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being snow, she and others sat down in the kitchen, at the fire-sipe; then Mr Peden came into the kitchen, and called for water to wash his hands: and seeing them he said, "For what do you come here without ye had been advertised? For I have nothing prepared for you. They said. "O Sir you must not send us away empty, for we are in a starving condition" He said, "I cannot promise you, but if I can get any thing, ye shall not want it." A little while therafter, he called, and said, "Let not these people away for I will come to them shortly." Which he did and preached upon that text, The day being far spent they constrained him to tarry all night Where he broke out in strange raptures expressing his fears of the Lord's departure from these lands He said, 'England for superstition and profanity, Ireland for securiety and formality, great shall thy stroke be! For in a few years ye may travel forty miles in Ireland, and not get a light to your pipe!" Which came to pass four years thereafter, in the last rebellion. He also said, "O Scotland! may, long, and great shall thy juggements be of all kind's, especially on the west and south, for loathing & contempt of the Gospel, covenant-breaking, burning and burying, and shedding of innocent; precious, dear, blood ! O! all ye that can pray, try if ye can teagle him, O! see if ye can teagle him, teagle him especially in Scotlaud, for we fear he will depart from it." Whan ended, he said, "Take ye that among you, and make a good use of it; for I have gotten it new and fresh out of heaven, having nothing of it this morning" The forcsaid Jan Muirhead, and the said old woman, and others told me, they were never witness to such a day, for so many tears, both from preachers and hearers.
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