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HERE are three or four things that I have to tell you this day, which I muſt not omit, becauſe I will be but a breakfaſt ſome hour or another, to the enemy, and my work will be finiſhed, and my time both.

The Firſt is this, As for king Charles, who is now upon the throne, after his death, there ſhall not be a crowned king of the name of Stuart in Scotland.

A ſecond thing, There ſhall not be an old covenanter's head above the ground, that ſwore theſe covenants with uplifted hands in Scotland, e'er ye get the reformation ſet up in Scotland,

A third thing, a man ſhall ride a ſummer-day's journey within the ſhire of Air, and ſhall not ſee a houſe reek, or a cock crow, e'er ye get reformation; and ſeveral other ſhires in Scotland as ill.

A fourth thing, The rod than the Lord will make inſtruments of, ſhall be the French, and the French king, together with a party in this land joining with them; but ye that ſtand to the Teſtimony in that day, be not diſcouraged at the fewneſs of your number; when Chriſt comes to ſet up his work in Scotland, he will not want men anew to work for him; yea, he will chap upon the greateſt man in all Scotland, and he will be the greateſt Malignant in it, and he will ſay, Sir, let alone this Babel building, for I have another piece of work to put in your hand; and he will gar him work whether he will or not: It may be that he will convert the man, and give him his foul for a prey; and there is many of you that is my hearers this day, that ſhall live and ſee theſe things accompliſh'd. And after theſe deſolations are over, ye ſhall ſee the noblemen and gentlemens houſes ruined, ſo that the nettles will be growing out of both their bedchambers, or ye die, and the memory and poſterity of them ſhall periſh from the earth, and from under the heavens.