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resurrection; but for me, I must go to the bloody land (this was his ordinary way of speaking, bloody or sinful land, when he spoke of Scotland) and die there; and the enemies out of their wickedness, will lift my corpse unto another place; but I am very indifferent, John, for I know my body shall lie among the dust of the martyrs; and though they should take my old bones and make whistles of them, they will all be gathered together in the morning of the ressurection; and then, John, you and I, and all that will be found having on Christ's righteousness, will get day-about with them, and give our hearty assent to their eternal damnation." The same night, after this discourse, while about family worship, about ten or eleven o'clock, explaining the portion of Scripture he read, he suddenly hearkened, and said, "What's this I hear?" And hearkened again a little, and clapped his hands and said, "I hear a dead shot at the throne of Britain! Let him go yonder, he has been a black sight to these lands, especially to poor Scotland: we are all quit of him; there has been many a wasted prayer wared on him." And it was concluded by all, the same night that unhappy man Charles II. died. I had this account from John Muirhead, and others who were present and confirmed in the truth of it, by some worthy Christians, when I was in Ireland.
