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sufferer and your bits of paper and drops of blood will be shut to the door, & never a word more of them; and ye and the like of you, will get their backside.—He gave him another sore clap upon the shoulder, saying, “Keep mind of this James Wilson for as the Lord lives, it will surely come to pass.” James Wilson told me this shortly thereafter. & repeated it again ⟨at⟩ first General Assembly, when he and I, and many others saw the accomplishment of this in every particular to our grief.
37. In the beginning of May, 1685, he came to the house of John Brown and Marion Weir, whom he married before he went to Ireland, where he stayed all night; and in the morning, when he took farewell he came out at the door, saying to himself, “Poor woman, a fearful morning!” twice over: “A dark misty morning.” The next morning, between five and six, the said John Brown, having gone about the worship of God in his family, was going with a spade in his hand, to make ready some peat ground; the mist being very dark, he knew not until cruel & bloody Claverhouse compassed him with three troops of horse, and brought him to his house, and there examined him: who though he was a man of a stammering speech, yet answered him distinctly & solidly; which made Claverhouse to ask those whom he had taken to be his guides through the muirs, if ever they heard him preachThey answered, “No, no, he was never a preacher.” He said, “If he has never preached meikle, he has prayed in his time.” He said to John, “Go to your prayers, for you shall immediately die.” When he was praying, Claverhouse interrupted him three times: One time that he stopt him, he was pleading that the Lord would spare a remnant and not make a full end in the day of his anger, Claverhouse said, “I give you time to pray, and ye are begun to preach;” He turned about upon his knees, and said, “Sir, you know neither the nature of praying nor preaching, that calls this preaching; then continued
