risk another public gathering to hear Wishart preach. Bewildered, Knox observed the anguish of his mentor, recalling his frequent foretelling of “the shortness of the time he had to travail, and his death, the day whereof he said approached nearer than any would believe.”16 Ordering Knox to hand over the broadsword he carried in the preacher’s defense, Wishart “held comfortable conversation on the death of God’s chosen children,” led his followers in singing Psalm 51, expressed his desire that “God