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Rh ed the former diſcourſes to me, and ſaid, Since thou aſt done ſo, I will learn thee a way to mend it, deny thou ſaid ſo, I anſwered, How can I do that! I have told it to ſome that will be believed, tho’ 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, 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 leſſer cups among five cities: then I ſaw five cups in his other hand, ſo to be divided; he named Edinburgh, Glaſgow and Ayr: As for the other two, I do not poſitively 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 the ſame month I ſaw two living creatures having ſix wings, two covered their faces, two covered their feet, and with two they did fly, and they cried, Holy, holy Lord God almighty, glory be to thee who haſt ſaid, I will not give my glory to another, nor my praiſe to graven images. I will not give my glory to Engliſh, nor Iriſh, to French nor Spaniards, to Pope nor Pagan, but I will take the glory to myſelf, and will cover myſelf with a cloud in mine anger, that they ſhall not ſee my face, and I will run upon mine enemies, and tread them as mire in the ſtreets, and will ſatiate the earth with their blood as with dung, and then I will take mine anger and the rod and tye them together, and throw them in the furnace.

14. At another time it was laid 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 whereof ſhall be ſeen from one land to another, that in ſome harbours, there ſhall ſcarcely one houſe be left to tell another. Yonder a ſhip coming into the harbour.

15. It was laid before me, that the Lord was about to purſue the blood of his ſervants, from the year 1661 to this day, and nothing will purge blood but blood, and when