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God, &c. he caused the clerk to stop, and, pointing to the Advoeate, Sir George M'Kenzie, said, 'The man that hath caused that paper to be drawn up hath done it contrary to the light of his own conscience, for he knoweth that I have been a fearer of God from mine infancy; but that man, I say, who took the Holy Bible in his hand, and said, It would never be well with the land, until that book was destroyed, &e. I say, he is the man that hath cast off all fear of God.' The advocate stormed at this, but could not deny the truth thereof.
When they got their sentence announced by sound of trumpet he said, “ That is a weary sound, but the sound of the last trumpet will be a joyful sound to me, and all that will be found having on Christ's righteousness.
Being come to the scaffold, he stood with his back to the ladder, and desired the attention of the numerous spectators; and after singing from the 16th verse of the 118th psalm, he began to speak to three sorts of people; but being interrupted by the drum, he said, with a smiling eountenance, 'Ye see we have no liberty to speak what we would, but God knoweth our hearts.' As he proeeeded, he was again interrupted. Then, after a little pause, or silence, he began to exhort the people; and to show his own comfort in laying down his life, in the assurance of a blessed eternity, expressing himself in these words: 'Now, I am as sure of my interest in Christ, and peace with God, as all within this Bible and the Spirit of God can make me; and I am fully persuaded, that this is the very way
