Page:Twenty remarkable passages in the life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden, late minister of the gospel at New Glenluce, in Galloway.pdf/10

10 ; but in the afternoon when he began to pray for them, he halted and said. "Our friends at Edinburgh, the prisoners, have done somewhat to save their lives that shall not do them any good; for the sea-billows shall be many of their winding-sheets; and the few of them that escape, shall not be useful to God in their generations." Which was sadly verified thereafter. That which the greatest part of these prisoners did, was the taking of that Bond, commonly called the Black-Bond, after Bothwell, wherein they acknowledged their appearance in arms, for the defence of the Gospel, and their own lives, to be rebellion; and engaged themselves never to make any more oppositions: upon the doing of which, these perfidious enemies promised them life and liberty: which much grieved Mr. Peden.

14. After the public murdering of these two worthy women martyrs, Isobel Allison and Marion Harvie, in the Grass-market of Edinburgh, January, 1681, he was in Galloway; a professor of some note, who had more carnal wit and policy than to suffer him to be honest and faithful, after reasoning upon the grounds of their sufferings, affirmed that they would never be reckoned among the number of the martyrs. Mr. Peden said, after musing a little, "Let alone, you'll never be honoured with such a death: and for what you have said against these two worthy lasses, your death will be both sudden and surprising." Which was shortly thereafter; the man standing before the fire, smocking his pipe, dropt down dead, without speaking more.