not cease to preach, even though he had to be lifted into the pulpit.  In the fall of that year he returned to Edinburgh. On November 24, 1572, he bid a "last good night" to the deacons and elders of St. Gile; he offered up a prayer for the "troubled Kirk"; and as a last request, he asked his wife to read  the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians, "where I first cast my anchor." He was buried at the churchyard of St. Giles.