Patrick Walker

“ God sent forth a Welwood, a Kid and a King, a Cameron and a Cargil, and others to preach to thee; but e'er long God shall preach to thee by fire and a bloody sword; God will let none of these mens 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 accoplishment, to the sad experience of many. ”

“ Then he began and said, Lord, it is thy enemies day, hour and power; they may not be idle, but hast thou no other work for them, but to send them after us? Send them after them to whom thou wilt give strength to flee, for our strength is gone; twine them about the hill, Lord, and cast the lap of thy cloak over old Sandy, and thir poor things, and save us this one time, and we'll keep it in remembrance, and tell it to the commendation of thy goodness, pity, and compassion; what thou didst for us at such a time. In the mean time there was a dark cloud of mist came betwixt them. ”

“ He said, O sirs, ye'll have a dreadful day by the French Monzies, and a set of wicked men in these lands who will take part with them; the west of Scotland will pay dear for it; they will run thicker in the water of Air and Clyde than ever the Highland men did. I lay in that chamber about three years ago, and the said John Richman and his wife told me, that these were his words. At other times, to the same purpose, saying, O the Monzies, the Monzies, will be thro the breadth and length of the south and west of Scotland! ”

“ About this time there was an honest poor wife brought him and them some bread & milk; when seeking a blessing, he said, As the Gyse of the times, now in this bloody land, this poor woman has endangered her life, in bringing bread to support ours; we cannot pay her for it, but, Lord, it is for thy sake she has brought it; there's no need that she should be a loser at thy hand; thou givest plenty of bread to many that are not so worthy of it; giving does not impoverish thee, & witholding does not enrich thee; give this poor wife twenty bonnacks for these few. ”

“ John said, sir, I am not willing to leave you in this place your alone, for some have been frighted by the devil in this cave: No, no, John, said he, you need not fear that, I will take my venture of him for a time. John went, & the people willingly gave him some meat: When he came back, he said, John, it is very hard living in this world, incarnate devils above the earth, and devils beneath the earth; the devil has been here since you went away: I have sent him off in haste, we'll be no more troubled with him this night. ”

“ After this he longed to be out of Ireland, what thro the fearful apprehensions of that dismal day of rebellion in Ireland, that came upon it four years thereafter, and that he might take part with the sufferers of Scotland; He came near the coast one morning; John Muirhead came to him lying within a hedge; he said, Have ye any news, John? John said, There is great fear of the Irish arising: he said, No, no, the time of their rising is not yet; but they will rise, and dreadful will it be at last. ”

“ About this time he and John Clark, who ordinarily was called little John, were in a cave in Galloway; they wanted meat and drink long, he said, John, better be thrust through with the sword, than pine away with hunger: the earth and the fulness thereof belongs to my Master, and I have a right to as much of it as will keep me from fainting under his service; go to such a house, and tell them plainly, that I have wanted meat so long, and they will willingly give it. ”

“ There are four or five things I have to tell you this night, and the first is this, A bloody sword, a bloody sword, a bloody sword for thee, O Scotland, that shall tear the hearts of many, 2dly, Many miles shall you travel, and shall see nothing but desolation and ruinous wastes in thee, O Scotland, 3dly, The fertilest places in Scotland shall be as waste and desolate as the mountains. 4thly, The women with child shall be ript up and dashed to pieces. ”

“ As the lad was going from the house, eighteen of the enemies foot were near, crying, Stand, dog. The lad ran, and, six of them pursued half a mile, and fired hard upon him; the ball went close by his head. At that time Mr. Peden continued in prayer for him alone, and with the rest, being twelve men; when praying with them, he said Lord, shall the poor lad that's gone our errand, seeking bread to support our lives, lose his? Direct the bullets by his head, however near, let them not touch him; good Lord, spare the lap of thy cloak, and cover the poor lad. ”

“ After singing, in preface he cried out, Pack and let us go to Scotland, let us flee from one devouring sword and go to another; the poor honest lads in Scotland are running upon the hills, & have little either of meat or drink, but cold and hunger; and the bloody enemy are pursuing and murdering them wherever they find them; their blood is running like water upon scaffolds & fields: rise let us go & take part with them, for we fear they bar us out of heaven. ”

“ He wished that the Lord's people might ly hid in their caves, as if they were not in the world, for nothing would do it, until God appeared with his judgments, and they that wan thro the bitter and short sharp 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 plenty, purity and power of the gospel ”

“ After sermon, when marrying a pair of folks, when the man had the woman by the hand, he said, Indeed man, you have a bonny bride by the hand, I see a covetous devil in her, she is both a thief and a whore, let her go, you will be ashamed of her. ”

“ In the time that he was in this cave, he said to some friends, 1st, That God shall make Scotland a desolation. 2dly, There should be a remnant in the land whom God should spare and hide, 3dly, They should ly 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 corps. 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 ”

“ The 26 Scots sufferers that were with him, having provided themselves with arms, and being designed to return to Scotland, being then such a noise of killing (and indeed the din was no greater than the deed) it being then in the heat of killing time, in the end of February 1685, when at exercise at night in the bark, he said, Lord, thou knowest thir lads are hot spirited, lay an arrest upon them that they may not appear; their time is not yet, tho Monmouth and Argyll be coming, they'll work no deliverance. ”

