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 good and kind to auld Sandy, through a long tract of time, and gave him many years in thy service, which has been but so many months: but now he is tired of the world, and hath done all the good in it that he will do; let him win away with the honesty he has, for he will gather no more.

45. When the day of his death drew near, & not being able to travel, he came to his brother's house in the parish of Scorn, where he was born: he caused dig a cave with a sauchen bush covering the mouth of it, and the enemies came & searched the house narrowly many times. In the time that he was in the cave he said to some friends, 1 That God shall make Scotland a desolation 2 There shall be a renmant in the land, whom God shall spare and hide. 3 They shall lie in holes and caves of the earth, and be supplied with meat and drink: and when they come out of their holes, they shall not be able to walk for stumbling on the dead corpse 4 A stone cut out of the mountain, should come down, and God shall be avenged on the great ones of the earth and the inhabitants of the land, for their wickedness: and then the church should come forth with a bonny bairn time of young ones at her back He wished that the Lord's people might lie hid in their caves, as if they were not in the world for nothing would do it, until God appeared with his judgements, and they that wan through the bitter and sharp short storm, by the sword of the Frenches, and a set of unhappy men taking part with them then there would be a spring-tide day of the gospel: given them for a sign. If he were but once buried, they might be in doubts; but it he were other buried than ocneonce [sic], they might be persuaded that all he said would come to pass: And earnestly desired them to take his corps to