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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 Calvery, 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 is the poor Church of Scotland never saw the like of them nor shall see. if once they were over! Yes. John they shall be so dark that if a poor thing would go between the East sea-bank & the West sea-bank, seeking a minister, to whom they would communicate their ease, 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 & 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.”
41. In the same year 1685, preaching in the night-time in a barn at Carrick, upon that text Psalm. lxviii. l. “Let God arise! and let his enemies be scattered! Let them that hate him flee before him! As smoke is driven so drive thou them!” So insisting how the enemies and haters of God and goodness were tossed, and driven as smoke or chaff by the wind of God's vengeance, while on earth; and that wind would blow them all to hell in the end: stooping down, there being chaff among his feet, he took a handful of it, and said, “The Dukeof
