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Viſions, Warnings, and Judgements

15. It was ſaid before me, that the Lord was about to purſue the blood of his ſervants, from the year 1961 to this day, and nothing will purge blood but blood, and what it is accompliſhed it will be ſaid as the queen of Sheba ſays to Solomon, that the one half was not told o: what is had found. For I have two ſwords drawn, that of foreign and that of an inteſtine enemy, and if ye find a favour it will be at the hand of the foreign enemy.

16. At another time I was awakened with a cry ſaying this is a ſecond tine I have come unto thee, will warning, but thou regardeſt more the town talk of the country than my warnings, but I will make thee an iron pillar and a brazen wall againſt this generation; ſpeak therefore that I command there, lest I confound the before them. I do not ſay as before, a ſacrifice in Bora but I ſay a ſacrifice in thee, wretched Scotland? for I would dye the ground with blood from Glasgow, to Irvine whither, for I will purge my church of popery, and prelay and all other errors, which are not according to the three principles of the church; for I will bring a ſmall arm with a few miniſters of the principles of the mountain me ſometime age nicknamed whigs, and they ſhall be the true ſeed of the church.

17 The reaſon why I was deſirous to acquaint others with what was ſaid before me, was becauſe of the fore rebuke I had for neglecting it. I apprehended I heard two men coming by the houſe, the one ſaying to the other, have an old blind man in this houſe, I mult ſpeak to him before I go any further; and turning myſelf on my bed, ſaw a young man in bright clothing, who ſaid to me, what I have ſaid before thee deny it not, but maintain it, and what thou halt not ſpoken, ſpeak, and what other thing I ſay before thee conceal them not, whether they hear or whether they forbear; they ſhall know that I have ſaid the there for that end, and thou shalt not want a reward, for I never bade any man ſerve me for nothing, and if thou diſobey my commiſſian, I will fill thy bed with a ſulphurous ſmoke, that none ſhall be able to come near thee, and left thou be diſcouraged about where the ſmoke ſhall come from, I will open the mouth of the bottomless pit, the