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13 used to take blood, he got some blood of him, but all in vain, for he died before midnight. The said Robert, an old man, told me this passage when we were both in prison together.

17. the year 1682, he was in Kyle, and preached upon that text. The plowers plowed upon my back, and drew long their furrows. Where he said, "Would ye know who first yoked this plow! It was cursed Cain, when he drew his furrows so long and also deep, that he let out the heart-blood of his brother Abel; and his cursed seed has, and will gang, summer and winter, frost and fresh weather, till the world's end; and at the sound of the last trumpet, when all are in a flame; their theets will burn, and their swingletrees will fall to the ground, the plowmen will lose their gripes of the plow, and the gadman will throw away their gads: and then, O the yelling and shrieking that will be among all this cursed seed, clapping their hands, and crying to the hills and mountains to cover them from the face of the Lamb, and of Him that sits upon the Throne, for their hatred of Him, and malice at his people."

18. In the beginning of May 1685, he came to the house of John Brown and Marion Weir, whom he married before he went to Ireland, where he stayed all nights and in the morning, when he took farewell, he came out at the door, saying to himself, "Poor woman, a fearful ntorning, (twice over) a dark misty morning." The next morning, between five and six o'clock, the said John Brown, having performed the worship of God in his family, was going with a spade in his hand, to put some peat