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keeper said, Will you run for it? He said, No. no: I have done no ill thing, that needs make me either afraid or ashamed. Well, said the keeper, go home to your bed, and I will send for you in the morning. When he went home, it was his ordinary in family, worship to sing these lines in the 109th Psalm,
Few be his days, and in his room
he charge another take, &c.
When ended, he said to his wife, I never found such a gale upon thy 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 he troubled for the expence he had been at in getting that caption. He died under great horror of conscience. Notwithstanding he 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 Miller 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 spoke by me.
4. In their voyage to London, they had opportunity to command the ship, and make their escape, but would not adventure upon it without his advice. He said, Let alone, the Lord will set us all at liberty in a way more for his own glory and our safety.
