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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 sheets will burn, and their swingle-trees will fall to the ground, the plowmen will lose their gripes of the plow, and the gadmen will throw away their gads; and then, O the yelling and shrieking that will be among all this cursed feed, 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.”
18. In the beginning of May 1685, he came to the house of John Brown and Marion Weir, whom he married before he went to Ireland, where he stayed all night; and in the morning, when he took farewell, he came out at the door saying to himself, "Poor woman, a fearful morning, (twice over) a dark misty morning." The next morning, between five and six o'clock, the said John Brown, having performed the worship of God in his family, was going, with a spade in his hand, to put some peat-ground in order; the mist being thick and dark, he knew not until cruel and bloody Claverhouse compassed him with three troops of horse, brought him to
