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41. In the same year 1685, he was preaching in the night-time in a barn at Carrick, on that text, Psal. lxviii. 1. "Let God arise! and let his enemies be scattered! Let them that hate him flee before him! As smoke is driven, so drive thou them! So insisting how the enemies and haters of God and goodness were tossed and driven as smoke or chaff by the wind of God's vengeance, while on earth; and that wind would blow them all to hell in the end. Stooping down, there being chaff among his feet, he took a handful of it, and said The Duke of York, and now King of Britain, a known enemy of God and goodness, it was by the vengeance of God that he ever got that name; but, as you see me throw away that chaff, so the wind of that vengeance shall blow and drive him off that throne; and he nor any of that name, shall ever come on it again.
42. About this time, preaching in Carrick, in the parish of Girvan, in the day-time, in the fields, David Mason, then a professor, came in haste, trampling on the people to be near him; he said, There comes the devil's rattling-bag, we do not want him here. After this, the eaid David became officer in that bounds, and an informer, running thro' rattling his bag, and summoning the people to their unhappy courts, for their non conformity for that, he and his, got the name of the devil's rattle bag to this day. Since the Revolution, he complained to his minister, that he and his got that name; the minister said, Ye well deserve it, and he was an honest man that gave it you; you and your's must enjoy it, there is no help for it.
43. A little before his death, he was in Auchincloich, where he was born, in the house of John Richman, there being two beds in the room, one for him, and one for Andrew ———, who dwelt in and about the New-Milns; when Andrew was going to his bed, he heard him very importunate with the Lord, to have pity upon the West