“ The man keeping fast her hand, he said, you will not take my advice, but it will tend to thy disgrace. After marriage, when praying he said, Good Lord, many a plow hath been yoked on the back of thy church in Scotland, pagans yoked theirs, Antichrist yoked his, and Prelacy hers, and now the plagued Erastian indulged, they have yoked theirs, & ill it becomes them; good Lord, cut their theets, that their swingle-trees may fall to the ground. Ensign John Kirkland was witness to this sermon & marriage ”

“ Vernor's house, where several of our Scots sufferers were; he said. Why are ye so discouraged? I know ye've got ill news of the dreadful murder of our friends in Scotland but I will tell you good news, that unhappy, treacherous, leacherous man, who has made the Lord's people in Scotland tremble these years by gone has got his last glut in a lordly dish from his brother and he is lying with his tongue cold in his mouth. I hear news of this came not to Ireland, for 24 hours thereafter. ”

“ James Cubison of Paluchbeaties, my informer, to whom he told this, he said to him, Sir, you did well to be parted with them, seeing you were persuaded they would fall and flee before the enemy. Glory, glory to God that he sent me not to hell immediately, for I should have stayed with them, tho' I should have been cut all in pieces
4. That night the Lord's people fell & fled before the enemy at Pentland hills, he was in a friend's house in Carrick, sixty miles from Edinburgh ”

“ He replied, there are more dark weary days to come, when your pulpits will be full of presbyterian ministers, and it will turn that dark upon you, that many shall not know what to do, whether to hear or forbear; and they shall then be reckoned happy that wan well thro at Pentland, Bothwel, & Airdsmoss, and wan fairly off the stage, and got martyrdom for Christ; for the ministers will cut off many of the most serious and zealous godly at the web's end; but I will be hid in a grave. They enquired, What will become of the testimony of the church of Scotland ”

“ And, as John told me with the tear in his eye, the pain of his head, and the indisposition of his body quite left him, and he started up & ran with the rest. The enemies seeing them, pursued them hard, sometimes the horse, and sometimes the foot being near them; mossy boggish ground did cast about the horses. After they had run some considerable way, they got some little height between the enemy & them; he stood still and said, Let us pray here; for if the Lord hear not our prayers, and save us, we are dead men, & our blood will run like water ”

“ George, Now, Argyll is in the enemies hands and gone; tho he was many miles distant. I had this account from some of these his bairns, who were present; and the last from Mr. George Barclay's self.
39. After this, he was to preach at night at Pengaroch in Carrick; the mistress of the house was too open minded to a woman, who went and told the enemy, and came back to the house that she might not be suspected; Mr, Peden being in the fields, came in haste to the door, and called the mistress, and said, Ye've played a bonny sport to yourself, by being so loose tongued ”

“ Peden's words would not fall to the ground, and fearing that some mischief might befal him for being in the said Hugh's company, the rode hard home. Robert went to his own house, and Hugh to the earl's house, and casting off his boots, he was struck with such a sickness and pain thro' his body, with his mouth so wide, and his tongue hanging so far out in a fearful manner, they sent for the said Robert, being used to take blood, he got some blood of him but all in vain, he died before mid-night. ”

“ In the same year 1685, preaching in the night time in a barn at Carrick, upon that text, Psal. lxviii 1,2 '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 tossed and driven as smoke or chaff by the wind of God's vengeance, while on earth ”

“ Mr Samuel Clark, gives another instance of a Christian Jew in Italy, who after the popish party had murthered him, laid his corps in the open street of the city, prohibiting all to bury him, where he lay nine days, and instead of stink, they had a sweet charming smell, which induced many people to stand and wonder; which when the enemies found the sweet smell themselves, they caused take them up and bury them. ”

“ But notwithstanding of all this, I'll tell you good news, keep in mind this year, month and day, & remember that I told you, that the enemies have got a shot beneath their right wing, and they may rise and fly like a shot bird but e'er this day seven years, the strongest of them all shall fall. ”

“ The foresaid John Muirhead, and John Waddel and others of our Scots sufferers, who had heard him preach the sabbath day before, concluded, this was the shot beneath the right wing that he spoke of, Charles II. being dead the Friday's night before. ”

“ Being in this strait, he said to Robert Wark, an old worthy christian worthy of credit, Robert, go and take such a man with you, & the first bark ye can find, compel them, for they will be like the dogs in Egypt, no one of them will move their tongue against you ”

“ George Johnston: these took their turn in the yard, where the prisoners were, together with a letter that was sent from that Erastian meeting of ministers, met at Edinburgh in August 1679, for the accepting of a third indulgence with a cautionary bond. Notwithstanding of the enemies promise, and the unhappy advices of these ministers not indulged, after they were ensnared in this foul compliance, banished 255, whereof 203 perished in the Orkney sea. This foul step, as some of them told me, both in their life, and when dying, lay heavy upon them all their days ”