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out of their great wickedness, will lift my corpse unto another place; but I am very indifferent, Johnt for I know my body will lie among the dust of the martyrs, and though they should take my old bones and make whistles of them, they will be all gathered together, in the morning of the resurrection; and then John, you and I, and all that will be found having on Christ's righteousness, will get day-about with them, and give our hearty assent to their eternal sentence of damnation." The same night after this discourse, while about family worship, about 10 or 11 o'clock, explaining the portion of scripture he read, he suddenly halted and hearkened, and said three times over, What's this I hear; and hearkened again a little, and clapt his hands and said, "I hear a dead shot at the throne of Britian, let him go yonder, he has been a black sight to these lands, especially to poor Scotland: we are all quite of him; there has been many a wasted prayer wasted on him." And it was concluded by all, that same night, that unhappy man Charles I died. I had this account from John Muirhead and others who were present, and confirmed in the truth of it, by some worthy Christians when I was in Ireland.
22. Upon the 4th of Feburry 1685. he preached at a wood side near the said Mr. Vernor's house; he read the whole of the xlix psalm; after reading he charged the hearers, that none of them open their mouths to sing, but those who could do it knowingly and believing; for some few lines few opened their mouths. but as John Muirhead and John Waddel, who were present, (two solid Christians & great sufferrers, who lived and died in the parishes of Cambusnethen and Shots) said to me, they and some others, could not contain and forbear singing, but broke out with their whole hearts and whole
