THE
LIFE and PROPHECIES- OF
Mr. Donald Cargill, SOMETIME MINISTER IN THE BARONY PARISH OF GLASGOW : Who suffered Martyrdom for the Lord's Cause, with four others, at the Cross of Edinburgh the 27th. July. IfiSl, and had their heads pul upon the Ports. Beinp singular for Piety, Zeal and Faithfulness; but especially for his foretelling lulure Event.- that were to befal Scotland in general, and private Families in pirticular: Such as. The untimely and fearful Deaths of those cruel Persecutors whom he had excommuni- cated at the Torwood. Likewise, An account of his Indictment. Trial, Sentence, and Behaviour at the place of Execu;io»: with his last Words upon the Scaffold, before he suffered. ALSO, A particular account, of the great Scarcity and Dearth which took place at that time, whi n many died from want, and bad Provisions; and when tile Meal was as high as Two Shillings and S'.vpence the Peck. To which is added, A Short Account of the Life and untimely Dc&t,h of Argyll who gave his Casting-Vote against Mr. Cargill. Also, V Copy of the 7 orwood Excommunication.
By PETER WALK Eli, ^ WHO WAS HIMSELF A SUFFERER IN THOSE DAYS.
f a l k i r PRINTED AND SOLD BY T. JOHNSTON,
1823.
THE
Life and Prophecies
OF
Me. DONALD CARGILL.
.
MR DON \LD C ARGILL w^s the eldest son of' a singularly godly gentleman, and heritor in the parish of ilatterv. some miles from Dunkeld. After he had passed his courses of learning ct Aberdeen, he was established Minister in the Oarony parish of Glasgow, before and at the unhappy restoration of Charle/dia Second. May 2:>. 1660; and was publicly murdered at the Cross of E lidburgh, July 27 1681," before many w-tnessea, in that never-to-be-forgotten, unheard-of 2-' year: of reigning tyrants, and raging tyranny of Prelaticil Protestants upon Presbyterian Protestants.
It is a loss that I cannot give an account how long he was fixed minister in I heforesaid parish; only jt is certain, it was before and at the unhappy ll'storatioo, when hell! Rome, and all their proselytes and favourites had their invent! *n upon the rack, in their wicked, crafty counsels, ^ how 4 hov: to stop am] overturn our "real covenaitted work of reformation, wherein the right hand of die Lord that does ever valiantly, was and is remarkable to be seen in the beginning arvd carrying on, through ail the periods of tins Church not only from Paganism and Popery, b tt, also abjuring of Prelacy, both in the last articles of the National Covenant : but more expressly in the seoond article of the Solemn League and Covenant betwixt the three nations; wherein aU ranks were and are solemnly and perpetually bound, in their places and stations, to extirpate that old strumpet mother, and eldest beautiful daughter of Antichrist, with which the blind nations have been and ere sadly bewitched : but vile vile, loath- some and hateful in the eyes of all the zealous, serious, godly ia Scotland, ever since the Lord made light to arise to see her aboirnnotron*. And it hath been, is, and may be confirming and comforting to all the Lord’s people, tit-it our reformation, in ail the steps thereof, hath been of and for the Lord, in that he raised up and continued such a succession of earnest contenders, and faithful witnesses through so many ages, that none have ex- ceeded them since the apostles went off the stage.
According!;’, the Popish, Preir.tica’, and malignant faction, enemies of God and godliness, began their undern hung work (in the year 1650) of our covenaated reformation, that hod ficusished ia a wonderful manner from 1633, eleven verms hi their public Resolutions, as they were thru called, in getting all places of power and trust filled with men of wicked am! corrupt princip'es. an -l practices to make way for their getting their chi« f head, Charles If. upon tbs throne of Britain, which proved effectual, and got their hellish designs accom- plished; which was foreseen, foretold and contended against by a handful of worthy ministers and Christians, in these days called Protest ore or Remonstrators I hen Cromwell "the English general was called home with his ten thousand men, who came to Scotland in the end ofjulv 1650. to arraign the Duke of Hamilton and many debauchees with him, for inva. ing their kikgdom in the year IfifS. (which was faithfully witnessed against), and hinder;r.c their kipg from complying, with the Par* Parliament’* demand?. la t!iat ten year* that they invaded our land, they defiled it with blood, tolerations, and other abominations, which were faithfully witnessed against by a few of this land. Next, there were so many in State ■ id Ciiurch chosen to go to Breda, to transact, with and bring home their king, whom many ol>ail rank'; were, and continue to this day, lusting after tlut unhappy race: notwithstanding he had got a dispensation from the Pope to co-ne under our Covenants; and it was known, that both he and bis father had signed many articles to Popish princes, to carry on Home's interest; which a gentleman that writes upon Court-affairs at that time, mixes abundantly plain to the world. Of the Com- missioners sent fro::; Sco.fmd, fannus sir. John Living-, stone was one. contrary to nig inclination; which, as ho says in his Memoirs, he saw, and was fuily pert-usded, that there was nothimr in ad their transactions but the height of treachery and perfidy, that a little time would discover, and was unwilling to sail the seas with them. But after their k ng was gone a- shipboard, some, out of policy, pressed hi n to go aboard and take his leave of him; and, as soon as he went aboard, they sent oft'the boat, and so came hone fuily persuaded the plague of Cod was come to Scot law!; nevt rtheless of his dissemb- ling, deceitful, hypocritical, feigred-Hpped prayers in his closet, which was heard tip-ough the partition-wall, betwixt him and the Commissioners in the ship, praying aloud lor the advancement of the covenanted reformation in Scotland and for the peifbctiog of the work of uni- formly betwixt the three n;.liens according to thu^ so]emu vows in the Solemn League aud Covenant,
U.iiy, Many also of the godly at home saw clouds gathering, and a terrible b!< i k storm coming on, ^.bout this tune biest Messrs. .M- Vknrd, Cargill, and others,, who, were of one heart and soul seeing with one eye, think-, ing with one mind, and speUing with one breath, met at Glasgow to compare nous, and set a day apart for pr.iytr together, to be mete and, more confirmed pi- their duty of giving warping of the sin and danger of the malignant courses driven cn in that b? rraud gml force, especially calling fcotae their-fcead, C’^rb-s if. A Ward 6 Mr. M‘VVarJ was tae first that prlyei. vrhh marc than orduiary Enlargeisft*r
'fthiy, The next Sabb.th-day he preached at the Fallow-Mil, in the west end of Livingston parish, upon the borders of Clydesdale, In tne Pret .ce he said, I kn » I am and will be condemned by many for what I have done, in excommunicating these wicked men; but condemn me who will, I am approve;, of God, and am persuaded that what I have done on earth, is raiified in heaven: For if ever I know the mm of God and was clear in my call to any piece of ary generation-work. 8 it was in that; and I shall give you two signs whereby you may know that [ am in no delusion.
