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from the 7th verſe to the end; when ending, he repeated the 7th verſe,

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt
from trouble keep me free:
Thou, with ſongs of deliverance,
about ſhalt compaſs me.


Saying, "Theſe and the following are ſweet lines, which I got at the burn-ſide this morning, and we'll get more to-morrow, and ſo we'll get daily proviſion: He was never behind with any that put their truſt in him; and he will not be in cur common, nor none who needily depends on him, and ſo we will go on in his ſtrength, making mention of his righteouſneſs, and of his only." The foreſaid James Cubiſon went eight miles with him; when he took good night, he ſaid, "Sir, I think I'll never ſee you again." He ſaid, "James, you and I will never meet again in time." And two ſeveral times he went to Ireland before, when they parted, he told them that they would meet again. The ſaid James, John Muirhead, and others of our ſufferers, who were preſent, gave me theſe accounts.

28. Shortly after they landed from Ireland in Galloway, the enemy got notice, they being then in garriſons, foot and horſe, and it being killing-time, the alarm came to them in a morning, that foot and horſe were coming upon them, the foreſaid John Muirhead being truck 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

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