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he could not look upon but with frowns; and sometimes when at family-worship, he said, pointing to her with a frowning countenance, "You come from the barn and from the byre reeking in your lasts, and sit down among us; we do not want you, nor none such." At last he said to William Steel and his wife, "Put that unhappy lass from your house, for she will be a stain to your family, for she is with child, and will murder it, and will be punished for the same." Which accordingly came to pass, and she was burnt at Craig-Fergus, which is the punishment of murderers of children there. I had this account from John Muirhead, who staid much in that house, and other Christian people, when in Ireland.
On the second of February, 1685, he was in the house of one Mr. Vernon, at night, and John Kilpatrick, Mrs. Vernon's father, a very old worthy 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 death will be a great loss." "Well, John," said he, "you and I shall be both in heaven shortly, but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the fore-start of your's, 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
