Patrick Walker

“ After this he longed to be out of Ireland, what through the fearful apprehensions of the dismal day of rebellion in Ireland that came upon it in four years thereafter, and that he might take part with the sufferers of Scotland. He came near the coast one morning; John Muirhead came to him lying within a hedge he sail, "Have ye any news John?" John said, 'There is great fear of the Irish rising." He said, "No no, John; the time of their arising is not yet; but they will rise, and dreadful will it be at last. ”

“ Shortly after that sad strock at Bothwel, he went to Ireland but did not stay long at that time; in his travels through Galloway, he came to a house and looking in the goodman's face, he said, 'They call you an honest man but if you be so. you look not like it, you will not long keep that name but will discover yourself to be what you are" And shortly after, he was made to flee for sheep-stealing. ”

“ This had an exact accomplishment 4 years thereafter And for the profanity of England the formality and security of Ireland, for the loathing and contempt of the gospel, covenant-breaking, and innocent blood shed in Scotland, none of these lands shall escape ere all be done. But notwithstanding of all this, I'll tell you good news, keep in mind this year, month, and day, and remember that I told you the enemies have got a shot beneath their right wing, and they may rise and fly like a shot bird but ere this day seven years, the strongest of them all shall fall. ”

“ He will not let one sentence fall to the ground, but they shall have a sad accomplishment, to the sad experience of any." In his prayer after sermon, he said, "Lord thou hast been both good and kind to auld Sandy, through a long tract of time, and gave him many years in thy service, which has been but so many months: but now he is tired of the world, and hath done all the good in it that he will do; let him win away with the honesty he has, for he will gather no more. ”

“ It is easy for Christ to be holden busy in dividing the fulness of his father's house to his poor friends: He delights not to keep mercy over night. Every day brings new mercies to the people of God: He is the easiest merchant ever the people of God yoked with: If ye be pleased with the wares, what of his graces makes best for your he and you will soon sort on the price, he will sell goods cheap, that ye may spier for his shop again ”

“ About this time there was an honest poor wife brought him and them some bread and milk: when seeking a blessing he said, "Now in this bloody land, this poor woman has endangered her life in bringing bread to support ours; we cannot pay her for it, but Lord, it is for thy sake the has brought it; there is no need that she should be a loser at thy hand, thou givest plenty of bread to many that are not so worthy of it; giving does not impoverish thee, and with-holding does not enrich thee: give the poor Wife twenty bannocks for these few." ”

“ Fifthly Many a conventicle has God had in thee O Scotland! but ere long, God will have a conventicle that will makc Scotland to tremble--Many a preaching has God wared on thee, but ere long, God's judgements shall be as frequent as these precious meetings were, wherein he set forth his faithful servants to give warning of the hazard of thy apostacy from God in breaking, burning and burying his covenant; persecuting, slighting, and contemning the gospel; shedding the precious blood of his saints and servants.--God sent forth a Welwood a King, a Cameron and a Cargil, and others to preach to thee ”

“ And ye are a vain man, James and many others, with your bits of paper and drops of blood, but when that day comes, there will be a bike of indulged, lukewarm ministers from Holland, England and Ireland, together with a bike of them at home, and some young things that know nothing; and they will all hive together in one General Assembly; and the red hands with blood a d the black hands of defection, will be taken by the hand, and the hand given them by our ministers ”

“ IN the year 1666 when the Lord's persecuted and oppresed people were gathered together for their own defence who were broken at Pentland-bills, he with Mr Welch and the laird of Glorover, in the parish of Balentrea, wire riding together in the same parish, and met upon the way a small party of the enemy's horse, and no eviting of them; the Laird fainted, fearing they would all be taken. Mr Peden seeing this, said, "Keep up your courage and confidence for God hath laid an arrest upon these men, that they shall not harm us." ”

“ Mrs Maxwel told me since, when last in Glasgow, that when the child was in her father's arms, Mr Peden said, "That child's coming here at this time, is a testimony against the unfaithfulness of the ministers of Ireland reland thinks that Carolina in America will be a refuge for them: but as the Lord lives. it shall be no shelter to them. And these of them, designing to go there at this time, many of them shall lose their lives. & the rest of them shall come home in great distress." And at that time, there were two ships setting out from Ireland to Carolina ”

