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9 or she is looking for. Accordingly, the same day-month that he parted with her at Leith, he came home to her at the water of Leith.

8. In the year 1682, he was in Kyle, and preached upon the text, "The plowers plowed upon my back, and drew long their furrows." Where he said, “Would ye know who first yoked their plow? It was cursed Cain, when he drew his furrows so long and deep, that he let out the heart blood of his brother Abel: and his cursed seed has, and will gang summer and winter, frost and fresh weather till the world's end; and at the sound of the last trumpet when all are in a flame, their sheets will burn and their swingle-trees will fall to the ground; the plowmen will lose their grips of the plow, and the gadmen will throw away their gads and then O yelling and shrieking that will be among all this cursed seed clapping their hands, and crying to the hill and mountains to cover them from the face of Lamb, and of him that sits upon the throne, for their hatred of him, and malice at his people."

After sermon, when marrying a pair of folks, when the man had the woman by the hand, he said. "Indeed man you have a bonny bride by the hand, I see a covetous devil in her; she is both a thief and a whore let her go, you will be ashamed of