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in this ſtrait, he ſaid to Robert Wark, an old worthy Chriſtian, worthy of credit, Robert, go and take ſuch a man with you, and the firſt bark ye can find, compel them, for they will be like the dogs in Egypt, not one of them will move their tongue againſt you." Accordingly, Robert and his comrade found it out ſo, and brought her to that ſecret place where he was. When Robert and his comrade came and told him, he was glad, and very kind and free; but he ſeemed under a cloud at that time. He ſaid, "Lads, I have loſt my proſpect wherewith I was wont to look over to the bloody land, and tell you and others, what enemies and friends were doing: the devil and I puddles and rides time about upon one another, but it I were uppermoſt again, I ſhall ride hard, and ſpurgaw well: I have been praying for a ſwift paſſage over to the ſinful land, come of us what will. And now Alexander Gordon is away with my prayer wind; but it were good for the remnant in Scotland, he never ſaw it; for as the Lord lives, he ſhall wound that intereſt ere he go off the ſtage."
This ſadly came to paſs in his life, and was a reproach to it at his death.— A little before they came off, he baptiſed a child to John Maxwell, a Glaſgow-man, who was fled over from the perſecution: in his diſcourſe before baptiſm, he burſt out into a rapture, foretelling that black day that was to come upon Ireland, and ſad days to Scotland, and after all this was to come good days. Mrs. Maxwell or Mary Elphingſton, the mother of the child, yet alive in Glasgow, told me this, that in the time he was aſſerting theſe things, ſhe was thinking and wondering what ground of aſſurance he had for them, he cried aloud, ſhaking his hand at her: and ſaid, "Woman, thou art thinking and wondering within thyſelf, whether I be ſpeaking thoſe things out of the viſions of my own head, or if I be taught by the Spirit of God; I tell thee woman, thou ſhalt live and ſee that I am not miſtaken.
