n hence to the enjoyment of the inheritance reserved in the heavens
for them, and the Spirit called him by death, as the voice did John the
divine, Rev. iv. 1, "Come up hither."

He was buried in the churchyard of Govan, where Mr. Patrick
Gillespie,(116) then principal of the university of Glasgow, at his own
proper charges, (as I am credibly informed,) caused a monument(117) to be
erected for him, on which there is to this day the following inscription
in Latin:

HIC SITVS EST MR. HVGO BINNINGVS,
VIR PIETATE, FACVNDIA, DOCTRINA
CLARVS, PHILOLOGVS, PHILOSOPHVS,
THEOLOGVS PRSAE, PRAECO
DENIQVE EVANGELII FIDELIS ET
EXIMIVS, QVI E MEDIO RERVM CVRSV
SVBLATVS, ANNO AETATIS 26, DOM
AVTEM 1653. MVTAVIT PATRIAM NON
SOCIETEM, EO QVOD VIVVS CVM
DEO AMBVLAVIT, ET SI QVID VLTRA
INQVIRAS CAETERA SILEO, CVM NEC
TV NEC MARMOR HOC
CAPIAT

He left behind him a disconsolate widow, and an only son, called John
after the grandfather, to whom the grandfather at his death had left the
estate of Dalvennan,(118) but John having been engaged in the insurrection
at Bothwell bridge, anno 1679, it was forfeited, and he continued
dispossessed of it till the year 1690, when, by the 18th act of parliament
in the said year, the forfeitures and fines past since the year 1665, to
the 5th day of November, 1688, were rescinded.(119) His widow was
afterwards married to one Mr. James Gordon,(120) a presbyterian minister
for some time in the kingdom of Ireland. She lived to a great age, and
died in the year 1694, at Paisley in the shire of Renfrew, about four or
five miles from Govan; which, when the people of that parish heard, the
savoury memory they still had of their worthy pastor, made them to desire
the friends of the defunct, to allow them to give her a decent and
honourable burial, beside her deceased husband, undertaking to defray all
the charges of the funeral, which was done accordingly. And to this day
Mr. Binning is mentioned among them with particular veneration. He was
succeeded by Mr David Vetch,(121) who likewise died young.

Before I conclude this Relation, it is proper I give some account of his
writings. The books published at different times under his name, which are
contained in this volume, are all posthumous. Wherefore it will not be
strange, if the reader shall meet with some passages in them that are less
perfect and complete, since he did not intend them for the press, and that
they want those finishing strokes, which suc