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am the father of that child, and I desired her to father it on Mr Peden, which has been a great trouble of conscience to me; and I could not get rest till I came home to declare it. However, it is certain, that after she was married, everything went cross to them; and they went from place to place, and were reduced to great poverty. At last she came to that same spot of ground where he stayed upwards of 24 hours, and made away with herself!
2. After this he was three years settled minister at New Glenluce in Galloway; and when he was obliged, by the violence and tyranny of that time, to leave that parish, he lectured upon Acts xx. 17, to the end, and preached upon the 31st verse in the forenoon, 'Therefore watch, and remember that for the space of three years I ceased not to warn every onc, night and day, with tears': Asserting that he had declared the whole counsel of God, and had kept nothing back, and protested that he was free of the blood of all souls. And, in the afternoon he preached on the 32d verse, 'And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are scantified.' Which was a weeping day in that kirk; the greatest part could not contain themselves: He many times reqnested them to bc silent;
