the morning alone, but when he saw the people passing on, he called to some of them, and inquired 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 sententions, 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 messenger to carry the message the prophet said, "Here am I, send me:" Tis 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 errand that God sent him, it would be to denounce judgements, upon a people, especially spiritual: but the hand of God was here: And, when he got his commission to preach to that people, and they grew more and more deaf and blind, he cried out, "How long!" And the answer was returned, "Until the city be without inhabitants, and the land utterly desolate" After he instilled a little in explaining these words, he said, groaning deeply, If he knew any thing of the mind of God, this is the commission that we are getting, and the commission that ministers will get to preach the generation more and more deaf and blind. And preach who will, and pray who will, this deafness and this blindness shall remain until many habitable places of Scotland be as waste and desolate as these mountains, (looking to them with a very weary countenance) But remember I am setting no time to this, we know not what spirits we are of; "a thousand years appear in his sight as one day," and a delayed thing was never forgot nor forgiven; and the longer delayed, the sorer when it comes. It will be the midnight cry, "the foolish sound asteed,” and the wife slumbering, and will come upon you as a thunder-clap. He went on to the following verse, "Yet in it will be a tenth, who shall be as the Oak, which hath the
