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IN a dream, being ſtanding as I thought, upon the braes of Ayr, I went to a little height near the town, and looking about to the city, I obſerved two coaches all black, going up the river ſide towards the ſouth, in ſuch quick motion, as if they had not touched the ground, and as I looked after them, there came one to me, and aſked me, What I looked upon? I anſwered, Two coaches, the which I never ſaw the blacker: He ſaid, I will tell thee what theſe are, It is the devils going to combine together to go to Rome, to make the Pope to ſend Antichriſt to Scotland, to bring on a ſtroke and get a fatal fall.
2. At another time I apprehended a great light, and in the light I ſaw before me in large letters, The Lord is about to plead a controverſy with Scotland, England and Ireland for a deſpiſed and ſlighted Goſpel.
3. At another time being awake, but being incapable to know where I was, I apprehended by a viſion of light, that I was in the open fields ſitting by an high-way ſide; and ſaw a company of men walking by me, and every one of them had in their right hand a large bloody napkin hanging down, upon which I perceived large letters, I aſked the meaning of that which I ſaw upon the corners of the napkin? It was anſwered, It was the names of the twelve apoſtles of the Lamb. And looking after them I ſaw them come to the gates of a city, and as they entered in, each one took a bloody clout out of his pocket, and threw it down at the threſhold of the door, with which they wiped their feet as they went in; then I aſked, What meaned the clouts? It was anſwered, It was the cuſtom in noblemen's houſes to have old caſt clouts laid down at their doors to wipe their feet as they came in: for no unclean thing ſhall enter into the new Jeruſalem; and then looking in at the gates of the city, I perceived a great number of people in a larger room than I can ex-
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