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 hearing all, was ſo grieved, that he came to the chamber-door, and ſaid to the ſaid Hugh, "Sir, hold your peace, e'er twelve o'clock, thou ſhalt know what for a man Mr. Cameron was, God ſhall puniſh that blaſphemous mouth and curſed tongue of yours in ſuch a manner, as ſhall be aſtonishing to all that ſhall ſee you, and ſhall ſet you up as a beacon to all railing Rabſhakehs." Robert Brown knowing Mr. Peden, haſted to his horſe, being perſuaded that Mr. Peden's words would not fall to the ground, and fearing that ſome miſchief might befal him for being in the ſaid Hugh's company, he rode hard home. Robert went to his own houſe, and Hugh to the Earl's houſe, and caſting off his boots, he was ſtruck with ſuch a ſickneſs and pain through his body, with his mouth ſo wide, and his tongue hanging ſo far out, in a fearful manner, that they ſent for the ſaid Robert. Being uſed to take blood, he got ſome blood of him, but all in vain: he died before midnight. The ſaid Robert, an old man, told me this paſſage when in priſon together.

15. In the year 1682, he was in Kyle. and preached upon that text, The plower's plowed upon my back, and drew long their furrows. Where he ſaid, "Would ye know who firſt yoked this 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 theets will burn, and their ſwingle-trees will fall to the ground; the plowmen will loſe their gripes of the plow, and the gadmen will throw away their gads; and then, O the yelling and ſhrieking that will be among all this curſed ſeed, clapping their hands and crying to the hills and mountains to cover them from the face of the Lamb, and of him that ſits upon the throne, for their hatred of him, and malice at his people."