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Rh make him that he had better be off the world than upon it. Then one of them aſked me, what was that I had done? and repeated the former diſcourſes to me, and ſaid, ſince thou haſt done ſo, I will learn thee a way to mind it, deny thou ſaid ſo, I anſwered, how can I do that? I have told not to ſome that will be believed, though I ſhould ſay to the contrary: but he ſtill continued with temptations and terrible threatnings, to that purpoſe, till at laſt I was made to cry out, O Lord, rebuke him, for he will not be rebuked by me. Then all diſappeared.

12. That in Nov: 1729. I thought I was ſtanding in the open fields, and ſaw a man coming to me with a big cup of blood in his hand, which, when I beheld, he told me, he had a commiſſion to divide that cup into leſſor ſups among five cities: then I ſaw ſive cups in his other hand so to be divided; be named Edinburgh, Glaſgow, and Ayr, as for the other two, I do not politively remember them. Which blood was to purge theſe cities of blood, for I will purge them till I bring my remnant to ſay, what have we to do any more with idols.

13. On this fame month I ſaw two living creatures having ſis wings, two covered their faceſ, two covered their ſeet, and with two they did ſly, and they cried, Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, glory be to thee who that ſaid, I will not give my glory to another, nor my praiſe to graven imagies. I will not give my glory to Engliſh nor Iriſiſh, to French nor spaniard, to Pope, nor Pagan, but I willnmake the glory to myſelf, and will cover myſelf with a cloud mine anger, that they ſhall not ſee my face, and I will run upon my enemies, and tread them as mire in the ſtreets, and will ſaturate the earth with their blood as with dung, and then I will take mine anger and the rod, and tyemthem together, and throw them in the furnace.

14. At another time it was ſaid before me, that it was a token of judgements to come upon the land, that the miniſters were ſo unconcerned when the Lord was about to bring a deſolating ſtroke both by ſea and land, the ſmoke hereof ſhall be ſeen from one land to another, that in ſome harbour, there ſhall ſcarcely one house we left to tell another, yonder a ſhip coming into the harbour.