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36 the rebellion 1715, and ſince the ſtock-jobbing, a fooliſh haſte to be rich hath made many poor; and many other ways and things, living above their ſtations and incomes, ſpending their money on gaming, wine and women, have brought it to paſs. There are ſome ſentences in the end of our national covenant, that may ſtrike terror to the hearts of all ranks ; ſuch as, We call the living God, the ſearcher of our hearts to witneſs, who knoweth this to be our ſincere deſire and unfeigned reſolution, as we ſhall anſwer to Jeſus Chriſt at the great day, and under the pains of God's everlaſting wrath, and of infamy and loſs of all honour and reſpect in this world, &c.

The next Sabbath after he went from the Bentyrig, he preached at Auchingilloch, in the ſouth ſide of Clydeſdale, and then returned to Clyde. The week before he was taken, he was in the Lee-wood, where he married Robert Marſhall, of Starry-ſhaw, brother to the foreſaid Thomas and John Marſhall, After they were gone from him, Marion Couper, ſpouſe to John Weir, who dwelt in the Mains of Lee, two ſolid Chriſtians and ſufferers in that time, brought his dinner to him in the wood: In the time thereof he ſaid, What induced Robert to marry this woman: this woman's ill will overcome his good, he will not keep the way long, his thriving days are done: which ſadly came to paſs in every jot. A little time thereafter he was taken and put in priſon, fell in ſoul compliance with the enemies, went home and heard the curates, and other ſteps of defection, and became lightly eſteemed. This was the laſt marriage he formed, in which both he, Peden, Cameron, and Renwick, took as little delight as in any piece of their miniſterial work, although they would neither diſſuade or refuſe, having ſuch a deep concern upon their ſpirits, and looking upon it as an evidence of unconcernedneſs with the many grievous things in that day, and of ſuch a tendency to increaſe their afflictions: Some of them ſhortly thereafter were