1. It sonio of these men do not find that sentence binding up»n them ere they go off the stage, and be obliged to confess it, from their terror, and to the affidghtment of others.
2. It these men die the ordinary death, of men, then God never sent me, nor spake by me.
d he first of these was cie s-y verified in the case of Lord Rothes; and the second was verified also, to the remembrance of many. 1. All know that G miles II. was poi.-oned. 2. His brother, the Duke of York, died in exile, in St. Germains in France, I know not how. 2. liie Duke of Monmouth was beheaded at London. 4. 1 he Duka of Lauderdale turned a belly gut and died upon the chatnoer box. 5. The Duke of Rothes died ra v- ing, under the dreadful terrors and sense of that sentence binding upon him, making his. bed shake, to t ie affright- nu nt of alt that heard and saw him fj. Bloody Sir George M'Kenzie died at London, with all the passages of his body running blood. 7. General Thomas Daiaiel of Binns, d'ed with a glass of n ine at. his mouth, in perfect health. Lut a more particular account of these afterwards.
^5thjy.. I gave an account in the life and death of Mr. Cameron, that upon the 18th day of July 1680 they, preached together at the Kfprig in Clydesdale-; which was Mr. Cameron s last Sabbath and were to meet and preach at Craigmad in Stirlingshire the first Sabbath of \ ugust, hut Mr. Cameron’s blood and otht r» ran like water on the £2u. July: Mr. Cargill preached on the 23th in the parish ct Shots, upon that text, Know you not, that there is a great man and Ih ince fallen in our Israel.” He preach- ed upon the 1st day of August at Craigmad, and 1 * tired upon the 22d chapter of Jeremiah, and ran the parallel in so maty part o.bars betw xt Copiah and Charles II. and in the end said. If toat unhappy m is upon the throne of Britain shall die the ordinary death of men and get the honour o' the biui-ii of kings, £nd u he shgil have any tu, succeed him, lawfully begotten, theft God never sent «te, nor spoke by me. Hie oid pious praying Mr Reid, late minister in Loehrutton. in Galloway, Mr. Shiels, and George Lapsiy who lived and died a; the Sowhead, heard him utter these expressions: They were all at London in the ticne that he was poisoned, who made all search to know when, where, or how ho was buried, but could never find it out. being buried clandestinely; and all know that he had.none to succeed him, although many said, and some write, That if all the women he lay with, in adultery and fornication, had conceived and brought forth, his offspring would have been as the stars in the firmament, spending his time only with wine and women, unconcerned about either heaven or hell, and easy about all religion. Not driving on Rome’s interest, as they expected, and he engaged when abroad with the Popish princes; his brother, the Duke ot York, being a sworn vassal to Antichrist, and longing to be at the throne, that he might be more active in all mischief, made them all conspire to give him a dose and send him ®fll The aforesaid friends at London said to me, That it was commonly reported, that when he found the poison working arpon him. he sat up in his bed, having one of his many whores in bed with hi-^.as was his ordinary, and tpofc a snuff; and it being poisoned al$o, he fell a-roaring and said, “ O madman that 1 have been, they have murdered my best subjects, and banished my son, the Duke of Mon- mouth, and committed myself to the hand of umrderersi’*
6thly, After that excmnnuaication in the Torwood, the fail account whereof is to be found in. the Hynd let Loose, written by famous Mr. Shields: After this there was a price of (1000 merits set upon his head, for any to catch him quick or derd. L'ha violent avowed, enemies were still in search of him before this, bnt more after, who, to gain the prize, had curst Doeg-like intelligencers every where lying-in-wait to betray him into their hands; notwithsianding he was, remarkably preserved, and many times narrowly escaped their hands, until his wpik waa done and his hour come; and then suddenly and suypris- ipgly was catched, as afterwards I shall make plain. Beside 10 Beside the narrow escapes mentioned in the relation given of him in the Cloud of Witnesses, there were other four as follows, 1. His horse was shot beneath him at Linlithgow bridge, and he very narrowly escaped their bloody hands. 2. At Loudon hill, which is before me to give an account of. 3. AttheQueensfer. y, June 3d 1680; when he, with Henry Hall of Haughhead, that worthy Christian gentleman, were upon their way from Borrows- tounness to the Queensferry, these two sons of Belial, the curates of Borrowstounness and Carriden, walking up»n the sea side, knew Mr. Cargill, and went in haste to Middleton, governor of Blackness, and informed him. He ordered his soldiers to come after him : he followed hard to the Ferry, and got notice where they lighted came in, and pretended great kindness, pressing them to take a jlass of wine, until his men came up; then drew his sword, saying,they were his prisoners. Haughhead drew his sword to defend themselves. The w'omen in the town gathered; one el them held Haughhead, to save him. One Thomas George, a waiter there, behind his back, struck him on the head with the doghead of his carabin, and broke his skull. * The women carried him off. and some of them supported him to Echien, near half a mile to the house ofllobert Phuntan, my brother in-law, who was banished with Mr. Peden. The house of Binns being near, Thomas Dalziei’s dwelling-place, (that bloody tyrant, who was general of the forces twenty years,) and he having got notice, came in great haste and fury, threatning great ruin to that family for taking in the rebel; and carried him back to the Ferry, and kept him all night. There is an old Chris- tian wom.jn (yet alive) who waited upon him ail night, which was a weary night, he not being able to speak to her. passing all his brains at his nostrils, and died next morning by the way going to Edinburgh. None can give an account how they disposed on his corpse.
