Wonderful
and
Unparralleld
News
from
Scotland
.
WHether
those
St
pendious
Operations
of
Omnipotency
,
which
dim-sighted
Humanity
admires
by
the
Name
of
Miracles
,
and
Infinite
Wisdom
made
use
of
for
Confirming
and
Propagating
Evangelical
Truths
in
the
In●ancy
of
the
Ch●●ch
,
be
yet
totally
Ceased
▪
is
a
Disp●te
too
Abstruse
and
Curio●●
to
be
Discussed
(
much
less
Determined
)
by
our
●e●…er
Pen
:
Yet
this
we
must
declare
,
that
the
ens●ing
Na●rative
carries
with
it
so
much
of
Rarity
and
Wonder
,
that
had
we
not
been
well
Satisfied
in
the
worth
and
Credit
of
the
Relaters
we
could
not
have
presumed
to
Expose
it
thus
publickly
to
the
World
without
much
Caution
and
a
large
Apologie
.
But
being
amply
Convinced
of
the
Truth
of
the
thing
as
to
matter
of
Fact
,
we
conceive
it
a
Duty
rather
than
Crime
,
to
Divulg●
〈◊〉
Register
so
Eminent
and
Signal
an
Accident
(
or
rather
Di●pensation
of
Providence
)
to
the
View
of
the
present
Age
an
notice
of
Posterity
:
Not
that
we
are
Ignorant
how
Obnox●ous
generally
(
and
sometimes
for
good
Reason
)
s●●n
Relations
a●e
to
Suspition
and
Censure
,
and
how
ready
those
that
Pride
themselves
in
being
counted
mighty
Wits
,
as
they
make
a
Mock
of
Sin
,
are
to
turn
the
most
dreadfu●
Judgments
into
Scoff
and
Drollery
;
from
such
we
may
expect
a
Thousand
Intorrogatives
.
As
wherefore
?
To
what
end
?
By
what
means
?
And
how
?
could
such
a
strange
thing
as
this
c●me
to
pass
,
&c.
But
our
Answer
is
as
ready
,
that
,
Had
we
designed
to
abuse
the
World
with
a
Fiction
,
an
ordinary
Invention
might
so
Artificially
have
composed
a
Story
,
as
might
have
been
Plausible
enough
to
Answer
all
the
Nice
Scurtinies
of
their
wanton
Imaginations
:
But
that
's
a
Liberty
we
dare
not
take
,
and
only
shall
Nakedly
set
forth
the
Truth
of
the
thing
as
it
happened
,
and
leave
each
Reader
to
make
his
own
Gloss
or
Comment
on
it
afterwards
as
he
pleases
.
IN
the
Town
of
Dumfreez
(
Situate
in
Galloway
,
on
the
South
of
Scotland
,
near
the
Marshes
or
Borders
)
there
lately
Dwelt
an
Antient
man
,
of
an
ordinary
Fortune
,
who
in
the
second
week
of
this
last
September
,
happened
to
fall
very
Sick
,
his
Distemper
seemed
to
be
only
a
violent
Feaver
;
nor
was
there
any
thing
Extraordinary
in
it
,
but
this
:
That
as
he
was
Seized
with
it
,
he
declared
to
his
Wife
and
Neighbours
,
that
he
should
certainly
Die
of
that
Sickness
,
which
continually
prevailing
against
Languishing
Nature
,
soon
perswaded
them
also
to
be
of
the
same
Opinion
.
But
the
very
day
before
he
departed
this
Life
,
he
charged
his
wife
to
get
him
Buried
within
Three
Hours
after
he
should
be
Dead
.
This
his
sorrowful
wife
little
Regarded
,
thinking
them
only
to
be
Extravagant
words
that
proceeded
from
the
Distemperature
of
his
Brain
:
which
he
obsorving
,
Repeated
the
same
Injunction
several
times
,
both
to
her
,
and
diverse
others
of
his
Friends
;
very
solemnly
adding
,
that
unless
they
did
so
Bury
him
in
that
short
space
,
they
should
never
be
able
afterwards
to
bear
away
,
or
remove
his
Body
.
They
askt
him
often
,
what
he
meant
?
And
why
he
should
say
so
?
But
could
procure
no
Answer
from
him
,
but
this
,
with
many
deep
sighs
,
It
would
be
so
.
The
Malignity
of
the
Disease
was
now
arrived
to
the
height
,
that
Nature
overpoured
,
could
no
longer-resist
,
so
that
on
the
28th
.
of
the
said
Month
of
September
last
this
poor
Creature
was
forced
to
quit
the
Stage
of
this
Tran●itory
Life
;
Dying
in
a
calm
and
ordinary
Temper
,
without
declaring
much
his
hopes
,
or
betraying
any
symptoms
of
dispair
.
His
enfranchised
Soul
had
no
sooner
quitted
the
Prison
of
his
Body
and
was
wafted
to
Eternity
,
but
his
Friends
remembring
his
Charge
of
being
speedily
Buried
,
resolve
to
make
a
Truce
with
their
Griefs
,
and
not
●t
still
stupified
with
an
unprofitable
Sorrow
,
but
rather
execute
as
fast
as
they
can
his
dying
Commands
in
that
particular
:
To
this
purpose
a
Coffin
is
immediately
sent
for
,
and
the
Corps
as
soon
as
said
forth
put
into
it
,
being
placed
on
a
Table
in
a
Ground
round
,
Neighbours
are
invited
,
and
all
preparation
made
to
inter
him
that
very
Night
;
but
the
three
hours
were
Elapst
,
It
being
almost
impossible
to
provide
all
things
in
so
small
a
time
.
