So MEMOIRS OP PERIOD fig, it carne t but the Lord was with mein the appearance we made, and that terror evanifhed at length ; fo that, to my own wonder, I was helped to fpeak without fear : " It (hall be given you in that hour what ye (hall fpeak," Matth. x. 19. F_xpertuscredo, I have learned to beware of men, and that all men are liars ; but God is a promife-keeping God. At the April fynod, Mr Wilton being in the chair, I was Tell alone to bear the (hock, and was run down at an unufual rate about a faft ; which being appointed by the church, I had ob. ferved ; but in a few weekswas appointed to be obferved gain by the King's proclamation, for the very fame caufe, without the leaft notice of what the church had already done in it. This I and others obferved not. Returninghome, I then find in my heart, " O that I had a place in the wildernefs !" &c. Jet. ix. 2. June 11. The facrament was adminiftered here. I and fame others in this church were now become a wonder to many ; and God tried me at that occafion, but was very gracious to me, and ftved me. from the reproachof men. On Thurfday Mr Wilfon came, but not Mr Davidibn, of whom I had made no doubt; fo that 1 preached that day with Mr Wilton, with much help from the Lord, having been feafonably led the day before, by forefeeing Providence, to have my thoughts that way. Mr Simfon, one of my three helpers, being under ficknefs, r had invited Mr Kid ; but on the Saturday I received a letter, (hew- ing him alfb to be kept back by the Lord's afllióting hand.. So the work lay on my two friends, who preached that day, and ,rnyfelf. The communicants appearing, by the tokens, to be near a third part more than ufually before, double tables were fet, whereas before we had ufe:d only a fingle one. .Saturday' night and Sabbath morning were great rains ; fo that awaking early on the Sabbath,.and beholding the waters fwollen, and the rain falling, threatening to bar there on the either fide, my foul faid, " what wilt thou do unto thy great name ! For now many eyes were on us ; and fhould the people, gathered from places at many miles diftance, have been fo difappointed, I thought it would be interpreted Heaven's fentence againfi them and us. I was helped to fúbmifiion, and to fee and adore holy becoming deigns of Providence, if it fhould be fo ; and to be eafy, believing God would do what is heft. But he lent down, ' and delivered us from the reproach of men,, gave us fìveet days of the gofpel, and not one fhower all the time of the work, Sabbath or Monday ; but flu- a great part of that time, fpread his black clouds over us, with fome intermixed fin-Airline. That threatening Sabbath morning kept the ufual Sabbath-day's multi= tude away from us; fo that there was no great difference be- twixt the Sabbath meeting and thole of the other days. The wind of divine affiance in the fermon blew upen me, fell, and rofe again. The Lord was with my brethren. I preached allo
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