1717. MR THONLAS BOSTON. 267 himMr James Webffer getting it, was taken therewith ; and afterward, Mr Drummond himfelf being hardly allowed time to read it through, it came into the hands of Mr James Hog mini- ffer Of Carnock; and in end was reprinted in the year 171e, with a preface by the Paid Mr Hog, dated at. Carnock, Dec. 3. 1717. The mentioning of that book in the faid converfation, I had quite forgot ; and that thefe things followed thereupon, I did not at all know, till about .halfa fcore of years after this, that Mr Wilfon my friend, having got the account from Mr Drummond occafionally, did .. relate it to me. But the publifh- ing of that then obfcure book, at that time, having been fo re- markable in its confequences, and this to the fignal adv' ntage of the truth of the gofpel in this church, I could not but rejoice from my heart in that relation, reckoning it a great honour the 'Lord had put upon me, that by fuch a beautiful fiep of provi- denceI had been made the remote occafion thereof. At this time my daughter Alifon, having a trouble in her nofe, got by a fall when a child, for which, of a confiderable time that feafon, we had, by advice of a furgeon, waffled it by the help of a fyringe ; I, in the time of the affembly, having been advifed by my wife that the trouble had grown worge, confulted two, furgeons about it. And they, apprehending danger, moved that the fhould be brought in to Edinburgh to them, for cure. So coming away, I left my fon John in the town indifpofed, and returned home, looking on myfelf as a. candle burning at both ends, confidering my-fon's cafe behind me, and my daughter',s before me ; but labouring to encourage myfelf in the Lord. On the 26th of May, I bad advice that my fon was Fick of the meafles. The 29th was prefixed for carrying,in Alifon, for the end forefaid : but the Lord mercifully broke that appointment, by my wife's becoming unfit for travel, the night before ; and on the day appointed there was an extraordinary fall of rain. Then that day eight days was prefixed for the effé& forefaid : but on the intervening Saturday, after force time fpent in prayer that morning, my wife and I fitting together in the garden, were furprifed to hear by the fervant, that fomething had fallen out of the child's note. The fame being taken up, and brought to us, was found to be a piece of the cartilage, and to finell very rank : but there was no rank fmell in the nofe any more, nor yet any wound ; but as the deliverance carne in an mitant, it was perfe& too, and mpff feafonable. My fon, having been tent for, came home in health on the Wednefdayafter; which was the day that had been determined for carrying in my daugh- ter. This was a furprifing deliverance iii a cafe appearing very 'hopelefs, and was wonderful in our eyes. O the wifdom and goodnefs that appeared in it, and in timing it and my wife's in- difpofition, and in making the rain to come on that day, where- by our purpofe was broken ! This was a molt fignal piece of
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