Mr. Cargill in that confusion escaped sorely wounded, and crept into some secret place in the south side of the town. A very ordinary woman found him lying bleeding, took her head- clothes and tied up his wounds in his head, s»nd conducted him to James Phunton’s in Carlowrie; he being a stranger, and knew not who were friends or foes; 11 for which he said he was many times obliged to pray for that woman. Some say, after that there was a change upon her to the better He lay in that barn till night, and then was conducted to some friend’s house. Mrs. Punton gave him some warm milk; and a Chirurgeon came providentially to the house, who dressed his wounds.
General Dalziel came and called for James Punton, and took him away to Kirklistoun: When set down, the curator there, (another of the serpent’s brood, who in- formed him) came and accused him before the general for shewing kindness to such a notorious rebel, for which lie was carried to Edinburgh, and east in prison, where he lay three months, and paid a thousand merks of fine.
Mr. Cargill, the next Sabbath, preached at Cairnhil], betwixt Loudon and Tweeddale.in his wounds and bioed; for no danger nor distress could stop him in going about doing good, and distributing food to so many starving souls up and down the land, his time being short, that so he might finish his course with joy. He preached that day upon that text, And ■what shall I say, for the time tvould fail me. to speak of Gideon and Jephthae. At night some said to him, we think, Sir, praying and preaching go best with you when your danger and distress is greatest. He said, it had been so; and he hoped that it would be «o, that the more that enemies and all others did thrust that he might fall, the more sensibly and more discernably the Lord had helped: And then, (as his ordinary was) as it had been to himself, repeated the following words. The Lord is my strength and song, and has become my salvation. That cxviii Psalm was the last Psalm he sung on earth, which he sang on the scaffold.
7thly, In the beginning of Novembrr 1680, governor Middleton being frustrated of his design at the Queens- ferry, and affronted by a few women, delivering the prey out of his and his soldiers’ hands, consulted with James Henderson in Ferry, and laid down a hell-deep plot and trap to catch him, by forging and signing by different hands in the name of Baillie Adam in C’ulross. and Robert Stark in Milns of Forth, that serious zealous solid Christian, who who hfld his grent share of the tyranny of that time,' ahi other honest leading men in the shire of Fife, for Hender- son to come to Edinburgh, and make all search for Mr. Cargill, to call him over to Fife, to preach at the hill of Baith : Accordingly he found him in the West-Bovr, in a chamber that the foresaid Robert Stark had taken f Sthly, After this remarkable esoape,seeingrirtthLng but the violent flames of treacherv and tyranny against him above all others, he alone keeping up the public standard of the gospel at that time went to England for about three months, where the Lord blest Ins labours in the mini- 13 ministry to the conviction and edification of many poor souls. In this non such, melancholy, Egyptian darkness. Mr. Kinp, Mr. Kid, and Mr. Cameron, being publicly- murdered; Mr. Blackadder, and Mr Dicksen, in the enemies’ hands; Messrs. Cargill, Douglas and Hepburn gone off the kingdom; the rest of the thirty Ministers whe preached in the fields before Both well bridge, being fallen in deep silence and compliance with the enemy; in this time, while men slept, the enemy sowed his tares. In the beginning of the year 1681. the devil began a new project at Borrowstounness : John Gibb, a sailor, and a great professor, (nut many were jealous of him) drew away after him about twenty-six women and three men, the greater part of whom were serious, exercised, tender, zealous, and very gracious souls; who stumbled upon that stumbling block laid in their way, of m nisters' compliance, silence and unfaithfulness, who before the break of Bothwell-bridge, for about eleven years, had publicly preached the indispensible duty of all the Lord’s people to follow the gospel und defend the same. But a tittle thereafter the enemy gave an indemnity, or third indulgence to all ministers who formerly preached in the fields, to preach in houses with the Cautionary Band, wit- nessed against in The Banders Disbanded. They so far complied with the enemy's design and desire to have their Pt ndezvous of K hellion, the field-conventicles (as then Cp,'.e^ s grand eye-sore, and great vexation to a i his iriends. the toes of reformation, that they would pieach none without houses, even those who formerly7 were most zealous and forward that way, whose names ro.ght oe mentioned, and who would not set their faces to doors, when there were any people without. These lami ntable things, together with the cruel tyranny, shed- mg so much innocent, precious, denr blood, made them split with zeal, not omy to cast off all that did not agree with tnem in every thing; but also to utter strange Inti- gospel imprecatmns, disdiuningund teproaching all others as backsliders, stating their testimony against all crewn- dues, excise- and customs; and for that end would make no use o.X * aleI nor tooaccoi and oilier f'oolwh* things."" ev ct 1 La Tluse11; cl people atfiist. were commonly calls d S- cet Singers, from B their 14 their frequently meeting together, and singing these tear« ful Psalms over, the mournful case of the church Psalms Tt. 79 80 83 137. Thus they continued from the be- ginning of the year until \pril; then all with one consent, that they might be free from all these foresaid things, left theirhouses. warm soft bedsk covered tables; some of them their husbands, and children weeping upon them to stay with them; some women taking their sucking children in their arms to desart places, to be free from all snares and sins, and communion with all-others, and mourn for their own sins the land’s tyranny and defections, and there to be sate from the land’s ut ter ruin and desolation by judge- ments ; some of them going to Pent land-hills, with a re-^ solution to sit there, to see the smoke and utter ruin ot the sinful, bloody city of Edinburgh : but if they had fulfilled their resolution, they would have been sadly disappointed these 48 years, having but lately died; laying more weight and stress upon their duties of pra) er, fasting and mourning, than upon Christs satisfaction, obedience and intercession; which, alas! that legal and formal spirit is the plague and ruin of the greater P:;rt J0' preachers and prayers at this day, and is ruining m Ue churches. These were a part of the confession of fome of these gracious women who came under the power ot such delusions, voluntarily, before a great multitude of people, on the 3d day of March. 