Page:Twenty remarkable passages in the life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden, late minister of the gospel at New Glenluce, in Galloway.pdf/11

11 15. In the month of June, 1682, he was in the house of James Brown, Douglas, John Wilson in Lanark, was with him, who suffered martyrdom in the Grass-market of Edinburgh, the next year, May 1685. He lectured at night upon Amos viii. and repeated these words in the 6th verse three times, And I will rise against the house of Jeroboan with the sword. He laid his hands on the said John, and said, "John, have at the unhappy name of Stewarts! off the throne shall they go, if all the world should set side and shoulder to hold them on." Afterwards he broke out in a rapture about our Martyrs, saying, "They were going on the stage with fresh gales and full sails, and now they are glancing in glory! O if ye saw them! they would flee go out of your wits." He again laid his hands upon the said John, and said, "Encourage yourself in the Lord, and hold him fast, John; for you'll win up yonder shortly, and get on your braws." That night he went to the fields. To-morrow, about six o'clock John went to seek him, and found him coming to the house. He said, "John, let us go from the house, for the devil is about it and will take his prey with him." John said. "We will take breakfast ere we go, it is a question when we will get the offer again." He answered, "No, no, I will not eat bread in this place; our landlord is an unhappy man the devil will get him shortly, for the will hang himself." Which very shortly after came to pass; his daughter, Joan Brown, was the first that got him in her arms, hanging in the stable. She was reckoned by all to be a grave Christian lass, but from that day never had her health. and died of decay at last, after she had been