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des Schott.
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Geiste;
waren aber vorzugsweise gütig gegen die Geistlichkeit; 71) so
wusste man, dass der berühmte Rutherford, als er erst 4 Jahre
alt war, in einen Brunnen flel und von einem Engel, der aush
drüeklieh herbeieilte, um ihm das Leben zu retten, wieder heraus-
gezogen wurde. 72) Ein anderer Prediger hatte die Angewohnheit
zu lange zu schlafen; er pflegte des Morgens durch drei wunder-
bare Schlage an seine Thüre geweckt zu werden, und wenn sie
dort nicht den gehörigen Eindruck hervorbraehten, wiederholten
sie sieh dicht vor seinem Bette. Des Sonntags und wenn er das
Abendmahl auszutheilen hatte, blieb dieses Klopfen nie aus und
währte so lange er im Arnte war; erst als er alt und schwach
wurde, hörte es ganz aufß)
71) Der Rev. William Row (in seiner Oonimzzation of Blaiv" sAutolziograplzy, p. 153)
sagt. "Without all doubt, though it cannot be provenvfrom Scriptme, that every one
has a tutelar angel, yet it is certain that the good angels 410 many good ofüees to the
people cf God, cspecially io Ms ministers und ambassadors, which we do not see, und
do not remark or know."
72) "Mr. James Stirling, und Mr. Robert Muir, and severall others in the com-
pany, agreed ou this accompt of Mr. Rutherforrl. When about four yeurs old, he was
playing about his fathefs house, and a. sister of his, somewhat older than he, with
him. Mr. Rutherford fell into a. well severall fathoms deep, aud not full, but faced
about withheuen stone, soe that it was not possible for any body to get up almost,
far lass a child. When he fell in, his sister ran iuto the house near by, and told
that Samuell was fallen into the weil; upon whieh his father and mother ran out,
und found him sitting on the grasse beside the well; and when they asked him, Hou
he gote out? he said, after he waz once at the bottome, he came up to the tope, and
ther was a bonny young 1mm pulled him out by the hand. Ther was noe body near
by at the time; and soe they conclurled it was noe doubt ane angell. The Lord had
mueh to doe with him." Wodroeds Analecta, I, 57. Siehe auch III, 88, 89, wo
die Begebenheit ebenfalls angeführt ist als „a. tradition anent him in the place of his
birth."
73) „Mr. William Trail, minister at ÄQSHW, tells me that his father, Mr. William
Trail, minister at Borthwick, used every morning, when he had publick work on his
band, to hear three knocks et his ehamber dore; aud if, throu wearynes, or heaviness,
he did sitt these, ther wer ordinaiily three knocks at his bed-head, which he never
durst sitt, but gott up to his work. This was ordinaüy about three in the morning.
This, at iirst, in his youth, frighted him; but at lenth it turned easy to him,
and he bclieved these knocks and awaknings prooeeded from a good art. That these
never failed him on Sabbaths und at Oommunions, When 119 was ublidged to rise
early: That when he turned old. and inürm, toward the close of his dayes, they in-
tirely ceased und. left him." Wodrowk Analecta, II, 307. Dies Werk in 4 Qual-t-
Bänden ist unschätzbar für die Geschichte des Schott-lachen Geistes; es ist ein grosses
Repertorium der Meinungen und Traditionen der Geistlichkeit im 17. Jahrhundert und
