preachers, and shorter preaching, fewer and shorter prayers among professors; they would not sleep and wake people, gasping and gollering, and few understanding what they are saying, as if they were to be heard for much speaking, or as if God could not or would not hear them without they cry loud, and loving to hear themselves speak, and others to admire and adore them: But these who are long and loud in public for ordinary, will be seldom and short in secret; and when they are, they will extend their voice that others may hear them; which is expresly 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 suffers in throng prisons, especially in Dunnotar castle, there would have been a frightful confused noise amongst them, to confuse one another, and to expose them to the mockage of the world as madmen. I am sure it was the only straitening thing to sufferers, especially when under sentence of death, and upon their dying days, when they could not get out their breath
When he went from Loudon-hill, he passed thro' the shire of Air, Garrick, and into Galloway, 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, a 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 Pinto-hill; he ⟨went⟩ early in the Sabbath morning to it; thinking to ⟨spend⟩
