The Correspondence of Robert Wodrow Volume 1 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ... labours to the advancing of his kingdom in the world; and am, Reverend and Dear Sir, your affectionate and very much obliged, R. W. May 22, 1714. LETTER CLXXII. A VERY ODD SIGHT, IF TRUE. To Mr J. Erskine. Dear Sir,--I have been these two or three weeks wandering up and down at communions, where I am glad to hear so much said to awaken people out of their unaccountable security. The shire of Ayr is in very good tift, and they want not necessaries in case of a visit from their neighbours over the water. I was last week in the shire of Dumbarton, where the gentry are very ill disposed, and the common people under some apprehensions, but very ill provided, though they lie as open as many places. Cockburn, the tolerated incumbent at Glasgow, has been lately at Dumbarton spreading his senseless notions of our reformers not being in orders, and consequently our Presbyterian ordination and sacraments are void and null, and we are all in a heathen state. At Dumbarton I heard a story which makes some noise in that country, though, for my own part, I lay no stress on such accounts till I have them fully attested. Li May last, Mr Archibald Gillespie, minister at Kilmaglasse, Kilmartin-Glassary, in the Presbytery of Denune, was one morning called out of his bed to see a very odd sight, if true. He went out, and the sun, who seemed to be an hour risen, appeared very pale, almost white, and larger than usual, and in the sun there appeared to them a woman, very well dressed in a grave habit; when they had looked a while, they observed two large Vol. i. 2 N clouds rise on every side of the sun; these two, with points one towards another like spears, came pretty near one another, and suddenly removed and clashed together again and again, like two armies charging one anothe...