Page:True relation of the surprising foreknowledge and wonderful predictions of the Rev. Mr. Allan Logan.pdf/2



T pleaſed God in the creation of the world, In the declaration of his Son, and on certain other great occaſions to uſe his own voice, "He ſpoke the word and it was done, He commanded and it ſtood faſt"—But in more ordinary caſes He has been pleaſed to communicate his will to mankind thro' the channel of holy men, inſpired with divine wiſdom, and among the more modern of theſe, the reverend Mr. Allan Logan miniſter of the goſpel at Culroſs in Perthſhire was exceedingly eminent; he had an amazing gift of foreknowledge and diſcernment of perſons' fates and ſtates, on ſight of their faces, and ſtill more, he did truly predictate the fates of others whom he never ſaw, and the accompliſhments thereof demonſtrate his forekņowledge of the ſame, which cauſed his unuſual viſiting to be ſuſpected and looked upon as a forerunner of ſome trouble or deſolation.

So by his numerous predictions, he was eſteem'd as a prophet: One inſtance I ſhall mention which is as follows, a man who then lived in Clackmannan, as he was coming through Culroſs driving a horſe, he aſked him how far he deſigned that night, to which the man anſwered all the way to Clackmannan, about four ſhort miles from Culroſs, to which Mr. Logan ſaid, you will not go there this night; the man marked his words, and ſays to himſelf he ſhould make him a liar in that, tho' other people took all his words and ſayings for truth; he ſhould be home that night if it ſhould come ever ſo dark, as he was perfectly well acquainted with every ſtep of the road: But he had not gone above a mile, until it became ſo dark that he loſt ſight of his own horſe going on the road before him, and