according to the multitude of his mercies" In which sermon he touched neither the tyranny nor defections in the land This confirmed what he said in his dying words, "However it be with me at the last, though I should be straitened by God or interrupted by men; yet all is true and shall be well: I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little," &c.
4thly, The next Sabbath-day he preached at the Fallow-hill, in the west end of Livingston parish, upon the boarders of Clydesdale. In the Preface he said I know I am and will be condemned by many for what I have done, in excommunicating these wicked men; but condemn me who will, I am approven of God, and am persuaded, that what I have done on earth is ratified in heaven: For if ever I knew the mind of God, and was clear in my call to any piece of my regeneration-work, it was in that; and I shall give you two signs whereby you may know that I am in no delusion.
1. If some of these men do not find that sentence binding upon them ere they go off the stage, and be obliged to confess it from their terror, and to the affrightment of others.
2. If these men die the ordinary death of men then God never sent me, nor spoke by me.
The first of these was clearly verified in the case of my Lord Rothes, and the second was verified also to the remembrance of many yet alive. I. All know that Charles IId. was poisoned. 2. His brother the Duke of York, died in St. Germains in France I can give no account of his death 3. The Duke of Monmouth was executed at London. 4. The Duke of Lauderdale turned a belly-god, and died upon the chamber-box 5. The Duke of Rothes died raving, under the dreadful terrors and sense of that sentence binding upon him, making his bed shake the affrightment of all that heard and saw him. 6.
