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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 thee, leſt I confound thee before them. I do not ſay as before, a ſacrifice in Bozrab, but I ſay a ſacrifice in thee, wretched Scotland! for I will dye the ground with blood from Gath-hill, to Irvine-water, for I will purge my church of popery and prelacy, and all other errors which are not according to the true principles of the church: for I will bring a ſmall army with a few miniſters of the principles of the mountain-men ſome time ago 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 laid before me, was, becauſe of the ſore rebuke I had for neglecting it. I apprehended I heard two men coming by the houſe, the one ſaying to the other, I have an old blind man in this houſe I muſt ſpeak to him before I go any further: and turning myſelf upon my bed, I ſaw a young man in bright clothing, who ſaid to me, What I have laid before thee deny it not, but maintain it, and what thou haſt not ſpoken, ſpeak, and what other things I lay before thee conceal them not, whether they hear or whither they forbear; they ſhall know that I have laid thee there for that end, and thou ſhalt not want a reward, for I never bad any man ſerve me for nothing; and if thou diſobey my commiſſion, I will fill thy bed with a ſulphureous ſmoke, that none ſhall be able to come near thee, and leſt thou be diſcouraged about where the ſmoke ſhall come from I will open the mouth of the bottomleſs pit, the habitation of thoſe that diſobey my commands, and let thee ſee what ſmoke cometh out of it; upon which I was affrighted, that I came under a ſolemn promiſe that what he would keep upon my memory I ſhould not conceal it tho' it coſt me my life: but it was ſaid unto me, What thou doſt not remember I will not charge thee for it. I anſwered, I wanted health, I wanted ſight, and ſo was unfit to publiſh it, to which it was anſwered, I ſent them to thy bed-ſtock to receive what thou had to ſay to them, but thon did not ſpeak but took other obligations that they ſhould not ſpeak what thou told them before.
18. Jan. 12, 1730. Being awaked, it was said to me,
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