1681. at the back hnl of Lesmahago. and matter of mourning to this day. Immediately after they came to ihese desart places they kept a day of fasting, and confessing of their sms one to another; yea, some of them confest sn s toe wor i a pot heard of, and so not called to confess them to men. In the meantime of their lying in this sad pmkle m desart places, the man of God, blest Cargi , came o\ from England; a happv tryst to many godly, zealous souls, who had a gale of zeal upon meir sjuru.. an f, ared nodangeron the right hand, if they held oft the le.t. Im nediately he was caile i to preach m D^mai.c.muii s, b» 'Ome who retained their former zeal an; ai ' That Sabbath-morning, John Gibb DaviuJ unie, a. r Ker John Young, and twenty-six women were J>ing m the Deer-slunk, in midst of a great flow moss, netwixt 15 Clvdesda’e and Lothian about a mile distant. Mr. C ir»ill sent two men. wnose names l cauld mention, to desire the n to come and hear ser non and that he might con- verse with them, several of them being his acquaintances. John Gibb answered. He had left the land, and deserted the testimony; they did not want him nor any other minister : it was never better with them, than since ttiey parted with ail of them. He eame and stood on a chair, and had nothing to rest upon with his Bible betwixt his hands, as his ordinary was at all times when I heard him. 1 well remember, he sang the first verse of the Psalm, For evil-doers fret thou not, &c. and lectured upon the 21st chapter of 1st Kings, from the 17th verse, of what passed betwixt Ahab and Eiijih, and Ahab’s outward humiliation ; where he had many sententious notes: And preached upon that text, Amos iv. 12. Fherefore this will I do unto thee, O Israel! And because I will do this unity ihtT prepare to m'et thy God, O Israel! He insisted upon the foregoing judgements that had proven ineffectual, and few had returned untolum but this was a nameless judge- ment, or a non-such stroke. He went to DarhgavelJ, in Camousaethen parish, upon ttie side of the muir. He sent for them next day; when they came they had a long reasoning m the barn; the sum and substance ofit is to be found in that letter he sent to the women in the Correc- tion-house, which is published in the Gloud of Witnesses. Two things they required of him, before tliey could join and own him as their minister. 1. That he would confess publicly his sin in leaving of the land. 2. That he would engage to preash to none lull them, and those that joined with them He answered, That he did not see that to be sin in leaving the land in such a time, and so short a time, in his circumstances; and he hoped that he had been useful to not a few where he had been ; and to preach to none but them, was a dreadful restriction to his ministry; for his commission was far more extensive.to go and preach and baptise at! nations, and to preach the go.-vpel to every creature ; and if his trumpet would sounj to the ends of the earth, he would preach Christ to all. Gibb and Jamie carried pistols upon them, and threatned all that came to seek their wives or others from t hem, whichfrighted some. K 2 There Inere was a bed made for him and John Gib; be Jay down a little, but rose in haste, and went to the muir all m^'it. I well remember, it wok a cold easterly wet fog. Many waiting on to have his thoughts about them, he refused upon the Sabbath evening to give his thoughts, until he spake with them. They found him in the morn- ing wet and cold, and very melancholy, wanting rest all night, and great grief upon his spirit. They said Now,Sir, you have spoke with them, ami have had jour thoughts about them, be free with us. He said, My thoughts are both bad and sad: Tiiis man, John Gibb, is ao incarnate devil, and there are many devils in him t Wo to him, his name will stink while the world stands. I bless God, who preserved me; he might have cut my thrott this night, but I got warning of my danger. As for David Jamie, there is a good scholar lost, and a minister spilt; I have no hope of him. I am afraid that Walter Kerr and John Young and others will go a greater length, but 1 hope the Lord will reclaim many of them. And now go all home, ana pray that this snare may be broke; for this is one of the most dreadful and dangerous snares that hath been in my time; but they ran sefast they will soon discover themselves: but 1 greatly fear these wild tares of delu- sions and divisions will spring and grow, and never he rooted out in this land ; which has sadly come to pass. And thus, in preaching and conference, he was most sententious and plain in discovering and giving warning of the snare, sin and clanger of these wild extremes.