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they got a drink in the time of it. The said Hugh, a very wicked man, both in principle and practice, broke ou in a railing against sufferers, particularly against Mr Cameron: Mr Peden being in another room overhearing all, was so grieved, that he came to the chamber-door, and said to the said Hugh, “Sir, hold your peace, ere twelve o'clock thou shall know what a man Mr Cameron was; God shall punish that blasphemous sort of and cursed tongue of yours, in such a manner as shall be astonishing to all that see you, and shall set you up as a beacon to all railing Rabshakehs.” Robert Brown, knowing Mr Peden, hasted to his horse, being persuaded Mr Peden’s words would not fall to the ground, and fearing some mischief might befall him for being in the said Hugh’s company, he rode hard home. Robert went to his own house, and Hugh to the Earl's house; and casting off his boots, he was struck with such a sickness and pain through his body, with his mouth so wide, and his tongue hanging so far out in a fearful manner, that they sent for the said Robert; being used to take blood, he got some blood of him, but all in vain, for he died before midnight. The said Robert, an old man, told me this passage when we were both in prison together.
17. In the year 1682, he was in Kyle, and preached upon that text. The plowers plowed upon my back, and drew long their furrows; where he said, “Would ye know who first yoked this plow! It was cursed Cain, vhen he drew his furrows so long and also deep, that he let out the heart-blood of his brother Abel; and his cursed seed has, and will gang, summer and winter, frost and fresh weather, till the world’s end; and at the sound of the last trumpet, when all are in a flame their theets will burn, and their swingletrees will fall to the ground; the plowmen will lose their gripes of the
