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Viſions, Diſcoveries, Warnings and Judgements, &c.
In a dream, being ſtanding as I thought upon the braes of Ayr, I went to a little height near the town, and looking about to the city, I obſerved two coaches all black, going up the river ſide towards the ſouth, in ſuch a quick motion, as if they had not touched the ground, and as I looked after them, there came one to me, and aſked me, What I looked upon? I anſwered, Two coaches, the which I never ſaw the blacker: He ſaid, I will tell thee what theſe are, It is the devils going to combine together to go to Rome, to make the Pope to ſend Antichriſt to Scotland, to bring on a ſtroke and get a fatal fall.
2. At another time I apprehended a great light, and in the light I ſaw before me in large letters, The Lord is about in plead a controverſy with Scotland, England, and Ireland for a deſpiſed and ſlighted Goſpel.
3. At another time being awake, but being incapable to know where I was, I apprehended by a viſion of light, that I was in the open fields ſitting by the highway ſide: and ſaw a company of men walking by me, and every one of them had in his right hand a large bloody napkin hanging down, upon which I perceived large letters, I aſked the meaning of that which I ſaw upon the corners of the napkin? I was anſwered, It was the names of the twelve apoſtles of the Lamb. And, looking after them, I ſaw them come to the gates of the city, and as they entered in, each one took a bloody clout out of his pocket, and threw it down at the threſhold of the door, with which they wiped their feet as they went in; then I aſked, what meaned the clouts? I was anſwered, It was the cuſtom in noblemen’s houſes to have old caſt clouts laid down at their doors to wipe their feet as they came in; for no unclean thing ſhall enter into the new Jeruſalem; and then, looking in at the gates of the city, I perceived a great number of people in a larger room than I can expreſs, having every one of them a bloody napkin in their hands.
4. After the ſame manner, I apprehended I was walking thro’ a little town, and ſaw, as it had been, a few