— Nevertheless, the indulged, silent and unfaithful, luke- warm, complying ministers and professors made no dis- tinction betwixt him and Gibb, but made it their work, by tongue and pen, to bary him and his faithfulness in the ashes of these vile extremes; and as for anjr of us that travelled forty or fifty miles, far or near, to hear him preach, (and no danger or enemy could stop or discourage us), they spread that we were away with the Gibbites. although I never saw John Gibb, nor was acquaint with anv of his followers at that time: for which I bless the Lord, that so mercifully and remarkably prevented it, by heating and following of blest Cargill. After 17 After this, in the beginning of Miy, the Gillbites were all taken by a troop of Dragoons at the Wool-hill-craigs, betwixt Lothian and LVeed iale, a very desart place: I'ne enemies carried them to Edinburgh; the four men put in the Cmongate-tolbooth, and the twenty-six women in the Correction-house, and some of them scourged ; but, as their friends had money, they were all set at liberty'. The greater part of them cime to their right mind, alter tney had tasted of the bitter fruits of these delusions, with whom I have since had edifying conversation. The Dake of York being in Edinburgh, he and all other enemies rejoiced at all these strange things, and gave large money to thesefour men; for which they .vrots a most blasphemous paper to Yorke, cop es of which are yet in the hands of some. In a little time they were all liberate. Tliese four men. with Isabel Brown, and another woman, whose name 1 have forgot, went r, est to the Frost Moss, betwixt \irth and Stifling, where they burnt the Holy Bibles, as they had exclaimed against the Psalms in metre, and contents of the B ble, as human inventions. Every one ofthe niiad something to shv, when they threw their Bioles in the fire. Joon Gibb said, He did that out of despite against God. I'he night before that horrid actioi of burning the Bible, A'alter Eerr and John Young prayed all night in that moss,-and a light shining about them. Shortly after this vValter Kerr turned mad, and was for some time bound in forphichen. where he was born. He came to his right mind again, and went to Clyde, a mile beneath Lanark, to the house of Robert and Eiizuoetti Bruce, two old s»iid. serious Christians, both my acquaintances, who got a iuarty smack ofthe sweet- ness ofthe gospel, in »h B good da., at the Kirk of Shots, where he served two years, and deeply' mourned, both night and day, for what he had done; and wrote thirty- eight steps thereof. He sometimes said, if there were Christian vlagistrates in the land, lie would go to them and confess all, and seek of them to execute justice upon him tor ourning tire liio e. He told hi* master and mis- tress that ne would he taken and banished,which accord- ingly came to p , s in the year itido. And some of our •B J 1 iumsuyd rs tnaished (-.vl'.o were with him in Amerifa. and' came home) «ai(! to me, thathe exceeded all ourb mished, that they knew, in prevailing with some to set up the wor- sh'p ot Ciod in their families, and young ones to pray, and join in societies for prayer and conference. What became of him since, I know not. John Young went into Lothian cfter that, arid kept a school, lived retired, and spoke little. Gibb and David Jamie, Isabel Bonn, and that other, woman, were aga;n taken and put in the Canongate tolbooth where they took such fits of seven days fasting, that their voices were changed in their groanings and gollerings with pain of hunger, and then such excessive eating, that these with them admired how their btllits could contjin so much. Gibb was so possest with a raging roving devil that they could not get public worship performed three times a-day, as their ordinary was in each room. Two -f these prison- ers took their tour about, lying upon him witha napkin in his mouth. George Jackson, who thereafter suffered at the Gallowlee, Dec 9th. 168f, at first when be came there prisoner, said Is that his ordinary? They said it was. He said. I shall stay his roaring; and tlireatned Giob. He fell a-trr mbling, and put his own napkin in liis mourh. but could not refrain his roaring. Gforge desired them to halt in time of worship, and with feet and hands dash’d his head against the wall, and beat him so, that the rest were afraid that he had killed him outfight. Gibb was a big strong man, for which he was called meikie John Gibb. After this, whenever they began, he ran in behind the door, with his napkin in his mouth, and there sit howling like a dog. I had these accounts from the prisoners who were with him, when I was carried into that iron house, [mmedi itely after, John Gibb David Jamie, and,the foresaid two were sent to America, where Gibb was-much admjred by the heathen, for his familiar con- verse with the devil bodily and offering sacrifices to him. He died there about the year 172 ). David Jamie wrote a letter to his father in Linlithgow, where he was born, desiring him not to trouble himself about heaven or hell, for all these things were fancies, J jhn Smith, that serious, so’idl 19 solid Christian, who was fourteen years ba 'shed there, ( who died of late in the parish of Carstairs) carried th at letter, and delivered it to his father: When the good old man read it, he fainted. ButD iviti Jamie being a piece of a scholar, got him«elf into public clerking, and a few years- ago, was clerk in the town of New York in New England: I saw his name at Doctor Nicol’s commission here, for a public collection, for building of a church there. Tinas I have given a full and true account of the rise, steps, and monstrous lengths, and fHghrful end of tin se Gibbites; which may be a warning to the present and following ages, to tremble and be afraid of coming nmLr the power of such demented delirious delusions : ard whereby, all may see, th at the man of God (blest Cargiii) was not mistaken iu all that he did foresee and foretcl about them. Sthly, After that conf rcrce with the Gibbites at Darngavel the next Sabbath-day he preached two miles beneath Lanark; in the under bank-wood, on Clydeside, upon that text /have set watchmen upon thy Kails; where he lamented that it had been the great sin of the Church of Scotland, in setting up of watchmen that had little or no experience x>f regeneration, and hnd been overly ;n their trials, contenting themselves with a clatter of gifts and learning: ard lamented also, that so many watchmen were fled off the wails, and deserted their posts, frighted, as if they were blasted or