Page:Twenty remarkable passages in the life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden, late minister of the gospel at New Glenluce, in Galloway.pdf/6

6 conversing with him. The council ordered 50 pounds sterling to be paid to the Major out of the fines, and ordained him to divide 25 pounds sterling among the party that apprehended him Some time after examination, he was sent prisoner to the Bass, where, and at Edinburgh, he remained until December 1668, that he was banished.

6. prisoner in the Bass, one Sabbath morning, being about the public worship of God, a young lass, about 13 or 14 years of age, came to the chamber-door, mocking with loud laughter: he said, "Poor thing, thou mocks and laughs at the worship of God; but ere long, God shall write such a sudden surprising judgment on thee, that shall slay thy laughing, and thou shalt not escape it."— Very shortly after, she was walking on the rock, and there came a blast of wind and sweeped her into the sea, where she perished.

7. day, when Mr. Peden was taking the air upon the rock, some soldiers passing by him, one of them said, "Devil take him," "Fy, fy, poor man, said Mr. Peden, thou knowest not what thou art saying; but thou wiitwilt [sic] repent that." At which words the soldier stood astonished, and went to the guard-house distracted, crying aloud for Mr. Peden, saying, the Devil would immediately take him away! But when Mr. Peden came to him, he found him in his right mind, under deep convictions of great guilt. The guard being to change, they desired him to go to his arms: which he refused to do, and said he would lift no arms against Jesus Christ and his cause, to