14
lose their gripes of the plow, and the gadmen will throw away there gads and then, O the yelling and shrieking that will be among all this cursed seed, clapping their hands, and crying to the hills and mountains to cover them from the face of the Lamb, and of him that sits upon the throne, for their hatred of him and malice at his people."
After sermon, when marrying a pair of folks, when the man had the woman by the hand, he said, "Indeed man you have a bonny bride by the hand, I see a covetous devil in her; she is both a thief and a whore let her go, you will be ashamed of her." The man keeping fast her hand, he said. "You will not take my advice, but it will tend to thy disgrace" After marriage, when praying he said, "Good Lord, many a plow hath been yoked on the back of the church in Scotland: Pagans yoked theirs, Antichrist yoked his, and Prelacy hers: and now the plagued Erastain indulged they have yoked theirs, and it ill becomes them; good Lord cut their sheets that the swingle trees may fall to to the ground." Ensign John Kirkland was witness to this sermon and marriage, he was my dear acquaintance, who told me several times of this, and more of that sermon
16 About the same time, he was marrying two pair of folks, he said to the one, 'Stand by, I will not marry you this day." The bridegroom was anxious to know the reason, after enquiring privately, he said "You will thank me for this afterwards, and think yourself well quat of her, for she is with child to another wife's husband: which was the matter of fact, as time afterwards discovered.
17. Shortly after that sad strock at Bothwel, he went to Ireland but did not stay long at that time; in his travels through Galloway, he came
