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not send us away empty, for we are in a starving condition." He said, I cannot promise you; but if I can get anything, ye shall not want it." A little while thereafter he called, and said, "Let not these people away, for I will come to them shortly." Which he did, & preached upon that text, The day being far spent, they constrained him to tarry all night. Where he broke out in strange raptures, expressing his fears of the Lord’s departure from these lands. He said. “England for superstition and profanity Ireland for security and formality, great shall thy stroke be! For in a few years, ye may travel forty miles in Ireland, and not get a light to your pipe!" Which came to pass four years thereafter, in the last rebellion. He said also, "O Scotland! many, long & great shall thy judgements be, of all kinds, especially the West & South, for loathing & contempt of the gospel, covenant-breaking burning & burying, & shedding of innocent, precious, dear blood. O! all ye that can pray tell all the Lord’s people to try by mourning and prayer to teagle him. O! see if ye can teagle, him, teagle him, teagle him, especially in Scotland; for we fear he will soon depart from it." When ended, he said, "Take ye that among you. & make a good use of it; for I have gotten it new & fresh out of heaven, having nothing of it this morning." The forsaid John Muirhead, & the said old woman, & others, told me, they were never witnesses to such a day, for many tears, both from preacher and hearers.
20. After this, this old woman longed to be home to Scotland, her husband (whose name was Paton) being in danger and hearing of such a killing in Scotland, being 1685 one of the bloody years, upon scaffolds and in the fields (& indeed the din was no greater than the deed) a bark being to go off with passengers, she resolving to go along when to take her leave of Mr. Peden, & found him in a wood with John Muirhead, & others of our Scots sufferers. She told him her design & he mused a little and then said, "Go not away till I speak
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