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morning the enemy will be here. Farewel, I will stay no longer in this place. To-morrow morning both foot and horse were about the house.
40. In the same year, within the bounds of Carrick, John Clark, in Muirbrock, being with him, said, Sir, what think ye of this present time? Is it mot a dark, melancholy day? And can there be a more discouraging time than this? He said, Yes John, this is indeed a dark, discouraging time; but there will be a darker time than this: These silly, graceless, wretched creatures the Curates, shall go down; and after them shall arise a party called Presbyterians, having no more than the name; and these shall as really crucify Christ, as ever he was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, on Mount Calvary, bodily; I say, they shall as really crucify Christ in his cause and interest in Scotland; and shall lay him in his grave, and his friends shall give him his winding sheet; and he shall ly, as one buried, for a considerable time. O then, John, there will be darkness and dark days, such as the poor Church of Scotland never saw the like of them, nor shall see, if once they were over! Yea, John, they shall be so dark, that if a poor thing would go between the East sea bank and the West sea bank, seeking a minister, to whom they would communicate their case, or tell them the mind of the Lord, concerning the times, she shall not find one. John asked where the testimony should be then? He answered, In the hands of a few, who shall be despised and undervalued by all, but especially by these ministers who buried Christ! But after that, he shall get up on them; and, at the crack of his winding-sheet, as many of them as are alive, who were at his burial, shall be distracted and mad for fear, not knowing what to do. Then, John, there shall be brave days, such as the Church of Scotland never saw the like! But I shall not see them, but you may."
