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[ 8 ] cry out. O, rebuke him! for he will not be rebuked by me. Then all diſappeared.

12 hat 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 band, 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 this ame month I aw two living creatures having ix 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 hath 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 Spainyards, 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 atiate 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 judgments 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 harbour, 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 it is accompliſhed, it will be ſaid as the queen or Sheba ſaid to Solomon, that the one half was not told of what ſhe had found. For I have two words drawn, that of a foreign and that of an inteſting enemy, and if ye find any favour, it will be at the land of foreign enemy.

16. At another time I was awakened with a cry, aying, This is the ſecond time I have come unto thee with this