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They said, Poor man, you deserve encouragement for your virtue; be not afraid of your house, we will order two soldiers to stand at your door, that no man enter to wrong you. Which they did.
24 He lying sick about the same time, his landlord was afraid to keep him in his house. The enemy being in search of hiding people, he was obliged to make a bed for him among the standing corn; at which time there was a great rising of the water, but not one drop to be observed within ten foot of his bed.
25. About this time he came to Garfield, in the parish of Mauchlin, to the house of Matthew Hog, a smith. He went to his barn, but thought himself not safe, foot and horse of the enemy being searching for wanderers, as they were then called. He desired the favour of his loft, which Matthew refused: He said, Well, well, poor man, you will not let me have the shelter of your roof; but that house shall be your judgment and ruin. Some time after, the gavel of that house fell, and killed both him and his son! Their bodies were severely crushed.
26. About the same time, he came to Andrew Normand's house, in the parish of Alloway, shire of Ayr, being to preach at night in his barn. After he came in, he halted a little, leaning on a chair-back, with his face covered. When he lif ed up his head, he said, They are in this house that I have not one word of salvation unto! He halted a little again, saying, This is strange that the devil will not go out, that we may begin our work! Then there was a woman went out, ill looked upon for a witch. John Muirhead (formerly mentioned) told me, that when he came from Ireland to Galloway, he was at family-worship, and giving some notes upon the scripture read, there was a very ill-looking man came in, and sat down within the door. He halted and said, There is some
