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there was none of them either wounded or killed, save one man, and he was shot dead. Another time he was preaching, and gave a very large offer of Christ, in the Gospel terms; an old woman being sitting before him, he laid his hands on each side of her head, and rocked her from side to side, and said, Thou witch wife, thou witch-wife, thou witch-wife; I offer Christ to thee. Quit the devil’s service, thou hast a bad master, thou wilt never make thy plack a bawbee of him; but if thou wilt break off and renounce the devil’s service, I promise thee, in my master’s name, that he will give thee salvation. After this, there was a discernible change in her practice; and when she was a-dying, she confessed that she was either engaged in the devil's service, or was engaging: and expressed her thankfulness that she had the happiness of hearing Mr Peden at that time.
Since the publishing of the former passages of Mr Peden’s life and death, I received two letters from Sir Alex. Gordon of Earlston, in the year 1725 and 1726, since gone to his grave—shewing that he was not only fully satisfied, but much refreshed with the passages, requesting me not to delay the publishing of all that I proposed, and that he longed to see him before he went off the stage; knowing that my day is far spent, being long since I was his fellow-prisoner, and taught him, from my own experience, how to manage the great weight of irons that was upon his legs; and wishing that all the Lord's people, who have any zeal for the sworn to and sealed testimony, and savoury remembrance of the names of Christ’s slain witnesses for the same, and of the Lord’s signal manifestations of his faithfulness and all sufficiency to them in their life and death, would give me all encouragement in such a piece of good and great regeneration work, which may be useful and edifying when he and I would be mouldering in the dust.
