such a noisome stink, that few could enter the room.

12 About the same time, he was in the same parish and county: one Mr. David Cunningham, minister there, in the meeting house, on a Sabbath day, broke out in very great reflections on Mr Peden, and them who hard him; one Mr. Vernor one of Mr Cunningham's elders, was very much offended thereat, and told Mr Peden on Monday, what Mr Cunningham had said; Mr Peden walking in his garden, took a turn about and came back and charged him to go and tell Mr Cunningham from him, that before Saturday's night he should be as free of a meetinghouse as he was; which came to pass. He was charged that same week, not enter his meeting house on pain of death. This account one John M'George, in the parish of Orr in Galloway gives, who was there present

13 About this time, he was in the house of the foresaid JobnJohn [sic] Slowan, who was a great friend to our Scots sufferers, who fled from the persecution here, as I have hard John Muirhead & others give account; His son John Slowan, gave me this, and several other accounts. The foresaid Mr Cunningham carried over many of the reviews of the history of the indulgence, to spread in Ireland, in defence of the indulgence here: When Mr Peden heard of them, he said to some friends, "Be not discouraged