“ Tomorrow he threshed victual with the lad, and the next night he spent the same way; the second day in the morning, the lad said to his mistress, this man sleeps none, but groans and prays all night; I get no sleep for him. He threshes very well, and is not sparing of himself, though I think he has not been used with it, for he can do nothing to the botteling and ordering of the barn and when I put the barn in order, he goes to such a place, and there he prays for the afflicted church of Scotland, and names so many people in the furnace. ”

“ After sermon, when marrying a pair of folks, when the man had the woman by the hand, he said, "Indeed man you have a bonny bride by the hand, I see a covetous devil in her; she is both a thief and a whore let her go, you will be ashamed of her." ”

“ Then he began and said, "Lord, it is thy enemies days, hour, and power; they may not be idle, but hast thou no other work for them but to send them alter us? Send them after them to whom thou wilt give strength to flee, for our strength is gone; twine then about the hill Lord, and cast the lap of thy cloak over auld Sandy, and their poor things, and save us this one time and we will keep it in rememberance, and tell it to the commedation of thy goodness, pity, and commpassion, what thou did for us at such a time," In the mean time, there was a dark cloud of mist came betwixt them. ”

“ New acquaintance with strange lords in the ready way to make a wound in grace's side, which will not heal in haste; the sore may close before the wound dry up for grace is a tender place, and is very easily distempered with the backslidings of our present time. And if the wheels of it be once broken with sin, all the money in the world will not make it go about, until it be put in Christ's hand. ”

“ There is an old Christian gentlewoman in Edinburgh, a daughter of the said lairds, who told me of late, that she had several times heard her father give an account of this. She also told me, that since Bothwel-bridge fight, she heard him preach in the fields in the foresaid parish; and a woman sitting before the tent, looking up to him, he said, "How have you the confidence to look up? look down to hell where you are going; the devil has a fast grip of you, & will not lose it." ”

“ In the beginning of August, before this, Kinstuir was relieved at Enterkin path, going from Dumfries to Edinburgh prisoner, when the news of it came to Ireland, our Scots sufferers their acquaintance were glad of the news especially that Kinstuir had escaped. He said, "What means all this Kingstuiring? There is some of them relieved there, that one of them is worth many of him; for all will be ashamed of gun ere all be done." Being in this strait, he said to Rober Wark. an old worthy Christian, worthy of credit. ”

“ The man keeping fast her hand, he said. "You will not take my advice, but it will tend to thy disgrace" After marriage, when praying he said, "Good Lord, many a plow hath been yoked on the back of the church in Scotland: Pagans yoked theirs, Antichrist yoked his, and Prelacy hers: and now the plagued Erastain indulged they have yoked theirs, and it ill becomes them; good Lord cut their sheets that the swingle trees may fall to to the ground." ”

“ Some time after examination, he was sent prisoner to the Bass where and at Edinburgh, he remained untill December 1668, that he was banished.
6. While prisoner at the Bass, one Sabbath-morning, being about the public worship of God, a young lass about 13 or 14 years of age, came to the chamber door mocking with a loud laughter: He said, "Poor thing, thou mocks and laughs at the worship of God, but ere long God shall write such a sudden surprising Judgement on thee, that shall stay they laughing, and thou shall not escape it." ”

“ Then upon the sixth, he was in that wood all day, and at night he came to the said Mr Vernor's house, where several of our Scots sufferers were; he said “Why are you so discouraged; I knew ye have got ill news of the dreadful murder of our friends in Scotland; but I will tell you good news, that unhappy treacherous, leacherous, man, who has made the Lord's people in Scotland, tremble these years bygone has got his last glut in a lordly dish from his brother, and he is lying with his tongue cold in his mouth. ”