At
last
the
Company
being
met
with
Charitable
intentions
to
bear
and
Accompany
the
body
to
it
's
long
home
,
in
the
place
Sacrated
&
set
a
part
for
that
purpose
,
which
was
above
half
a
Mile
distant
,
when
they
went
to
take
up
the
Coffin
.
Behold
!
It
would
not
stir
,
four
or
five
men
confessed
themselves
too
weak
,
and
then
the
whole
Company
add
their
helping
hands
but
to
no
purpose
,
the
Coffin
seems
fixed
to
the
Table
to
grow
out
of
the
Ground
,
rather
than
stand
there
,
so
that
neither
one
nor
the
other
could
by
all
their
strength
be
removed
,
or
stirred
in
the
least
.
This
accident
astonishes
all
the
Company
,
who
having
wearied
themselves
to
no
purpose
,
repair
at
night
to
their
respective
Habitations
fill'd
with
Admiration
,
and
leaving
the
disconsolate
Widdow
and
her
poor
Children
,
in
the
House
equally
ore
whe●m'd
with
Grief
,
and
affrighted
with
this
new
kind
of
Prodigy
.
Next
day
New
Counsells
were
taken
about
carrying
away
this
Corps
,
Since
the
Coffin
could
not
be
stirred
,
nor
the
Table
moved
by
strength
of
Man
,
they
resolve
at
last
to
try
what
may
be
done
with
that
of
Cattel
;
and
to
come
at
it
conveniently
are
forced
to
pull
down
a
wall
and
one
side
of
the
House
,
which
being
done
,
they
fasten
several
Teems
both
of
Oxen
and
Horses
to
the
Coffin
sometimes
,
and
sometimes
to
the
Table
:
But
both
remain
still
as
fixed
and
immoveable
as
a
Rock
,
and
which
was
remarkable
though
the
strength
of
the
Cattle
broke
,
most
of
their
Tackling
,
yet
neither
the
Coffin
nor
the
Table
,
received
the
least
prejudice
.
They
then
essayed
to
open
the
Coffin
and
take
out
the
Body
,
but
that
neither
could
be
done
;
so
that
at
length
dispairing
of
any
success
,
t●ey
give
over
attempting
any
thing
further
,
but
a
●●i●e●
the
poor
Woman
and
her
C●ildren
,
to
get
out
of
the
House
,
and
so
●eave
it
standing
;
which
they
did
accordingly
,
and
carried
all
their
moveable
Goods
to
another
House
in
the
Town
.
Thus
the
Corps
stood
in
the
f●rsa●en
Tenement
for
two
or
three
days
,
and
had
as
many
wondring
Pilgr●ms
to
visit
it
,
out
of
Curo●●ty
▪
as
Superstition
in
Fo●eign
parts
carries
to
the
Tomb
of
some
Celebrated
〈◊〉
.
At
last
the
Land
Lord
of
the
House
who
dwelt
some
Miles
distant
,
hearing
great
R●port
of
this
Prodigy
,
came
to
see
it
;
and
fin●ing
●ll
things
as
we
have
r●lated
,
because
his
House
by
this
means
wa●
rendred
Incapable
of
being
Tenanted
(
for
who
would
willingly
dwell
in
a
Charnel
House
)
and
that
it
was
before
old
and
ruinous
,
resolves
wholly
to
demolish
it
,
and
build
a
new
one
in
the
place
,
and
that
he
might
be
rid
of
this
unparalleld
Tomb
,
concludes
to
set
the
House
on
Fire
,
not
do●bting
but
thereby
the
Coffin
,
Table
,
and
Corps
would
tog●ther
with
the
rest
be
so●n
reduced
to
Ashes
;
but
he
promi●ed
himse●f
too
much
,
for
when
they
had
set
●he
House
all
on
Flames
,
and
the
same
was
wholly
Burnt
down
to
the
Ground
.
The
Coffin
and
Table
stood
as
before
,
whole
firm
and
untoucht
.
Seeing
all
ways
fail
,
some
Friends
of
the
deceased
,
after
the
House
was
Burnt
took
the
pains
to
cast
up
Earth
●bout
Table
,
and
at
last
have
cover'd
the
Coffin
with
that
Bank
which
yet
can
never
hide
the
strangeness
of
the
thing
,
b●t
that
it
will
remain
a
wonder
and
a
Rid●le
to
fu●ure
Generations
.
And
such
we
leave
it
,
without
any
impertinent
di●qui●●tion
after
the
Cause
of
so
Admirab●e
Phen●●●non
,
or
Saucy
prying
into
the
Eternal
Dooms-day
Book
of
Providence
;
which
sometimes
for
Reasons
only
known
to
its
infinite
Wisdom
suffers
wonderful
things
to
come
to
pass
,
and
often
(
as
in
the
well
known
Case
of
Lots
Wife
turned
into
a
lasting
Pillar
of
Salt
)
sets
up
amazing
Monuments
of
Divine
Justice
for
Sin
,
to
warn
and
deter
others
from
such
Crimes
.
Let
not
the
Reader
busie
himself
so
much
in
gue●sing
what
notorious
off●nce
could
cause
the
Infliction
of
so
strange
a
punishment
,
or
branding
the
Deceased
Party
with
harsh
and
unwarrantable
(
because
uncharitable
)
Censures
,
as
to
forget
his
own
Duty
,
which
is
to
become
more
Holy
and
more
Humble
,
by
such
dreadful
Examples
.
And
so
to
work
out
●h●
Sa●vation
with
Fe●r
and
T●em●ling
,
That
when
himself
shall
be
Summoned
by
Death
,
however
Providence
shall
dispose
of
his
Body
,
His
Soul
may
be
received
into
the
Mansions
of
Bliss
and
Glory
.
FINIS