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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