254 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX.

' sword thou shalt be plagued; yea, thou Haddington, ' in special, strangers shall possess thee, and you the 'present inhabitants shall eith.er in bondage serve ' your enemies or else ye shall be chased from your

• own habitation, and that because ye have not Imown,
• nor will not know, the time of God's merciful visita-

'tion." In such vehemency, and threatenings con- ' tinned that servant of God near an hour and a half, ' in the which he declared all the plagues that ensued, ' as plainly as after ' (afterwards) ' our eyes saw them

• performed. In the end he said, " I have forgotten
• myself and the matter that I should have entreated;

' but let these my last words as concerning public

• preaching, remain in your minds, tiU that God send

' you new comfort." Thereafter he made a short

• paraphase upon the Second Table of the Law, with

' an exhortation to patience, to the fear of God, and ' unto the works of mercy ; and so put end, as it ' were, making his last testament.' * The same night on "Wishart's departing from Had- dington, * he took his good night, as it were forever of ' all his acquaintance,' says Knox, ' especially from

• Works of Knox, i. pp. 137-8.