y, came Mr Samuel Rutherford, who, among other things, said,
'The day, I hope, is dawning, and breaking in your soul, that shall never,
have an end.' He said, 'It is not broken yet; but though I walk in
darkness and see no light, yet I will trust in the name of the Lord and
stay upon my God!' Mr Samuel said, 'Would not Christ be a welcome guest to
you?' He answered, 'Welcome! the welcomest guest that ever I saw.' He said
further, 'Doth not your soul love Christ above all things?' He answered,
'I love him heartily: who ever knew any thing of him but would love him!'

"Mr James Wilson going to pray, asked 'What petitions he would have him to
put up for him?' He said, 'For more of himself, and strength to carry me
through the dark valley.'

"Saturday night he became weaker, and inclined to drowsiness and sleeping,
and was discerned in his drowsiness a little to rave; yet being till the
last half hour in his full and perfect senses, and having taken a little
jelly and drink, about half an hour before his death he spake as sensibly
betwixt as ever, and blessed some persons that morning with very spiritual
and heavenly expressions. About seven or eight of the clock his drowsiness
encreased, and he was overheard in it speaking (after he had spoken more
imperfectly some words before) those words, 'Glory! Glory! a seeing of
God! a seeing of God! I hope it shall be for his glory!' After he had
taken a little refreshment of jelly, and a little drink through a reed, he
said that the giving him these things made him drowsy; and a little
afterwards, 'There is a great drowsiness on me, I know not how it comes.'

"His wife seeing the time draw near, spake to him and said, 'The time of
your relief is now near, and hard at hand.' He answered, 'I long for that
time. O! happy they that are there.' This was the last word he was heard
sensibly to speak. Mr Frederick Carmichael being there, they went to
prayer, expecting death so suddenly. In the midst of prayer he left his
rattling(9) and the pangs and fetches of death begin thence, his senses
went away. Whereupon they rose from prayer, and beheld till, in a very
gentle manner, the pins of his tabernacle were loosed.

"He said (_supra_) 'Say not over good,' because he thought she wronged him
so far in wishing the contrary of what he longed for.

"Mr Carmichael said, 'You have been very faithful, and the Lord has
honoured you to do him very much service, and now you are to get your
reward.