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 from the 7th verse to the end; when ending, he repeated the 7th verse,

Saying, These and the following are sweet lines, which I got at the burn-side this morning; and we’ll get more to-morrow, and so we’ll get daily provision. He was never behind with any that put their trust in him; and he will not be in our common nor none who needily depend on him, and so we will go on in his strength, making mention of his righteousness, and of his only. The forsaid James Cubison went eight miles with him; when he took good night, he said, Sir, I think I'll never see you again. He said, James, you and I will never meet again in time. And two several times he went to Ireland before, when they parted, he told them that they would meet again.-The said James, John Muirhead, and others of our sufferers, who were present, gave me these accounts.

23. Shortly after they landed from Ireland in Galloway, the enemy got notice, they being then in garrisons, foot and horse, and it being killing-time, the alarm came to them in a morning, that foot and horse were coming upon them; the foresaid John Muirhead being struck with a violent pain in his forehead, they started up to run for it; He Said. Stay, stay lads! let us pray for old John ere we go. He stood up and said, Lord, we hear tell that thy enemies and ours are coming upon us, and thou hast hid thy hand of affliction on old John, have pity upon him, for thy enemies will have none; his blood will run where he lies! spare him at this time, we know not if he be ready to die. And, as John told me, with tears in his eyes, the pain in his head, and the indisposition of his body quite left him, and he started up and ran with the rest. The enemies seeing them pursued them hard, sometimes the horse, and sometimes the foot being near them, mossy,