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 whom God should spare and hide. 3dly, They should lie in holes and Caves of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink; and when they come out of their holes, they shall not have freedom to walk for stumbling on dead corpses. 4thly, A stone cut out of the mountain should come down and God shall be avenged on the great ones of the earth, and the inhabitants of the land for their wickedness; and then the church should come forth with a bonny bairn time at her back of young ones. He wished that the Lord’s people might lie hid in their Caves, as if they wee not in the world, for nothing would do it, then God appeared with his judgments, and they that wan through the bitter and sharp short storm, by the storm of the Frenches, and a set of unhappy men, taking part with them, then there would be a spring-tide day of the plenty, purity and power of the gospel: giving them that for a sign, if he were but once buried, they might be in doubts; but if lie were oftener buried than once, they might be persuaded that all h had said would come to pass; and earnestly desired them to take his corpse out to Airdsmoss, and bury them beside Richy, meaning Mr Cameron, that he might get rest in his grave, for he had gotten little through his life; but I know ye will not do this, He told them, that bury him where they would, he would be lifted again; but the man thathat [sic] put first to his hand to lift his corpse Four things should befal him: 1. He should get a great fall from a horse. 2. He should fall in adultery. 3. In theft, and for these he should leave the land. 4. Make a melancholy end abroad for murder, which accordingly came to pass. There was one Murdoch, a mason to his trade, out then in the military service, who first put his hand to his corpse. A little before his death, he said, ye shall be angry where I shall be buried at last, but I discharge you all to his my corpse again. At last one morning early he came to the door, and left his Cave; his brother’s Wife said, where are you going? the enemy will be here. He said, I know that. Alas! sir, said she, what will become of you? You must back to the cave again: he said I have done with that for it is discovered; but there is no matter, for within 48 hours I will be beyond the reach of all the devil’s temptations, and his instruments in hell or on the earth, and they shall trouble me no more. About three hours after he entered the