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A memorable inſtance not to be forgot but be a memorial of my return to the poor church of Scotland, for my return ſhall yet be great in this land, for I will have no more ado with Antichriſt in my church, for I will give him a ſtroke, and the report thereof ſhall be heard through the whole world.
9. At another time as I was viewing the viſion of light, I perceived one coming down with a great ax in his right hand, and turning himſelf upon a ſtep, he ſet his one foot higher than the other, and the band with the ax on his right knee, and ſwore with an oath by him that liveth for ever and ever: yea, ere long Britain ſhall know what is my commiſſion with the ax: but let not that trouble thee, for thou ſhalt not fee it.
10. That at another time I heard at a great diſtance above me, as it had been one making a great moan, and another ſaying, What aileth thee child, to make ſuch a moan? The child ſaid, We will all be ruined, for our church is filled full of ſuperſtition and damnable hereſies; It was anſwered, That needs not trouble thee, thou haſt nothing to do with that, it lies at the door of miniſters, let them ſee to that; the child anſwered, We ſuſtain the pain and the loſs, for we will all be herried, for our church is full of thieves and robbers.
11. At another time, lying upon my bed waking, there appeared to me, the likeneſs of a woman with a ghoſtly countenance, which paſſed with a great motion by my bedſtock, to the other ſide of the houſe, and looked at me with an angry viſage, clapping her hands together, ſeveral times at me, and I overheard her, as talking with another and came over the ſame diſcourſe I had with another perſon that Thurſday before, and ſaid to the other, He hath made all the honeſt people that they cannot hear his name named, and others to mock and have him in deriſion, which will make him that he had better be off the would than upon it. Then one of them aſked me, What was that I had done? and repeated the former diſcourſes to me, and ſaid, Since thou haſt done ſo, I will learn thee a way to mend it, deny thou ſaid ſo, I anſwered, How can I do that? I have told it to ſome that will be believed, though I ſhould ſay to the contrary; but he ſtill continued with temptations and terrible threatnings to that purpoſe, till at laſt I was made tocry
