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short in secret: and when they are, they will extend their voice, that others may hear them; which is expressly forbidden: When we enter into our closets, we may hear ourselves, but no other. If that loud way of praying in secret had been practised by our sufferers is throng prisons, especially in Dunnotar-Castle, there would have been a frightful confused noise amongst them and exposed them to the mockage of the world as mad men.
When he went from Loudoun hill, he passed through the shire of Air, Carrick, and into Gallloway, preaching, baptizing, and marrying, but staid a short time there.—When he left Galloway, he said. Farewel, Galloway, for I will never come back to thee again: Thou art now Galloway, but thou wilt become a Wallaway, and I fear other shires in the south and west of Scotland will be little better. Mr. Peden had the same expressions.
He came to Clydesdale, where he took most delight, and had greatest liberty in preaching and praying; and several other ministers at that time had the same. He designed to have preached at Tinto-hill but the Lady of St. John's Kirk got notice, and wrote to some public men that he was to preach at Home's Common, in the back of Coulter-heights: He was that night in John Liddle's, in Heldmire, near Tinto-hill: he went early in the Sabbath morning to it, thinking to spend the morning alone; but when he saw the people passing on, he called to some of them, and enquired where they were going? They told him; he said, That's the Lady's policy, to get us at some distance from her house; but she will be discovered.
He lectured that day upon the 6th of Isaiah; upon which he had many sententious sayings, I remember, from that word, Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? He said, To speak with holy reverence, we see that the Trinity of heaven may be at a stand, where to get a fit messedger to carry the message: The prophet said, Here am I, send me. It is like, if he had known what he was to do, he would not have been so forward: For, if an honest hearted minister might refuse any errandthat
