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contrary to my commands every way, that I am provoked even by their buying and ſelling, for which I have two rods, the rod of mine anger, and the rod of my jealouſy, wherewith I will even purſue them to the wilderneſs of Zion and there will I let them ſee the want of bread and water.
22. Another time being awake, there was a voice ſpoke to me, ſaying, That the iſle betwixt Kintyre and Carrick, which ſhould occaſion great blood both in the eaſt and weſt of Scotland and particularly in the ſouth of Carrick; then I perceived four ſhips which received a commiſſion to come to Lochkillicran, called the ſhips of Tarſhiſh, which was to raze this place by burning houſes, which ſhould make the inhabitants to flee to the mountains, they that take hold of me by prayer for their refuge, will be ſafe; but thoſe that take not hold of me for their ſhelter, though the common enemy ſhould not purſue them, yet they ſhall not eſcape my judgments which I will inflict upon them, whether by peſtilence or any other ſtroke; for there are many ſhips gathered hither, ſome for plunder, ſome for accompliſhing the ſtroke, yet they ſhall be all broken and ſcattered by very ſmall means, particularly I apprehended one ſmall ſhip, which fought a great parcel of theſe ſhips.
23. In the ſame month, as I was ſitting in my bed, I ſaw as it had been the shape of an ax, laid before me in the bed all crushed together into one lump, and the houſſel of it out of all shape, and while I looked upon it, it was ſaid unto me, I will shew thee the meaning, This is the king of France his armies which shall be made that they shall neither cut nor fell in the time when he hath moſt ado with them, a little thereafter in the morning in a ſurprizing manner, it was ſaid to me, I have got more loſs in my church by the king of France than by any prince in Europe, for he hath brought my church in that land to a very ſmall remnant, (if any,) for which I will make him as the top of a rock, that hath neither graſs nor earth.
24. Being aſleep, I apprehended I ſaw a man, as I was walking in the fields, coming to me, I asked him, What he had in his hand? he anſwered, it is a crown, I have often made offer of it to thec and thou refuſed it; I ſaid, I do not deſire a crown, neither would take it, he replied, Go on in revealing what I have laid before thee, and thou shalt not want thy reward: but if thou refuſe to declarewhat
