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He will not let one sentence fall to the ground, but they will have a sad accomplishment, to the sad experience of many. In his prayer after sermon, he said, Lord, thou hast been both good and kind to auld Sandy, thro' a long tract of time, and given him many years in thy service, which has been but as so many months; but now he is tired of thy world, and hath done all the good in it that he will do; let him win away with the honesty he has, for he will gather no more.
45. When the day of his death drew near, and not being able to travel, he came to his brother's house, in the parish of Sorn, where he was born; and caused dig a cave, with a saughen bush covering the mouth of it, near to his brother's house: and the enemies came and searched the house narrowly many times. In the time that he was in this cave, he said to some friends, 1. That God shall make Scotland a desolation. 2. There shall be a remnant in the land, whom God should spare and hide. 3. They should lie in holes and caves of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink: And when they come out of their holes, they shall not have freedom to walk, for stumbling on the dead corpses! 4. A stone cut out of a mountain, should come down, and God shall be avenged on the great ones of the earth, and the inhabitants of the land, for their wickedness; and then the church should come forth with a bonny bairn time of young ones at her back. He wished that the Lord's people might ly hid in their caves, as if they were not in the world; for nothing would do it, until God appeared with his judgments, and they that wan through the bitter and sharp, short storm, by the sword of the Frenches, and a set of unhappy men, taking part with them, then there would be a spring-tide day of plenty, purity and power of the gospel; giving them that for a sign, If he were but once buried, they might be in doubts; but if he were oftener buried than once, they might be persuaded that all he had said would come to pass: And earnestly desired them
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