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Title: The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant"
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
Subjects: Covenanters Scotland -- Church history
Publisher: Richmond : Presbyterian Committee of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in Lorn,
about 1626. He was ordained pastor at New Luce,
in Galloway, about 1660. After three years he was
deprived of his charge by the Drunken Act of Glas-
gow. His farewell service before leaving his flock
was a very pathetic occasion, and as the people refused
to go home, he contiiuicd with them in the church until
after nightfall. Frequently, while he spoke that day.
he was interrupted by outbursts of wailing from his
hearers, though he urged them to be composed. As
he finished he closed the door of his pulpit and fastened
it; then, knocking on it hard three times with his
Bible, he said thrice, " In my Master's name T arrest
thee! that none ever enter thee but such as enter as

PEDEN THE PROPHET. 109

I have done, by the donor. This prophecy was fulfilled,
for no minister ever entered that pulpit until the per-
secutions were over, the Church of Scotland freed, and
then a pastor was installed, according to the wishes
of the people, and in the spirit of him who left under
such trying circumstances.
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Peden the Prophet.

From the day he was driven from his pulpit he was
a wanderer, preaching at conventicles and ministering
to the people as he had opportunity. He joined the
Pentland insurrection, but soon left it, believing that no

110 THE BLUE FLAG.

it could do no good. He was thereafter denounced as
an outlaw and his property confiscated. For five years
he was a prisoner at the Bass Rock, near Edlnburgh.
In December, 1678, he was sentenced, along with sixty
others, to perpetual banishment, and carried to London
with a view to transportation to the plantations of the
American colonies. He encouraged his companions on
the way to London, telling them " the ship is not built
that will bear us over the sea to any of the plantations."
When they reached London they were all liberated,
from what cause was never known. In 1679 he re-
turned to Scotland, dividing his time afterwards be-
tween his own country and Ireland, or, as he described
it, " In going from one bloody land to the other bloody
land".

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