Page:Twenty remarkable passages in the life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden, late minister of the gospel at New Glenluce, in Galloway.pdf/7

7 persecute his people; he had done that too long. The Governor threatened him with death to-morrow about ten o'clock; but he confidently said, three times, though he should tear all his body in pieces, he should never lift arms that way. About three days after, the Governor put him out of the garrison, and set him a-shore. He having a wife and children, took a house in East Lothian, where he became a singular Christian. Mr. Peden told these astonishing passages to the foresaid John Cubison and others, who informed me.

8. brought from the Bass to Edinburgh, and sentence of banishment passed upon him in Dec. 1678, and sixty more fellow prisoners, for the same cause, to go to America, never to be seen in Scotland again, under the pain of death; after this sentence was passed, he several times said, that the ship was not yet built that should take him and these pri- [sic] prisoners to Virginia, or any other of the English plantations in America.

9. James Kay, a solid and grave Christian, one of the above prisoners, who lives in or about the water of Leith, told me, that Mr. Peden said to him, "James, when your wife comes in, let ne see her." Which he did. After some discourse, he called for a drink; and when he sought a blessing, he said, "Good Lord, let not James Kay's wife, miss her husband, till thou return him to her in peace and safety: which we are sure will be sooner than either he or she is looking for." Accordingly, the same day-month