the rebellion 1715, and since the stock-jobbing, a foolish haste to be rich hath made many poor; and many other ways and things, living above their stations and incomes, spending their money on gaming, wine and women, have brought it to pass. There are some sentences in the end of our national covenant, that may strike terror to the hearts of all ranks; such as, "We call the living God, the searcher of our hearts to witness, who knoweth this to be our sincere desire and unfeigned resolution, as we shall answer to Jesus Christ at the great day, and under the pains of God's everlasting wrath, and of infamy and loss of all honour and respect in this world," &c.
The next Sabbath after he went from the Benty-rig, he preached at Auchingilloch, in the south side of Clydesdale, and then returned to Clyde. The week before he was taken, he was in the Lee-wood, where he married Robert Marshall, of Starry-shaw, brother to the foresaid Thomas and John Marshall. After they were gone from him, Marion Cooper, spouse to John Weir, who dwelt in the Mains of Lee, two solid Christians and sufferers in that time, brought his dinner to him in the wood: In the time thereof he said, What induced Robert to marry this woman? this woman's ill will overcome his good, he will not keep this way long, his thriving days are done: which sadly came to pass in every jot. A little time thereafter he was taken and put in prison, fell in foul compliance with the enemies, went home and heard the curates, and other steps of detection, and became lightly esteemed This was the last marriage he performed, in which both he, Peden, Cameron and Renwick, took as little delight as in any piece ⟨of⟩ their ministerial work, although they would neither dissuade or refuse, having such a deep concern upon their spirit, and looking upon it as an evidence ⟨of⟩ unconcernedness with the many grievous things in that day, and of such a tendency to increase their afflictions: Some of them shortly thereafter were taken,
