Patrick Walker

“ A little before his death, he was in Auchincloish; where he was born, in the house of John Richman, there being two beds in one room, one for him and one Andrew—, who dwelt in and about the New-milns; when Andrew offered to go to his bed, he heard him very importunate with the Lord to have pity upon the Weft of Scotland, and spare; a remnant, and not make a full end in the day of his anger; and when he was off his knees, walking up and down the chamber, crying out, Oh! the Monzies, the French Monzies, fee how they run, how long will they run? Lord, cut their boughs, and stay their running. ”

“ 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. ”

“ In the time that he was in this Cave, he said to some friends, (illegible text) t, That God shall make Scotland desolation. 2dly, There should be a remnant in the land whom God should spare and hide. 3dly, They should 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 have freedom to walk for stumbling on dead corpses. 4thly, 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 ”

“ 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 ”

“ The remnant will get a breathing; but they will be driven to the Wilderness again, and their sharpest showers will be last.
To the same purpose spoke the two following ministers, vis. Mr Thomas Lundie, a godly minister in the North of Ratray: his sister a lady in that country, who died in the year 1683, gave the following account, that the said Mr Lundie, after some sickness and seeming recovery again, which comforted them: bit one morning, he lying longer than ordinary in his chamber, the foresaid lady knocking at his chamber door, who opening it, found him more than ordinary weighed ”