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 an account in the former passages, about the middle of that day many people were waiting for Sermon; when some told him he said, Let the people go to their prayers for I can preach none; our friends are all fled and fallen before the enemy, and they are hagging and hashing them down, and their blood is running like water! At night he was called to supper, having tasted nothing that day, several friends being present: in seeking a blessing he broke out in a rapture of weeping and lamentations for that sad stroke upon the bodies of the Lord's people; but much more for the dead stroke the greatest part had got upon their spirits, that few of the ministers and professors of Scotland should ever recover; which sadly held true, as I formerly mentioned the scrapes of writings of that blast of east withering wind. He also insisted in 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 tasting of their supper, tho' 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 preceding verses, especially upon that; 'Wo unto them that are at ease in Zion.' He insisted upon the true nature of grieving; 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. The 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 grat for her, calf: she replied, I could not tell him that which I knew not, and as little did he. At the same time he ſaw some of the people turning weary; he said, Ye are not taking notice; some of you are