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21. On the second of February 1685. he was in the house of one Mr. Vernor; at night he and John Kilpatrick, Mrs. Vernor’s father, a very worthy old Christian, he said to him, John the world may well want you and me. John said. Sir. I have been very fruitless and useless all my days, and the world may well want me, but your death will be a great loss.—Well, John, said he, you and I shall be in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven; but your body will get, the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection; but for me, I must go to the bloody land (this was his ordinary way of speaking, bloody or sinful land, when he spake of Scotland) and die there; and the enemies, out of their great wickedness, will lift my corpse unto another place; but I am very indifferent, John for I know my body shall lie among the dust of the martyrs; and though they should take my old bones and make whistles of them, they will all be 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 ten or eleven 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 clapped his hands and said I hear a dead shot at the throne of Britain! let him go yonder, he has been a black sight to these lands, especially to poor Scotland: we are well quit of him; there has been many a wasted prayer wared on him. And it was concluded by all, the same night that unhappy man Charles II. died. I had this account from the foresaid John Muirhead and others, who were present, and was confirmed in, the truth of it by some worthy Christians when I was in Ireland.
