Who was that Masked Prophet? II

The First Prophecy
While we do not have accounts of every farewell sermon preached by the four hundred ejected ministers, we do have an account on Peden's, although it is undated. The text was Acts 20.32: "And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified." Most of the congregation were in tears. Peden called upon them to be quiet, but when he told them that they would never see his face in the pulpit again, they wept all the more. He carried on preaching well into the night and, when the sermon was over, he came out of the pulpit and closed the pulpit door. Having done that, he knocked three times on the pulpit door with his Bible and uttered the first of his prophecies.
"I arrest thee in my Master's Name, that none enter thee but such as come in at the door, as I did."
By which he meant that, "Peden fenced the pulpit of Glenluce, and declared that none of the curates should ever set foot in it." (Robert Gordon) And, strange to say, no minister ever did until 1693, when William Kyle was inducted according to the Presbyterian form. And so was born the story of Peden the Prophet.

And the mask? As shown at the head of the last post, it was a disguise later adopted by Peden when he was a hunted man. More of which anon.