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 long God shall write such a sudden surprizing judgment on thee, that shall stay thy Laughing, and thou shalt not escape it. Very shortly after, she was walking upon the rock, and there came a blast of wind & swept her off in o the sea, where she was lost.

While prisoner there, one day walking upon the rock some soldiers passing by him, one of them cried, devil take him. He said, Fy, fy, poor man, thou knowest not what thou art saying, but thou wilt repent that. At which words the soldier stood astonished, and to the guard distracted, crying aloud for Mr. Peden, saying. The devil would immediately take him away; came to him again, & found him in his right mind under deep convictions of great guilt; the guard being  change, they desired him to go to his arms, he refused and said, He would lift no arms against Jesus Christ  cause, and persecute his people, I have done that  long. The governour threatned him with death about 10 of the clock, he confidently said,  times, Tho he should tear all his body in pieces,  should never lift arms that way. About three days the governour put him out of the garrison, setting him ashore, he having a wife and children, took a house in east Lothian, where he became a singular Christian. Mr. Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others who informed me.

7. When brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment past upon him, in 1678, and 60 more fellow prisoners for the same cause to go to America, never to be seen in Scotland again under the pain of death; after this sentence was past he several times said, that the ship was not yet  that should take him and these prisoners to Virginia or any other of the English plantations in America. One James Kay a solid grave Christian, being one of them that lived in or about the water of Leith, told me this, that Mr. Peden, said to him, James, when your wife comes in let me see your wife; which he did, going to Mr. Peden's room, after some discourse, he called for a drink, and when he sought a blessing, he said Good Lord, let not James Kay's wife miss her husband until thou return him to her in peace and safety, which we are sure will be sooner than either he or she is looking for, accordingly that same day month that he parted with her at Lieth, he came home to her at the water of Lieth.

8. When they were on ship board in the road of Lieth