thunder-slain. He stayed for Some time in that wood. Tn the beginning of ^iy, 1681 Gavin Wotherspoon and John Stewart, both my acquaintances, two serious, zealous Christians, and great sufferers, came unto him; the braes being steep, and the woods close, he enquired if there was any appearance of rain ? They said, they saw none. He said These braes look very burnt-like, * being a cold east drought. Gavin said. A'e fear, if the Lord send not rain, there will be a s«arcity of bread — He said, I have been thinking upon that since I came into this w,ood;, but, if 1 be not under a delusion, (for this 90 this was his ordinary way of speaking, when he gave h?s thoughts of what was to corae) vou need not fear that, as long as this persecution lasts; for the Lord hadh a greater respect to his own sutFering people, than to fcuffer such a rough wind to blow in such an east wind; for. if that wore, the i-eavy end of that stroke would come upon his own people : For me 1 am to die shortly, by the hand of this bloody enemy; but you that outlive this persecution a* I am of the mind you will both do (which they did both, and saw the sad accomplishment) you will see cleanness of teeth, and many a black pale face, which shall put many a thousand to their graves in Scotland with unheard of natures of fluxes and fevers, and otherwise; and there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. Mr. Peden did foresee and foretel the same things, but in his own peculiar way of expressing himself' saying, “ As lang os the lads i>re upon the hills, and in glens *nd caves you will have bannocks o’er night; but if once they Acre ben'-ath the bieW of this brae, you will have clean teeth, and inony a black and pale face in Scotland.” The sad accojnpIish»ient of these sayings will lamentably appear in these following instances. In the year 169L in the month of August, that crop got such a stroke in one night, by ea-t mist, or fog st nding like mountains, (and where it remained lonsrest and thickest, the bidder were the effects) which all our old men that had seen fiost, biasthg and mildewing, had never seen tile like. In November that winter, many were smitten with in ny sore fluxes, and strange ft vers (which carried many off the stage) of such a nature and manner, that our old physicians had never seen the like, and could make no help; tor all th ngs that used to be proper remedies, proved destructive: And this was not to he imputed to had unwholesome victual for several who had plenty of o;d victual did send to Glasgow for Irish meal, and yet w e sne, n with fluxes and fevers in a more violent ana infectious nature and manner than the poorest 1,- ‘ ■ in:.. 21 in the land, whose names, and places where they dwelt, I could instance. These unheard-of manifold judgements continued for seven years, not always alike but the seasons, summer and winter, so cold and barren, and the wonted beat of the sun so much witlvholden, that it was discernable on the cattle. ing fowls and insects decaying that seldom a fl' or gleg was to be seen • our harvests not in the ordinary months many shearing in November and De- cember yta, some in January and February ; and the names of the places I can instruct; many contracting thoir deaths, and losing the use of their feet and hands, shearing and working amongst it in frost and snow ; and, after all, some of it standing still, and rotting on the ground, and much of it for little use either to man or beast, and which had no taste or colour of meal. Meal became so scarce, that it was sold at Two Shillings a-peck, and many could not get it. It was not then with many, “ Where will we get silver?” But. “ Where wiH we get meal for silver?” I have seen, when the meal was all sold in the markets, woman clapping their hands, and tearing the clothes off their heads, crying “ How shall we go home and see our children die with hunger? They have got no meat these two days, and we have Bothing to gr.\ them.” Through the long continuance of these manifold judge- ments, deaths and burials were so many and common, that the living were wearied in the burying of the dead. I have seen corpses drawn in sleds, and manv neither got coffin nor winding-sheet. I was one of four who carried the corpse of a young woman a mile of way; and when we came to the grave, an honest poor man came and said, Ye must go and help me to bury my son, he h;ie lien dead these two days; otherwise I will be obliged to bury him in my own yard. We went, and there were eight of us had two miles to carry the corpse of that young man, many neighbours looking on us, but none to help us. I was credibly informed, that, in the north, two 22 two sisters, on a Monday’s morninff, were found carrying the corpse of their brotiier on a barrow with bearing- topes. resting themselves many times and none offering ts> help them. I have seen some walking about sun-setting, and next dav about six o’clock in a summer morning found dead in their houses, without making any stir at their death, their h.*.J lying upon their hand, with as great smell as if they had been four days dead, the mice or rata having eaten a great part of their hands and arms. M iny had cleanness of teeth in our cities, and want of bread in our borders: and to some the staff of bread was so utterly broken (which makes comolete famine) that altho' they eat, were neither satisfied nor nourished. An d so ne of them said to me. that they cou'-d m nd no* t • n; but meat, and were nothing bettered by it; and tnat they were utterly unconcerned about taeirsoufs, whether they went to heaven or hell. The nearer and sorer these plagues seized, the sader were their effects, that took away all natural and relative affections, so that husbands had no sympathy with their v. ives, nor wives with their husbands, parents with their children, nor children with their parents. These and other thines have made me to doubt if ever any of Adam’s race were in a more deplorable condition, their bodies and spirits mo'-e low. than matiy were in these years. The