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and cavet of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink; and when they come out of their holes, they shall not have freedom to walk, for stumbling on dead corpses.—4thly, A stone, cut out of a mountain, should come down, and God shall be avenged on the great ones of the earth, and the inhabitants of the land, for their wickedness; and then the church should come forth with a bonny bairn-time of young ones at her back. Giving them that for a sign, if he were but once buried, they might be in doubts; but if he were oftener buried than once, they might be persuaded that all he had said would come to pass.
20. Mr. Peden died January 28th, 1686, being past sixty years; and was buried in Lord Afflect's Isle. The enemies got notice of his death and burial, and sent a troop of dragoons, and lifted his corpse, and carried him to Camnock-gallows-foot, and buried him there (after being forty days in the grave) beside other martyrs. His friends thereafter laid a grave-stone above him, with this inscription,
Here lies
MR. ALEXANDER PEDEN,
A faithful Minister of the Gospel:Glenluce
Who departed this life January 28, 1686.
And was raised, after 6 weeks, out of his Grave
Add buried here out of contempt.
