habitation of thoſe that diſobey my commands, and let thee ſee what ſmoke cometh out of it; upon which I was affrighted, that I came under a ſolemn promiſe that what he would keep upon my memory I ſhould not conceal it, though it coſt me my life: but it was ſaid unto me, what thou doſt not remember I will not charge thee for it. I anſwered, I wanted health, I wanted fight, and ſo was unfit to publiſh it, to which it was anſwered. I ſent them to thy bed ſtock to receive what thou had it to ſay to them, but thou didſt not ſpeak but took other obligations that they ſhould not ſpeak what thou told them before.
18. Jan. 12th 1730. Being awaked, it was ſaid to me,I am as a bear bereaved of her whelps, that can neither meet man nor beat but tear them in pieces, I had once a bonny bairn time of bairns in Scotland, which they bereaved me of, ſome of them they ſent to foreign lands and plantations, others they drowned in the ſea, others they killed in the fields upon gibbets and ſcaffolds, for which I will drive them out of their houſes as fheep are driven in a ſtormy day before the ſtorm, ſeeking for ſhelter, but find none. I will cauſe my mouth to go thro' this generation, as a ſtorm of ſnow goeth through a wood, where the higheſt trees and thicket branches, receive moſt of the ſtorm; I will leave their houſes without rib or roof, and their ſubſtance, as corn in the fields, that hath neither corn nor graſſ. And the ſame day, about twilight, there ſhined a great light about me, ſuch as I never ſaw before for brightnefs, which ſo overpowered me, that I knew not whether I was in the body or out of the body, and it was ſaid to me, I am a merciful God, and be that repenteth and ſleeth to me for mercy, by forſaken their ſins, the generation to come ſhall not remember that there was ſuch a generation in the place. I have a remnant in this place whom I will whip as a father doth his ſon that ſerveth him, I will not deal with this church as I have dealt with other churches, whom I lave left never to return again, as the ſeven churches of Aſia, for I have a remnant of men and women in this hand, ſuch as 1Ihave not found the parrellel of in any church beſide, which have taken faſt hold of me by their prayers of none.
