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I am as a bear bereaved of her whelps, that can neither meet man nor beaſt but tears 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 ſcaſſolds, for which I will drive them out of their houſes, as ſheep are driven in a ſtormy day before the ſtorm, ſeceing for ſhelter, but find none, I will cauſe my mouth to go through this generation as a ſtorm of ſnow goeth through 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 core nor chaff. Upon the ſame day about twilight, there ſhined a great light about me, ſuch as I never ſaw before for brightneſs, which ſo overpowered 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 end 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 Aſia, 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 faſtned their grips ſo that they will not let me go, for the cry of their prayers have come up before me, and outreacheth the cry of their ſins, for which I will make the voice of the prayers of my remnant to be heard in ſuch acclamations of joy as ſhall make the very earth rebound and echo, and the delivery ſo cloſe after the ſtroke, as can hardly be diſcovered, a ſimilie was given me, of two buſhes growing cloſe together, that the one could not be diſcerned from the other, until they were cut down and drawn aſunder.
19 Upon ſabbath about cock crowing, I was awakened out of ſleep with a ſharp rebuke, thus, How often ſhall I rebuke thee for concealing the deſolating ſtroke coming upon the land, which I laid before thee ſo often, for whichthou
