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When ended, he said to his wife, I never found such a gale upon my spirit as in the singing of these lines. She said it was so with her also. Well, said he, let us commit our case and cause to the Lord, and wait on him, and we shall know the meaning of this afterwards. The unhappy man fell immediately ill, and said, that all this mischief had come upon him, for what he had done against John Goodale; and caused write, and signed a discharge and sent it to the said John, that he might not be troubled for the expence he had been at in the getting of that caption. He died under great horror of conscience! Notwithstanding John was detained three years prisoner, working at his employment in the Tolbooth, in the day-time, and went home to his bed at night. The said John and his wife returned to Scotland, and died since the Revolution. His wife when dying at Leith gave this relation.
3. When Mr. Peden was prisoner in Edinburgh, under sentence of banishment, James Millar, merchant in Kirkcaldy, was under the same sentence, and his wife came to visit him: Mr. Peden said to her, It is no wonder you be troubled with your husband's going to the plantations; but if any of us go there at this time, the Lord never spake by me.
4. In their voyage to London, they had the opportunity to command the Ship and make their escape, but would not adventure upon it without his advice. He said, Let alone, for the Lord will set us all at liberty in a way more for his own glory and our safety.
5. About this time, on their voyage, on the Sabbath the prisoners pressed him to preach, the wind blowing very hard: in that Sermon he said, Up your hearts lads and be not discouraged, for this man thought he had got a prize when he got the gift of us from the wicked bloody Council; but in a few days he shall be as glad to be quit
