Page:Some remarkable passages of the life and death of Master Alexander Peden.pdf/17

, I have lost my prospect wherewith I was wont to over to the bloody land and tell you and others  enemies and friends were doing: the devil and I  and rides time about upon other: but if I were  again, I shall ride hard, and spurgaw well:  have been praying for a swift passage over to the  land, come of us what will; and now Alexander  is away with my prayer wind; but it were good  the remnant in Scotland, he never saw it; for, as  Lord lives, he shall wound that interest e'er he go  the stage. Which sadly came to pass in his life, & a reproach to it at his death A little before they  off, he baptized a child to John Maxwell a Glasgow man, who was fled over from the persecution; in  discourse before baptism, he burst out into a rapture  that black day that came upon Ireland, and  days to Scotland, and then good days. Mrs., or Mary Elphinston, the mother of the child, yet in Glasgow, told me this, that in the time he was  these things, she was thinking and wondering what ground of assurance he had for them; he cried , shaking his hand at her, and said, Woman, thou  thinking and wondering within thyself, whether I  speaking those things out of the visions of my own , or if I be taught by the spirit of God; but I tell  woman, thou shalt live & see that I am not mistaken. told me, that she was very lately delivered, and out her great desire to have her child baptized before he  off, that she took travel too soon, and b ingbeing [sic] weak,  so surprized with telling her the thoughts of her, that she was in danger of falling off the chair. this exercise also he told them, that he could not win he got this d nedone [sic], and this was all the drink money he had left in Ireland, and to the family (pointing  his landlord) for all the kindness he had met with  them. After baptism they got breakfast: there plenty of bread upon the table, and seeking a, he put his hand beneath the bread, holding it up  affection and tears, said, Lord, there is a well  table and plenty of bread; but what comes of  poor, young, kindly, honest lad Renwick, that  all, in staying and holding up his fainting  head, when of all the children she has brought  none will avowedly take h rher [sic] by the hand; and the poor, cold, hungry lads upon the hills; for the  of thine own cause, let them not starve, thou , greedy of flesh itself,