, but entered not into the
place where he lay. After a weary pilgrimage, within forty eight hours
he became an inhabitant of that land, where the weary are at rest, being
then past sixty years of age.

He was buried in the laird of Affleck's isle; but a troop of dragoons
came and lifted his corpse, and carried it[225] two miles, to Cumnock
gallows-foot (after he had been forty days in the grave) where he lies
buried beside other martyrs.

Thus died Mr. Alexander Peden so much famed for his singular piety, zeal
and faithfulness, and indefatigableness in the duty of prayer; but
especially who exceeded all we have heard of in latter times, for that
gift of foreseeing and foretelling future events, both with respect to
the church and nation of Scotland and Ireland, and particular persons
and families, several of which are already accomplished. A gentleman of
late, when speaking in his writings of Mr. Peden, says, Abundance of
this good man's predictions are well known to be already come to
pass[226]. And although these things are now made to stoop or yield to
the force of ridicule and the sarcasms of the profane, and fashions of
an atheistical age and generation, yet we must believe and conclude with
the Spirit of God, that the secrets of the Lord both have been, are, and
will be with them who fear his name.

There are some few of Mr. Peden's sermons in print, especially two
preached at Glenluce _anno_ 1682. the one from Matth. xxi. 38. and the
other from Luke xxiv. 21.; which prophetical sermons, though in a homely
stile, are of a most zealous and spiritual strain; now re-printed in a
late collection of sermons. As for those papers handed about under Mr.
Peden's name, anent Mr. James Renwick and his followers, they are, with
good reason, looked upon as altogether spurious.

_The Life of Mr. JOHN BLACKADDER._

Mr. John Blackadder was a lineal descendent, and the only representative
of the house of Tullialen. After he had undergone his courses of
classical learning, he was ordained minister of the gospel at Traquair
near Dumfries, where he continued faithfully to discharge the trust
committed unto his charge, until he was with many others of his faithful
brethren thrust out by that act commonly called, the drunken act of
Glasgow, in the year 1662.--At that time, a party came from Dumfries to
seize him; but he was gone out of the way. But his wife and children (to
whom the soldiers were extremely rude) were force