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8 it is accompliſhed, it will be ſaid as the queen of Sheba ſaid to Solomon, that the one half was not told of what ſhe had found. For I have two ſwords drawn, that of a foreign, and that of an inteſtine-enemy, and if ye find any favour, it will be at the hand of the foreign enemy.

16. At another time I was awakened with a cry, ſaying, This is the ſecond time I have come unto thee with this warning, but thou regardeſt more the town talk of the country, than my warnings, but I will make thee an iron pillar, and a brazen wall againſt this generation; ſpeak therefore what I command thee, leſt I confound thee before them. I do not ſay as before, a ſacrifice in Bozrah, but I ſay, a ſacrifice in thee, wretched Scotland? for I will dye the ground with blood from Gath-hill, to Irvine-water, for I will purge my church of Popery and Prelacy, and all other errors, which are not according to the true principles of the church: For I will bring a ſmall army with a few miniſters of the principles of the mountain-men, ſometime ago, nicknamed Whigs, and they ſhall be the true ſeed of the church.

17. The reaſon why I was ſo deſirous to acquaint others with what was laid before me, was becauſe of the ſore rebuke I had for neglecting it. I apprehended I heard two men coming by the houſe, the one ſaying to the other, I have an old blind man in this houſe, I muſt ſpeak to him before I go any further; and turning myſelf on my bed, I ſaw a young man in bright clothing, who ſaid to me, What I have laid before thee, deny it not, but maintain it, and what thou haſt not ſpoken, ſpeak, and what other things I lay before thee conceal them not, whether they hear, or whether they forbear; they ſhall know that I have laid thee there for that end, and thou ſhalt not want a reward, for I never bade any man ſerve me for nothing; and if thou diſobey my commiſſion, I will fill thy bed with a ſulphureous ſmoke, that none ſhall be able to come near thee, and leſt thou be diſcouraged about where the ſmoke ſhall come from, I will open the mouth of the bottomleſs pit, the habitation of thoſe that diſobey my commands, and let thee ſee what ſmoke cometh out of it; upon which I was ſo affrighted, that I came under a ſolemn promiſe, that what