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Elijah, and then fed thy people in the wilderness ⟨with⟩ angels food, and blessed a few loaves and small fishes ⟨and⟩ made them sufficient for many, and had experience ⟨of⟩ want, weariness, cold and hunger, and enemies ⟨daily⟩ hunting for thy life while in the world; look to ⟨them⟩ and provide for them; we ll get the black-stone ⟨for⟩ leaving him and them.
The waiters being advertised of the bark being in that place, they and other peoplec me upon them, which obliged them that were to come off, to secure the ⟨waiters⟩ and p ople altogether for fear of the garrison of ⟨Craigfergus⟩ apprehending them, being near to it, which ⟨obliged⟩ them to come off immediately, however it might be with them, after that he and 26 of our Scots ⟨sufferers⟩ came aboard, he stood upon the deck and ⟨prayed⟩, being not the least wind, where he made a ⟨rehearsal⟩ of times and places, when and where the Lord had ⟨heard⟩ and answered them in the day of the r distress, and now they were in a great strait. Waving his hand to ⟨the⟩ west, from whence he desired the wind, said, Lord, ⟨give⟩ us a loof-full of wind; fill the sails, Lord, and give ⟨us a⟩ fresh gale, and let us have a swift passage over to the bloody land, come of us what will. John Muirhead, Robert Wark and others who were present told me that when he began to pray, the sails were all hanging straight down, but e'er he ended, they were all ⟨like⟩ blown bladders; they put out the waiters and other ⟨people⟩, and got a very swift and safe passage. The 26 ⟨Scots⟩ sufferers that were with him, having provided themselves with arms, and being designed to return to Scotland, being then such a noise of killing (and indeed ⟨the⟩ din was no greater than the deed) it being then ⟨in⟩ the heat of killing time, in the end of February 1685, ⟨when⟩ at exercise at night in the bark, he said, Lord, ⟨thou⟩ knowest thir lads are hot spirited, lay an arrest ⟨upon⟩ them that they may not appear; their time is not ⟨yet⟩, tho Monmouth and Argyll be coming, they'll work ⟨no⟩ deliverance. At that time there was no report of ⟨their⟩ coming, for they came not for ten weeks thereafter. In the morning after they landed, he lectured ⟨before⟩ they parted, sitting upon a brae side, where he had ⟨fearful⟩ threatnings against Scotland, saying The time was coming, that they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nith dale, Air, and Clyd dale, and not ⟨see⟩ a reeking house, nor hear a cock crow: and further said, That his soul trembled to think what would become ⟨of⟩ the indulged, backslidden and upsitten ministers of Scotland;
