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 will wake Scotland to tremble; many a preaching has God wared upon thee; but ere long God’s judgments shall be as frequent as these precious meetings were, wherein he sent forth his faithful servents to give faithful warning of the hazard of thy apostacy from God, in breaking, burning, and burying his covenant, persecuting, slighting, and contemning the gospel, shedding the precious blood of his faints and servants. God sent forth a Welwood, a Kid, and a King, a Cameron, and a Cargil, and others to preach to thee; but ere long God shall preach to thee by fire and a bloody sword; God will let none of these men’s words fall to the ground, that he sent forth with a commission to preach these things in his name: He will not let one sentence fall to the ground but they shall have a sure accomplishment, to the sad experience of many. In his prayer after sermon, he said, Lord, thou had been both good and kind to old Sandy, through a long tract of time, and given him many years in thy service, which has been but so many months; but now he is tired of thy world, and hath done the good in it that he will do let him win away with the honesty he has, for he will gather no more.

In his last sermon, which, as I said before, was in the Colm Wood, where he said, that in a few years after his death, there would be a wonderful alteration of affairs Britain and Ireland, and the persecution in Scotland should cease, upon which every body should believe the deliverance was come, and consequently would fall fatally secure; but I tell you, said he, you will be all very far mistaken; for both England and Scotland will be scourged by foreigners and a set of unhappy men in these lands taking part with them, before any of you can pretend to be happy, or get thorough deliverance, which will be a more severe chastisement than any other they have met with, or can come under, if that were once over.

When the day of his death drew near, and not being able to travel, he came to his brother’s house in the parish of Sorn, where he was born, he caused dig a Cave, with Saughen Bush covering the mouth of it, near to his house: the enemies got notice and searched the house narrowly many times. In the time that he was in this Cave, said to some friends, t, That God shall make Scotland desolation. 2dly, There should be a remnant in the land