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4 çould get no rest till I came home to declare it." However it is certain, that after she was married, everything went cross to them; and they went from place to place, and were reduced to great poverty. At last he came to that same spot of ground where he stayed upwards of 24 hours and made away with himself.

2. After this he was three years settled minister at New Glenluce in Galloway; and when he was obliged, by the violence and tyranny of that time to leave the parish, he lectured upon Acts XX. 17 to the end, and preached upon the 31st verse in the forenoon, Therefore watch and remember that for the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one, night and day with tears" Asserting that he had declared the whole council of God, and had kept nothing back ; and persisted that he was free of the blood of all souls. And in the afternoon he preached on the 32 verse, And now brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified" Which was a weeping day in that kirk; the greatest part could not contain themselves, but they sorrowed most of all when he told them that they should never see his face in that pulpit again. He continued