nd to be happy, or get a
thorough deliverance, which will be more severe chastisement than any
other they have met with, or can come under, if once that were over.

After much wandering from place to place, through Kyle, Carrick and
Galloway (his death drawing near), he came to his brother's house, in
the parish of the Sorn, where he was born, where he caused dig a cave,
with a willow bush covering the mouth thereof, near to his brother's
house. The enemy got notice, and searched the house narrowly several
times, but him they found not. While in this cave, he said to some
friends[222], 1_st_, That God would make Scotland a desolation. 2_nd_,
There would be a remnant in the land, whom God would spare and hide,
3_dly_, They would be in holes and caves of the earth, and be supplied
with meat and drink; and when they came out of their holes, they would
not have freedom to walk for stumbling on dead corpses. And 4_thly_, A
stone cut out of the mountain would come down, and God would be avenged
on the great ones of the earth, and the inhabitants of the land for
their wickedness; and then the church would come forth with a bonny
bairn-time at her back of young ones; and he wished that the Lord's
people might be hid in their caves as if they were not in the world, for
nothing would do until God appeared with his judgments, &c.; and
withal gave them this sign, That if he be but once buried, they might be
in doubt, but if oftener than once, they might be persuaded that all he
had said would come to pass, and earnestly desired them to take his
corpse out to Airs-moss, and bury him beside Richie (meaning Mr. Richard
Cameron) that he might have rest in his grave, for he had got little
during his life. But he said, bury him where they would, he would be
lifted again; but the man that would first put hands to his corpse, four
things would befal him, 1_st_, He would get a great fall from a house.
2_dly_, He would fall in adultery. 3_dly_, In theft, and for that he
should leave the land. 4_thly_, Make a melancholy end abroad for murder.
All which came to pass. This man was one Murdoch, a mason to trade, but
then in the military service, being the very first man who put hands to
his corpse.

Mr. Peden had for some time been too credulous in believing the
obliquous misrepresentations of some false brethren concerning Mr. James
Renwick, whereby he was much alienated from him; which exceedingly
grieved Mr. Renwick, stumbled some of his fol