64 RiEIVIOI10 OE PERIOD V. would be up yet. This Teemed W point at the fpring of the op- pofrtion to the motion forefaid. I had been much fatislied in converfe with tome ferrous Chrif- tians in that country : and efteeming the Merle an overgrown piece of the vineyard, there fat downon my fpirit agreat averfion to fettling in it ; infómuch that I prayed against it, but with rub- million. In the middle of the Week, one carne from Dunbar inviting The thither, intimating it to be the defireof Tome to lee me there. I went along with him, and fpent the time in vifis ; but moftly with Bailie Kellie, who was in diftrefs, and converted fuitably as a good man. At night feveral coming in to the exercif, I lecïured. There was an Epifcopal incumbent then in their kirk : and the Prefbyterians had a meeting-houfe. This meeting- hoüfe they propofed to me, and urged : but finding that their preacher was to continue in the character of a probationer, while with them, I could not relilh the motion ; and their prefbyitery's coldnefs W me juftified the refufál. On Saturday Aug. 5.'being at Stenton, where I was to preach on the morrow, after I had begun my ftudies, we were called to family-worfliip. Being defred, I prayed with compofure for a while : but being in the kitchen, where was a great heat, mar heart began to fail, fo that I was obliged to break off; and going ftraight to the door for air; fainted away there. Lying in which cafe'I lifted up my heart to the Lord, boding kindnefs on him ; recovered, and was eafed by vomiting, as uf'ual. I had refted little that week, but had been riding hither and thither; which kind of toffing I have feldotn been the better of. Being confuted through the remains of my indifpòftlon, my ftudies took all my time. Meanwhile this new experience of my frailty, made the little charge of Simprim more acceptable to me. Sabbath fore- noon 1 was indifpofed both in body and fpirit, yet hadCottle help of the Lord. Betwixt fermons 1 cried for an alteration, and got it, both in body and fpirit and was helped to exprefs matters of force difficulty, with that dittinctnef`s, which I was fore I could not have treated of them in private. Hereof L had then had frequent experience, and fìnce too. On the morrow, Aug. 7. being to return home, I was com- forted by a Chriftian woman, goodwife of Roughlaw, bleffing God that ever the fiiw me, and (hewing that never one had read her cafe, as the Lord had helped me to do, in my fermons first and Taft. At parting the put in my pocket about 9s. Sterling, which I value as a token of Chriftian affeótion. That night I came to Dunfe. And thus, after all my perplexity, when thematter was brought to the utmoft pinch, kind Providence opened an unexpected way for expeding one part of my defign ; and removed the other, viz. the going to Galloway, much out of my view. I was, Ater greatltraitening, liberally provided, beyond expevtation. And
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