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 THE

LIFE AND PROPHECIES

OF

ALEXANDER PEDEN.

most excellent minister of the gospel, and faithful defender of the Presbyterian Religion, Mr, was born in the parish of Sorn, near Ayr. After his course at the College, he was sometime schoolmaster, precentor, and session-clerk to Mr John Guthrie, minister of the gospel at Tarbolton. When he was about to enter on the ministry, a young woman fell with child, in adultery, to a servant in the house where she stayed; when she found herself to be so, she told the father thereof, who said, I'll run for it and go to Ireland, father it upon Mr Peden, he has more to help you to bring it up (he having a small heritage) than I have. The same day that he was to get his licence, she came in before the Presbytery and said, I hear that you are to licence Mr Peden, to be a minister; but do it not, for I am with child to him. He being without at the time,