Page:Twenty remarkable passages in the life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden, late minister of the gospel at New Glenluce, in Galloway.pdf/4

4 at New Glenluce in Galloway; and when he was obliged, by the violence and tyranny  of that time, to leave that parish, he lectured upon Acts xx. 17, to the end; and he preached upon verse 31st. in the forenoon, "Therefore watch, and remember, that for the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day, with tears."—Asserting, that he had declared the whole counsel of God, and had kept nothing back; and protested that he was free of the blood of all souls. And, in the afternoon, he preached on the 32nd verse. "And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified."—Which was a weeping day in that Kirk; the greatest part could not contain themselves, he many times requested them to be silent; but they sorrowed most of all, when he told them, that they should never see his face in that pulpit again. He continued until night; and when he closed the pulpit-door, he knocked hard upon it three times with his Bible, saying three times over, I arrest in my Master's name, that never one enter there, but such as come in by the door, as I did. Accordingly, neither Curate nor Indulged Minister never entered that pulpit, until after the Revolution, that a Presbyterian Minister opened it.

I had this account from old persons in that parish, who were witnesses to it, and worthy of all credit.

3. this he joined with that honest and zealous handful in the year 1666, that was