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 overhearing 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 shall 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 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: be 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 plowers 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.”