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came and told him, he was glad and very kind and free; but seemed under a cloud at that time. He said lads, I have lost my prospeet wherewith I was wont to look over to the bloody land, and tell you and others what enemies and friends were doing; the devil and I paddles and rides time-about upon one another: but if I were uppermost again, I shall ride hard, and spurgaw well. I have been praying for a swift passage over to the sinful land, come of us what will: and now Alexander Gordon is away with my prayer-wind; but it were good for the remnant in Seotland he never saw it; for as the Lord lives, he shall wound that interest ere he go off the stage - This sadly came to pass in his life, and was a reproaeh to it at his death. A little before they came off, he baptized a ehild to John Maxwell, a Glasgow man, who was fled over from the perseeution: in his diseourse before baptism, he bursted out into a rapture, foretelling that blaek day that was to come upon Ireland, and sad days to Scotland, and after all there was to come good days. Mrs Maxwell, or Mary Elphiogson, the mother of the child, yet alive in Glasgow, told me this, That in the time he was asserting these things, she was thinking and wondering what ground on assurance he had for them, when he eried aloud shaking his hand at her, woman thou art