crowning plague of all these great and manifold plagues, was. that many w'ere cast down but few humbled; great murmuring but little mourning; many groaning Tinder the effects of wrath but few bad sight or sense of the causes of wrath, in turning to the Lord ; And as soon as these judgements were removed, many were lift up but few- thankful; even those who were as low as any, that outlived these scarce times, did as lightly esteem J>read as if they had never known the worth of in, but the want of it. The great part turned more and more gospel- proof and ju Igement-proof. and the success ofehe gospel took a stand at that timem many places of the land. King 23 King Williara’s kindness is not to be forgotten, who not only relieved us from tyranny, but had such a sym- pathy for Scotland when in distress of famine, that he offered all who would transport y:c?ual to Scotland that they might do it custom free, and have twenty-pence £ur each boll. I cannot pass this occasion of giving remarks on some observable providences thitfolloweu these strange judge- ments, ob persons who dwelt on low-lying fertile places, who laid themselves out to r-v.e markets, when at such a height, and had little sy mpathy with the poor, or those who lived in cold muinsh places, who thought those who lived in those fertile places had a little heaven : but soon thereafter their little heavens were tmm d into little hells, by unexpected providences. Some wrote sixteen remarks upon that terrible fire which fell out on the 2d or 3d of February. 1700. in the Parliament Close in Edinburgh. One wras, that most of those people who dwelt there, w ere rich, and lived sumptuously and had little sympathy with the distressed case of the land that their fine houses, which were eleven years in building, were in a few hours turned to a burnt, ruinous heap. But, more especially, th're was a farmer m the parish of We stCalder (in which parish SCO of COO txijme able persons died) who at that time was reckoned worth 6000 merks of money and goods, that had very little to spare to the poor; the victual lay spoiling in his house and yard, waiting for a greater price. Two honest servant-lasses, whose names were Nisbet, biing casi out ot service, (for every one could not have it, many ^aid, they got too much wages that got meat for work) these two lasses would not steal, and they wars ashamed to beg they crept into an empty house, and sat there wanting meat till their sight was almost gone; and then they went,%bout a mile of way. to that farmer’s yard, and cut four stocks of kail to save their lives : He hound them, and drave them before him to the Laird of Bawd, who was a Justice of Peace, that he might get them punished. The Laird enquired what moved them to go by so many yards and go to his? They said, these in their way wete in straits themselves, and he could best spare 24 spare them. The Laird said, Poor conscionabie things, go your way, I have nothing to say to you. One of them got service, and the other died in wantt It was her buiiai I mentioned before, who was buried by us four. But, lo! in a very few years, he and his were begging from door to door, whom I have served at my door, and to whom I said, “ Who should have pity and sympathy with you, whd kept your victual spoiling waiting for a greater pice, and would spare nothing of your fulness to the poor, and was so cruel to the two starving lasses, that you took prisoners for four stocks of kail to save their lives? You may read your sin in your judgement, if ye be not blind in the eyes of your soul, as ye are of one in your body, and may be a warning to all that come after you.” Many yet alive in that ceuntry-sidc, can witness the truth of ail these strange things. By these foregoing relations all may see, that these two servants ot Christ. Mr. Cargill and Mr. Peden, wrre clear sighted in what they did foresee and tell, which sadly and exactly came io pass about 13 years after blest Cargill’s bloody death: And in seeing'and foretelling such strange things, they were not alone in these days: The godly, and zealous, and faitl»'ul unto the death, Mr. John Biackaddtr, was at the Cowhill in the parish of Livingstone, in the year 1675, in the month of August: He went into the fiedds in the evening, being a retired place; when he came in, he was very melancholy: Some friends enquired what r- ide him so sad? He said, he was afraid of a very dangerous infectious mist to go through the land that night, that might have sad effects, of many deaths and great dearth to follow; and desired the family to close door and window, and keep them as long close as they might, and take notice where the mist stood thickest and longest, for there they would see the effects snidest; which they did; And it remained longest longest upon that town called the Craigs* being withim their sight, and only a.few fimiiies: ^nd within four months thereafter. 30 corpses went out of that place. And bad crops followed for three years; the meal was at half-a-crown the peck; But, lo! in the year 1673, there was such a crop, that the Lothian barley was sold at four pounds the boil, and the pease at forty pence: and for that we got ten thousand Highlaudcnj, five hundred English Dragoons the whole Militia oft the kingdom and all the standing forces cast in upoa the West of Scotland, at Bothweil-bridge: And. as they said, they came to destroy, and destroy, thay: would; and yet there was abundance for them all, and the inhabitants also. After Mr. Cargill left the Under-bank Wood, he preached at Loudoun hill upon a week-day, the 5th of May. He designed only to preach once, and baptize some children: His text was; No man that hath followed me in the regeneration » di be a loser, but great gainer.” In his conference lately with the Gibbites. finding so much of Peter’s religion among them that they had left all and followed him, made him to insist in shewing that, it was not every pre- tended way of following Christ he would cither re- gard or reward; holding forth the great danger