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comes of the poor young kindly honeſt lad Renwick, that ſhames us all, in ſtaying and holding up his fainting mother's head, when of all the children ſhe has brought forth, there is none will avowedly take her by the hand, and the poor, cold hungry lads upon the hills? For the honour of thine own cauſe, let them not ſtarve; thou cauſed a ravenous bird, greedy of fleſh itſelf, to feed Elijah; and thou fed thy people in the wilderneſs with angels' food; and bleſſed a few loaves and ſmall fiſhes, and made them ſufficient for many; and had experience of want, wearineſs, cold and hunger, and enemies daily hunting for thy life, while in the world: look to them, and provide for them. We will get the black ſtone for leaving him and them. The Waiters being advertiſed of the bark being in that place, they and other people came upon them, which obliged them that were to come off, to ſecure the Waiters and people altogether, for fear of the garriſon of Carrickfergus apprehending them, being near to it, which obliged them to come off immediately, however it might be with them. After that he and 26 of our Scots ſufferers came aboard, he ſtood on the deck and prayed, there being not the leaſt wind, where he made a rehearſal of times and places, when and where the Lord had heard and anſwered them in the day of their diſtreſs, and now they were in a great ſtrait. Waving his hand to the weſt, from whence he deſired the wind, he ſaid, Lord give us a loof-full of wind: Fill the ſails, Lord, and give us a freſh gale, and let us have a ſwift paſſage over to the bloody land, come of us what will. John Muirhead, Robert Wark, and others who were preſent, told me, that when he began to pray, the ſails were all hanging ſtraight down; but ere he ended, they were all like blown bladders. They put out the waiters and other people, and got a very ſwift and ſafe paſſage. The 26 Scots ſufferers that were with him, having provided themſelves with arms, and being deſigned to return to Scotland, there being then ſuch a noiſe of killing; and indeed the din
