who came to ſee him, ſaying, 'Tell the preſbytery to anſwer for God, and his cauſe and covenant,' ſaying, 'The caſe is deſperate, let them be in their duty.'———Then directing his ſpeech to Mr. Colvil and Mr. Honeyman, he ſaid, 'Stick to it. You may think it an eaſy thing in me, a dying man, that am now going out of the reach of all that men can do; but He, before whom I ſtand, knows, that I dare adviſe no colleague or brother to do what I would not cordially do myſelf, upon all hazard; and as for the cauſes of God's wrath, that men have now condemned, tell Mr. James Wood from me, that I had rather lay down my head on a ſcaffold, and have it chopped off many times, (were it poſſible) before I had paſſed from them.' And then to Mr. Honeyman, he ſaid,———'Tell Mr. Wood, I heartily forgive him all the wrongs he has done me, and deſire him from me, to declare himſelf the man that he is ſtill, for the government of the church of Scotland.'
Afterwards, when ſome ſpake to him of his former painfulneſs and faithfulneſs in the miniſtry, he ſaid, 'I diſclaim all that 'the port that I would be at, is redemption and forgiveneſs thro' his blood, Thou ſhall ſhew me the path of life, in thy ſight is fulneſs of joy: there is nothing now betwixt me and the reſurrection, but, To-day thou ſhalt be with me in paradiſe.' Mr. Blair ſaying, ſhall I praiſe the Lord for all the mercies he has done and is to do for you? He anſwered, 'Oh! for a well tuned harp.' To his child, he ſaid, 'I have again left you upon the Lord: it may be, you will tell this to others, that the lines are fallen to me in pleaſant places, I have got a goodly heritage, I bleſs the Lord that he gave me counſel.'
Thus, by five o'clock in the morning, (as he himſelf foretold) it was ſaid unto him, Come up hither, and he gave up the ghost, and the renowned
