the Lord's sake, and then breathed weaker and weaker till he gave up
the ghost, and after he had seen the salvation of God he departed in
peace in the 64th year of his age.

Thus lived and died Mr. Fleming, after he had served his day and
generation. His works yet declare what for a man he was; for besides the
forenamed treatise, the confirming work of religion, his epistolary
discourse, and his well known book, the fulfilling of the scriptures; he
left a writing behind him under this title, A short index of some of the
great appearances of the Lord in the dispensations of his providence to
his poor servant, &c. And although the obscurity of these hints leaves
us in the dark, yet as they serve to shew forth his Master's particular
care over his servant, who was most industrious in observing the Lord's
special providences over others, and perhaps may give some further light
into the different transactions of his life, they are here inserted.

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"How near I was brought to death in my infancy, given over and esteemed
a burthen to my friends, so as my death was made desirable to them; I
being the refuse of my father's children, yet even I was then God's
choice, and in a most singular way restored. 2. That remarkable
deliverance, in receiving a blow by a club when a child, which was so
near my eye as endangered both my sight and life. 3. The strange and
extraordinary impression I had of an audible voice in the church at
night, when being a child I had got up to the pulpit, calling me to make
haste, &c. 4. That I, of all my father's sons, should be spared, when
the other three were so promising, and should thus come to be the only
male heir surviving of such a stock. 5. That solemn and memorable day of
communion at Gray-friar's in the entry of the year 1648, where I had so
extraordinary a sense of the Lord's presence, yea, whence I can date the
first sealing evidence of my conversion, now 40 years past. 6. The
Lord's gracious and signal preservation and deliverance given me at
Dumbar fight. 7. These solemn times and near approaches of the Lord to
my soul; the first at Elve when I went there, and the other a little
after my father's death in the high study. 8. The scripture Acts xii.
was given me to be my first text, and how I was unexpectedly and by
surprize engaged therein. 9. The great deliverances at sea going to
Dundee, the first time in company with the duke of Lauderdale, the
ot