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fear; their time is not yet; though Monmouth of Argyle be coming, they will work no deliverance.' At that time there was no report of their coming, for they came not for ten weeks thereafter. On the morning after they landed, he lectured before they parted, sitting upon a braeside, where he had awful threatenings against Scotland, saying, the time was coming that they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nithsdale, Ayr and Clydesdale, and did not see a reeking house, nor hear a cock crow.

28. When the day of his death drew near, and not being able to travel, he came to his brother's house in the parish of Sorn, where he was born. He caused by a cave with a saughen bush covering the mouth of it, near to his brother's house; and the enemies came and searched the house narrowly many times. In the time that he was in this cave, he said to some friends, 1. That God shall make Scotland a desolation. 2. There shall be a remnant in the land, whom God should spare and hide. 3. They should lie in holes and caves of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink: And when they come out of their holes, they shall not have freedom to walk for stumbling on the dead corpses. 4. A stone cut of a mountain, sbould come down, and God shall be avenged on the great ones of the earth, and the inhabitants of the land, for their wickedness, and then the Church should come forth with a bonny bairn (illegible text)me of young ones at her back. He wished that the Lord's people might lie hid in their caves, as if they were not in the world, for nothing would do it, until God appeared with his judgments, and they that wan