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( 21 ) and cavet of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink; and when they come out of their holes, they shall not have freedom to walk, for stumbling on dead corpses.—4thly, A stone, cut out of a mountain, should come down, and God shall be avenged on the great ones of the earth, and the inhabitants of the land, for their wickedness; and then the church should come forth with a bonny bairn-time of young ones at her back. Giving them that for a sign, if he were but once buried, they might be in doubts; but if he were oftener buried than once, they might be persuaded that all he had said would come to pass.

20. died January 28th, 1686, being past sixty years; and was buried in Lord Afflect's Isle. The enemies got notice of his death and burial, and sent a troop of dragoons, and lifted his corpse, and carried him to Camnock-gallows-foot, and buried him there (after being forty days in the grave) beside other martyrs. His friends thereafter laid a grave-stone above him, with this inscription,

Here lies MR. ALEXANDER PEDEN, A faithful Minister of the Gospel: Who departed this life January 28, 1686. And was raised, after 6 weeks, out of his Grave Add buried here out of contempt.