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it is certain they were safely set free, without any imposition of bonds or oaths; and their friends at London, and on their way homewards through England, shewed much kindness unto them.
12. That dismal day, June 22d. 1679, at Bothwel-bridge, that the Lord’s people fell, and fled before the enemy, he was forty miles distant, near the border, and kept himself retired until the middle of the day, that some friends said to him, "Sir the people are waiting for sermon." He said, "Let the people go to their prayers; for me, I neither can nor will preach any this day; for our friends are fallen and fled before the enemy at Hamilton; and they are hapging and hashing them down, and their blood is running like water."
13 After this, he was preaching in Galloway: In the afternoon he prayed earnestly for the prisoners taken at and about Bothwel; but in the afternoon, when he began to pray for them, he halted and said, "Our friends at Edinburgh, the prisoners have done somewhat to save their lives that shall not do them any good; for the sea billows shall be many of their winding-sheets; and the few of them that escape, shall not be useful to God in their generation." Which was
