the morning alone; but when he ſaw the people paſſing on, he called to ſome of them, and enquired where they were going, they told him. He ſaid, that's the lady's policy to get us at ſome diſtance from her houſe; but ſhe will be diſcovered.
He lectured that day upon the 6th of Iſaiah, upon which he had many ſententious ſayings, I remember, from that word, Whom ſhall I ſend? And who will go for us! He ſaid, To ſpeak with holy reverence, we ſee that the Trinity of Heaven may be at a ſtand, where to get a fit meſſenger to carry the meſſage; the prophet ſaid, Here am I, ſend me: 'Tis like if he had known what he was to do, he would not have been ſo forward: For, if an honeſt hearted miniſter might refuſe any errand that God ſent him, it would be to denounce judgements upon a people, eſpecially ſpiritual: But the hand of God was here: And, when he got his commiſſion to preach to that people, and they grew more and more deaf and blind, he cried out, How long! And the anſwer was returned, Until the city be without inhabitants, and the land utterly deſolate. After he inſiſted a little in explaining theſe words, he ſaid, groaning deeply, If he knew any thing of the mind of God, this is the commiſſion that we are getting, and the commiſſion that miniſters will get, to preach the generation more and more deaf and blind. And preach who will, and pray who will, this deafneſs and this blindneſs ſhall remain until many habitable places of Scotland, be as waſte and deſolate as theſe mountains, (looking to them with a very weary countenance.) But remember I am ſetting no time to this, we know not what ſpirits we are of; a thouſand years appear in his ſight as one day, and a delayed thing was neither forgot nor forgiven; and the longer delayed, the forer when it comes. It will be the midniglit cry, The fooliſh found aſleep, and the wife ſlumbering, and will come upon you as a thunder-clap. He went on to the following verſe, Yet in it will be a tenth, who shall be as the Oak, which hath
