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to them in a morning, that foot and horſe were coming upon them, the foreſaid John Muirhead being ſtruck with a violent pain in his forehead, they ſtarted up to run for it: He ſaid, Stay, ſtay, lads! let us pray for old John ere we go. He ſtood up and ſaid, Lord, we hear tell that thy enemies and ours are coming upon us, and thou haſt laid thy hand of affliction on old John; have pity upon him, for thy enemies will have none; his blood will run where he lies! ſpare him at this time, we know not if he be ready to die. And, as John told he, with tears in his eyes, the pain in his head, and the indiſpoſition of his body quite left him, and he ſtarted up and ran with the reſt. The enemies ſeeing them, purſued them hard, ſometimes the horſe, and ſometimes the foot being near them; moſſy, boggiſh ground did caſt about the horſes. After they had run ſome conſiderable way, they got upon a little height between the enemy and them; Mr. Peden ſtood ſtill and ſaid, Let us pray here; for, if the Lord hear not our prayers, and ſave us, we are dead men, and our blood will run like water: If we die, let the enemy kill us, let our blood fill up their cup, that the day of vengeance that is coming on them may be haſtened. Then he began, and ſaid, Lord, it is thy enemies' day, hour and power; they may not be idle, but haſt thou no other work for them, but to ſend them after us? Send them after them, to whom thou wilt give ſtrength to flee, for our ſtrength is gone; twine them about the hill, Lord, and caſt the lap of thy cloak over auld Sandy, and thir poor things, and ſave us this one time, and we will keep it in remembrance, and tell it to the commendation of thy goodineſs, pity and compaſſion, what thou didſt for us at ſuch a time. In the mean time, there was a dark cloud of miſt came betwixt them. After prayer, he ordered two of them to give notice of the enemy's motion, and the reſt to go alone, and cry mightily to the Lord for deliverance. In the meantime that they were thus exerciſed, there came poſts to the enemy, for them to go and purſue after Mr. Renwick, and a great company with him. After the enemies were
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