God made the application

Wed 19 May 1784: I crossed over the pleasant and fertile county of Fife to Melville House, the grand and beautiful seat of Lord Leven. He was not at home, being gone to Edinburgh as the King’s Commissioner. But the Countess was with two of her daughters and both her sons-in-law. At their desire, I preached in the evening, on ‘It is appointed unto man once to die.’ And I believe God made the application.