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6 After they were set at liberty, he stayed a London and through England until June 1679 Upon the 21st of June, he was come to the south of Scotland, being Saturday, the day before the Lord's people fell and fled before the enemy at Bothwelbridge: In his exercise in a family, he said, "I will tell you, sirs, our deliverance will never come by the sword Many thought, when the bishops were first set up, that they would not continue seven years: but I was never of that mind: it is now near three sevens, but they will not see the fourth seven but I fear they will come near to it." Which sadly came to pass.
7 He went that night to the fields, and came in on Sabbath morning about sun-rising weeping and wringing his hands: one John Simpson a godly man, enquired what the matter was that made him weep. He said, "I have been wrestling all night with God, for our friends that are in the west, but cannot prevail" I gave an account in the former passages, about the middle of that day many people were waiting for sermon when some told him, he said "Let the people go to their prayers, for I can preach none; our friends are all fallen and fled before the enemy, and they are hagging and hasing them down, and their blood is running like water. At night he was called to supper, having tasted nothing that day, several friends being present: In seeking a blessing, he broke out into a rapture of weeping and lamentations for the sad stroke upon the bodies of the Lord's people; but much more for the dead-stroke the most part of them had got upon their spirits that few of the ministers and professors of Scotland, should ever recover; which sadly held true; as I formerly mentioned in the scrapes of writings of that blast of east withering wind. He also insisted in
