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 will rise against the house of Jerusalem with the sword. He said “I will tell you good news, our Lord will take a feather out of Antichrist s wing, which shall bring down the Duke of York and banish him out of these kingdoms, and will remove the bloody word from above the heads of it's people: And there will never a man of the name of Stawart for upon the throne of Britain after the Duke of York, whose reign is now short for their lechery, treachery, tyranny, and shedding the precious blood of the Lord’s people: But oh! black, black, black will the day be that will come upon Ireland that they shall travail forty miles, and not see a reeking house, nor hear a cock crow!”

At this he started up to his feet, and clapt his hands, and with a ravishing voice cried aloud. “Glory glory to the Lord, that has accepted a bloody sacrifice of a sealed test mony of Scotland’s land, we have a bloody clout to hold up, and the lads that got the bullets thro’ their heads the last day at Glentrol their blood has made the clout redder. When our Lord looks upon the bloody clout, he will keep the sword of his avenging justice in the strait for a time but if Scotland shall not consider the merciful day of their visitation, nor his long-suffering patience and forbearance lead them to repentance, as we fear it will not, but harden therm in their sin, and the greater part turn gospel-proof and judgment-proof, and wax worse and worse, then will the Lord accomplish all that he has threatoned a well-deserved foreseen and foretold day of vengeance; when he begins he will also make an end, especially against the house of Eli, for the iniquity which they cannot but know.”

When ended, he and those that were with him, lay down in the sheep-house and got some sleep: He rose early and went up to the burn-side. and stayed long: when he came into them, he did sing the xxxii. Psalm,