of him in his last days by James Melville: “I heard him teach the prophecies of Daniel that summer and the winter following. In the opening of his text he was moderate for the space of half an hour; but when he entered on the application he made me so to shiver (Scottice, ‘qrue’) and tremble that I could not hold my pen to write. He was very weak, but before he had done with his sermon he was so active and vigourous that it seemed as if he would knock the pulpit in pieces (Scottice, ‘ding the pulpit