Page:Twenty remarkable passages in the life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden, late minister of the gospel at New Glenluce, in Galloway.pdf/9

9 11. they arrived at London, the Skipper who received them at Leith, was to carry them no further. The Skipper who was to receive them there, and carry them to Virginia came to see then, they being represented to him as thieves, robbers, and evil-doers; but when he found they were all grave Christian men, banished for Presbyterian principles, he said, he would sail the sea with none such.—In this confusion, that the one Skipper would not receive them, and the other would keep them no longer, being expensive to maintain them, they were all set at liberty, It was reported, that both the Skippers got compliments from friends at London; however, it is certain they were safely set free, without any imposition of bonds of oaths; and their friends at London, and on their way homewards thro' England, shewed much kindness unto them.

12. dismal day, June 22d, 1679, at Bothwell-bridge, that the Lord's people fell, and fled before the enemy, he was forty miles distant, near the border, and kept himself retired until the middle of that day, that some friends said to him, "Sir, the people are waiting for sermon." He said, "Let the people go to their prayers; for me, I neither can, nor will preach any this day; for our friends are fallen and fled before the enemy at Hamilton; and they are hanging and hashing them down, and their blood is running like water."

13. this, he was preaching in Galloway: In the afternoon he prayed earnestly for the prisoners taken at and about