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was no greater than the deed, it being then in the heat of killing time, in the end of February, 1685, when at exerciſe in the Bark, he ſaid, Lord thou knoweſt theſe lads are hot ſpirited, lay an arreſt upon them, that they may not appear; their time is not yet; though Monmouth and Argyle be coming, they will work no deliverance. At that time there was no report of their coming, for they came not for ten weeks thereafter. In the morning after they landed; he lectured before they parted, ſitting upon a braeſide, where he had fearful threatnings againſt Scotland, ſaying, The time was coming, that they might travel many miles in Galloway and Nithſdale, Ayr and Clydeſdale, and not ſee a recking houſe, nor hear a cock crow. And further ſaid, that his ſoul trembled to think, what would become of the indulged, backſlidden and upſitten miniſters of Scotland; as the Lord lives, none of them ſhall ever be honoured to put a right pin in the Lord's tabernacle, nor aſſert Chriſt's kingly prerogative, as head and king of his church. To the ſame purpoſe, ſaid the never-to-be-forgotten Mr. Donald Cargill, within eight hours of his martyrdom, that he feared though there were not another miniſtry in all the earth, he would make no more uſe of them in a national reformation; but ſend dreadful judgments upon themſelves, and a long curſe upon their posterity. And Mr. Rutherford ſaid, in his day, 1656, That ſad and heavy were the judgments and indignation from the Lord, that was abiding the unfaithful watchmen of Scotland: meaning the unhappy Reſolutioners. When ended, he prayed earneſtly for many things, particularly, that all the ſins they had committed in Ireland, might be buried in that place, and might not ſpread with them through the ſinful land.
24 When the greater part took their farewell of him, he ſaid to the reſt, To what houſe or place ſhall we go? One Hugh Kennedy ſaid, We will go to ſuch a houſe. He ſaid, Hewie, we will not get in our noſe there; for the devil and his bairns are there. Notwithſtanding,