“ In that short time he was in Ireland, the Governor required of all presbyterian ministers that were in Ireland that they should give it under their hand, that they had no accession to the late rebellion at Bothwel-bridge, in Scotland and that they did not approve of it: which the most part did, and sent Mr. Thomas Gowans a Scotsman and one Mr. Paton from the north of Ireland to Dublin to present it to the Lord lieutenant, the which, when Mr. Peden heard, he said, "Mr Gowans and his brother Mr. Paton are sent and gone the devil's errand, but God will arrest them by the gate." ”

“ Christ knows well whether heaping or straking agrees best with our narrow vessels, for both are alike to him: Sparing will not enrich him, nor will spending Improverish him. He thinks it ill won that is holden off his people. ”

“ He replied, 'There are more dark weary days to come yet, when your pulpits will be full of Presbyterian ministers, and it will turn that dark upon you that many shall not know what to do, whether to hear or forbear; and they shall then be reckoned happy that wan weel thro' at Pentland, Bothwel and Airdsmoss, and wan fairly off the stage and got Martyrdom for Christ: for the ministers will cut off many of the most zealous godly at the web's end; but I will be hid in a grave. They enquired what would become of the testimony of the church of Scotland ”

“ The safest way to shift the showers, is to hold out of God's gate, and keep within his doors, until the violance of the storm begin to ebb, which is not yet full tide. Christ deals tenderly with his young plants and waters them oft, lest they go back. Be painful and lose not life for the seeking. ”

“ He said, "O sirs! ye will have a dreadful day by the French Monzies, and a set of wicked men in these lands, who will take part with them! the west of Scotland will pay dear for it They will run thicker in the water of Ayr and Clyde, than ever the Highland-men did." I lay in that chamber about three years ago, and the said John Rickman and his wife told me that these were his words At other times to the same purpose saying. "O! the Monzies, the Monzies, will be through the breadth and the length of the south and the west of Scotland! ”

“ But ye that stand to the testimoney in that day, be not discouraged at the fewness of your number, when Christ comes to set up his work in Scotland, he will not want men anew to work for him: yea he will chap upor the greatest man in all Scotland, and he will be the greatest malignant in it, and he will say. ”

“ Accordingly very shortly thereafter he went to Edinburgh and took the black test. That night he lectur'd on the vii. of Amos."I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel" He cried out, "Oh! how few of the ministers of Scotland will now answer the plumb-line; Lord send us a Welwood, a Cargill, and a Cameron, and such as they, and make us quit of the rest." And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. ”

“ It this time it was seldom Mr Peden could be prevailed on to preach, frequently answering and advising fouk to pray meikle, saying "It was praying fouk that would win through the storm: they would get preaching both muckle and good, but not muckle good of it, until judgements be poured out, to make the land desolate." And at other times. "We needed not to look for a great or good day of the gospel, until the sword of the Frenches were amongst us to make a dreadful slaughter ”

“ And said, "The Lord rebuke give repentance and forgiveness to these ministers that persuaded these prisoners to take that bond." For their perishing by sea, was more moving and shocking to him than if some thousands of them had been slain in the field He was thereafter taken by Major Johnston, in Edinburgh, and detained prisoner in the Bass, where he died. As the interest of Christ lay near his heart through his life, amongst his last words lie said, "The Lord will defend his own cause. ”

“ Secondly, Many miles shall you travel, and shall see nothing but desolations and ruinous wastes in thee Scotland. Thirdly. The fertilest places in Scotland shall be as waste and desolate as the mountains. Forthly, The women with child shall be ript up and dashed to pieces. ”

“ And for your encouragement remember he sends none a warfare on their own charges. And blest is the man that gives Christ all his money. It will be best with you to block with him, when you want hand money. And the less yeu have, he has the more heart to trust to you. ”

“ David Cunningham, minister there, in the meeting house, on a Sabbath day, broke out in very great reflections on Mr Peden, and them who hard him; one Mr. Vernor one of Mr Cunningham's elders, was very much offended thereat, and told Mr Peden on Monday, what Mr Cunningham had said; Mr Peden walking in his garden, took a turn about and came back and charged him to go and tell Mr Cunningham from him, that before Saturday's night he should be as free of a meetinghouse as he was ”