ed them in
the day of their distress, and now they were in a great strait. Waving
his hand to the west (from whence he desired the wind) he said, Lord,
give us a loof-full of wind; fill the sails, Lord, and give us a fresh
gale, and let us have a swift and safe passage over to the bloody land,
come of us what will. When he began to pray, the sails were hanging all
straight down, but ere he ended they were all blown full, and they got a
very swift and safe passage over. In the morning, after they landed, he
lectured ere they parted on a brae side; in which he had some awful
threatening against Scotland, saying, The time was coming, that they
might travel many miles in Galloway, Nithsdale, Ayr and Clydesdale, and
not see a reeking house or hear a cock crow; and further added, My soul
trembles to think what will become of the indulged, backslidden and
upsitten ministers of Scotland; as the Lord lives, none of them shall
ever be honoured to put a tight pin in the Lord's tabernacle nor assert
Christ's kingly prerogative as Head and King of his church.

After his arrival in Scotland, in the beginning of the year 1683, he met
with several remarkable deliverances from the enemy. One time fleeing
from them on horseback, he was obliged to ride a water where he was in
eminent danger. After he got out, he cried, Lads, do not follow me, for
I assure you, ye want my boat, and so will drown; and consider where
your landing will be, &c.--which affrighted them from entering the
water. At another time, being also hard pursued, he was forced to take a
bog and a moss before him. One of the dragoons, being more forward than
the rest, run himself into that dangerous bog, where he and the horse
were never seen more.

About this time he preached one Sabbath night in a sheep-house (the
hazard of the time affording no better). That night he lectured upon
Amos vii. 8. _And I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people the
house of Israel,_ &c. On this lecture he said, I'll tell you good
news--Our Lord will take a feather out of Antichrist's wing, which shall
bring down the duke of York, and banish him out of these kingdoms----And
there shall never a man of the house of Stuart sit upon the throne of
Britain after the duke of York, whose reign is now short; for their
lechery, treachery, tyranny, and shedding the precious blood of the
Lord's people.--But oh! black, black! will the days be that will come
upon Ireland! that they shall travel fort