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 Being in this strait he said to Robert Wark, an old worthy Christian, worthy of credit, “Robert, go and take such a man with you, and the first bark ye can find, compel him, for they will be like the dogs in Egypt not one of them will move their tongue against you.” Accordingly, Robert and his comrade found it out so, and brought her to that secret place where he was. When Robert and his comrade came and told him, he was glad and very kind and free; but he seemed under a cloud at that time. He said, “Lads, I have lost my prospect, wherewith I was wont to look over to the bloody land, and tell you and others, what enemies and friends were doing: the devil and I push and rides time about upon one another; but if I were uppermost again, I shall ride hard, and spurgaw wen: I have been praying for a swift passage over to the sinful land, come of us what will: And now Alexander Gordon is away with my prayer-wind; but it were good for the remnant in Scotland he never saw it; for he will assuredly wound that interest ere he go off the stage. This sadly came to pass in his life, and was a reproach to it at his death.

A little before they came off, he baptised a child to John Maxwell a Glasgow-man, who was fled over from the persecution: in his discourse before the baptism, he burst out into a rapture, foretelling that black day that was to come upon Ireland, and sad days to Scotland, and after all this, was good days to come. Mrs. Maxwell, or Mary Elphingston, the mother of the child, yet alive in Glasgow, told me, that in the time he was asserting these things; she was thinking and wondering what ground of assurance he had for them, he cried aloud, shaking his hand at her, and said, Woman, thou art thinking and wondering within thyself whether I be speaking those things out of the visions of my own head or if I be taught by the Spirit of God; I tell thee, woman, thou shalt have and see that I am not mistaken.