he would keep upon my memory I could not conceal, tho’ it coſt me my life: But it was ſaid unto me, What thou doſt not remember I will not charge thee for. I anſwered, I wanted health, I wanted ſight, and ſo was unfit to publiſh it, to which it was anſwered, I ſent them to thy bed-ſtock, to receive what thou hadſt 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. 12. 1730. Being awaked, it was ſaid to me, I am as a bear bereaved of her whelps, that can neither meet man nor beaſt 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 ſheep 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 thro’ a wood, where the higheſt trees and thickeſt 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 chaff. And the ſame day about twilight, their ſhined in a great light about me, ſuch as I never ſaw before for brightneſs, which ſo overpoured me, that I knew not whether in the body or out of the body, and it was ſaid to me, I am a merciful God, and he that repenteth and fleeth to me will find a merciful God, and ſuch as will not flee to me for mercy, by forſaking 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 have left never to return again, as the ſeven churches of Αſia, for I have a remnant of men and women in this land, ſuch as I have not found the parallel of in any church beſide, which have taken faſt hold of me by their prayers of faith, they have faſtened their grips ſo, that they will not let me go, for the cry of their prayers hath come up before me, and outreached the cry of their ſins, for which
