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 40. In the same year, within the bounds of Carrick, John Clark in Muirbrock, being with him, said, Sir, what think ye of this present time? Is it not a dark melancholy day? And can there be a more discouraging time than this? He said, yes John, this is, indeed, a dark discouraging time; but there will be a darker time than this; these silly, graceless, wretched creatures the Curates, shall go down, and after them shall arise a party called Presbyterians, but having little more than the name; and these shall, as really as Christ was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem on mount Calvary, bodily. I say, they shall as really crucify Christ in his cause and interest in Scotland, and shall lay him in his grave, and his friends shall give him his Winding sheet; and he shall lye as one buried for a considerable time. O! then, John, there will be darkness, and dark days, such as the poor church of Scotland never saw she like of them, nor shall see, if once they were over; yea, John, they shall be so dark, that if a poor thing would go between the east sea-bank and the west sea-bank, seeking a minister to whom they would communicate their case, or tell them the mind of the Lord concerning the times, he should not find one. John asked, Where the testimony should be then? He answered, in the hands of a few who shall be despised and undervalued by all, but especially by these ministers who buried Christ; but after that, he shall get up upon them: And at the crack of his Winding-sheet, as many of them as are alive, who were at his burial, shall be distracted and mad for fear, not knowing what to do; then John, there shall be brave days, such as the church of Scotland never saw the like; but I shall not fee them, but you may.

In the same year 1685, preaching in the night-time in a barn at Carrick, upon that text, Psal. lxviii t. 2. "Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; let them that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven, so drive thou them." So insisting, how the enemies and haters of God and godliness, were to ed and driven as smoke or chaff by the wind of God's vengeance, while on earth; and that wind would blow them all to hell in the end. Stooping down, there being chaff among his foot he took a handful of it, and said, the Duke of York and now king of Britain, a known enemy of God and godliness, it was by the vengeance of God that he ever got that name; but as ye fee me throw