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 keeper ſaid, "Will you run for it?" He ſaid, "No, no; have done no ill thing, that needs make me either afraid  aſhamed. Well, ſaid the keeper, go home to your bed, and I will ſend a ſervant for you the morrow's morning." When he went home, it was his ordinary in his family-worſhip, to ſing theſe lines in the 109th Pſalm,

When ended, he ſaid to his wife, "I never found ſuch gale upon my ſpirit as in the ſinging of theſe lines." She ſaid it was ſo with her alſo. "Well ſaid he, let us commit our caſe and cauſe to the Lord, and wait on him; and we ſhall know the meaning of this afterwards; The unhappy man fell immediately ill, and ſaid, that all this miſchief had come upon him, for what he had done againſt John Goodale; and cauſed write, and ſigned a diſcharge, and ſent it to the ſaid John, that he might not be troubled for the expence he had been at in the geting of that caption. He died under great horror of conſcience. Notwithſtanding he was detained three years priſoner, working at his employment in the Tolbooth, in the day-time, and went home to his bed at night. The ſaid John and his wife returned to Scotland, and died ſince the Revolution. His wife, when dying at Leith, gave this relation.

3. When Mr. Peden was priſoner in Edinburgh, under ſentence of baniſhment, James Millar, merchant in Kirkcaldy, was under the ſame ſentence; and his wife came to viſit him: Mr. Peden ſaid to her, "It is no wonder you be troubled with your huſband's going to the plantations; but if any of us go there at this time, the Lord never ſpake by me."

4. In their voyage to London, they had the opportunity to command the ſhip, and make their eſcape, but would not adventure upon it, without his advice. He ſaid, "Let alone, for the Lord will ſet us all at liberty in a way more for his own glory and our ſafety."

5. About this time, in their voyage, on the Sabbath,