and ruin to place so much, if not all, of religion in these external parts of Christianity, as prayers, fastings, and mournings, and contendings for the testimony: For sufLiings for the same, though they were duties, in themselves, yet, whoever rested upon them, would have a cauld coal to blow at in the end : Nothing is ours but sin. nor due to us but the wages of it. Death. In the application oi that sermon, he gave warning cf the snares and sins of the Gibbitrs and their actings, aud how dangerous it was to cast off all ministers: And exhorted us to pray for faithful ministers to ourse.ves, and never coEtfnt ourselves without them; Ipr for we would not continue long sound in the faith, and straight in the way, if we wanted faithful guides. And, for all the respect that these divided parties of dissenters, or rather schismaticks and separatists, pre- tend to Messrs. Cargill. Cameron, Shiels and Itenwick, to be their successors, and maintaining the. testimony which they sealed with their blood; how little do they notice the sententious writings and sayings of these worthies? And I am persuaded, if they were upon the stage this dav, that none would speak, preach, and write more against ail the divided parties of them, and their antiscriptural, wild, unprecedented prin- ciples and practices: And these that cast off all mini- eters this day in Scotland, if they had been living through all the periods of this church, would never have embraced any as their ministers, nor none in other churches this day through the world. It was one of the sententious sayings of the Rev. Mr. James Kirktoun, in his pulpit in Edinburgh, insisting upon Scotland’s singular mivileges above ail other churches for a long time. “ That there had been ministers in Scotland that had the gift of working miracles, and prophesying, which he could instruct; and that he had heard French, Dutch, English, Irish, and other ministers preach, and yet there have been and are ministers in Scotland that preach more from the heart, and to the heart than any that ever he heard.” And I have sometimes heard the worthy Mr. Shiels say, when he spoke of his travels through the world, That the ill of Scotland he found every-vvhere, but the good of Scotland he found nowhere.— V\ hen the sermon was ended and children baptized, there came up more children: Friends prest him to preach in the afternoon, contrary to his inclination; which he did, upon that text, (Veep not for me. When praying, there came a herd lad, crying. I he enemies are coming upon you! They had no sentinels out that day, which was not their ordinary: they were so 27 so surprised, that some that had been at Peni!.tn4, Hothwell an i Airdsmoss, and in other great dangers, were so se:zed veitti fear, that some ot the women threw their children from them; and Mr. Cargill, in the confusion, was running straight upon the enemy. Gavin vVitherspoon and other friends gripped him, and hauled him into the moss, to wlvch the people tied. Although the dragoons fired hard upon them there were none either killed or taken that day. A ball went through Patrick foreman’s hair, but his head was safe, his hour not being yet come, and that neither the time nor place he was to die. About this time some spoke to him, that he preached and prayed short; who said, “ O Sir, ’tis long betwixt meals, and we are in a starving condition, and it is good, sweet and wholesome which ye deliver; but why do yon straiten us so much for shortness ?” He said, “ Ever since I bowed a knee in good earnest to pray, I never durst pray and preach with my gifts; and where my heart is not affected, and comes not up with my mouth, I always thought it time for me to quit it: what conies nm from my heart, l have little hope ihat it will go to the heart of others.'’ Then repeated these sentences of the 51st. Psalm, “ Then will I teach transgressors thy way, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” VVheo was this then ? Just when he had the experience of the fortsaid things.— II all this were studied and practised, there would be fewer preachers, and snorter preachings, and fewer a.id shorter prayers among professors; they would not sleep and wake people, gasping and gollering, and few understanding what they are saying, as if they were to he heard for much speaking, or as if God could not, or would not hear them without they cry loud, and loving to hear themselves speak, and others to admire and adore them: Hut these who are long and loud in public for ordinary, will be seldom and G d short 28 shnn m secret: anci when they ire; they Vvill extend the:P 'voice, mat others may hear them' 'which is expressiy iorbijden : vVhen we enter ;nto our closets, we may hear ourselves, but no other. If that ioutl way of praying in secret had been practised by our sufferers is throng prisons, especially in Duhnotar-Castle, there would have been a frightlul confused noise amongst them and ex- posed them to the mockage of the world as mad-men. When he went from Loudoun hdl, he passed through the shire of Air, Garrick, and into (railoway, preaching, baptizing, and marrying, but staid a short time there.— When he left Galioway, ke said. Farewel. Galloway, for 1 wdll never come back to thee again: Thou art now Galloway, but thou wilt become a VVallaway, and I fear ■other shires in the south and west of Scotland will be little better. Mr. Peden had the same expressions. He came to Clydesdale, where he took most delight, and had greatest liberty in preaching and praying; and several other ministers at that time had the same. He designed to have preached at I'into-hill. but the Lady of St. John’s Kirk got notice, and wrote to some public men that he was to preach at Home’s Common, in toe back of Coulter-heights: Ho was that night in John Liddie’s, in Heldinire, near Tinto-hill: he went early in the Sab- b'th mprning to it, thinking to spend the morning alone; • but when he saw the people passing on, he called to some of them, and enquired where they were going? They’tohi him ; he said, That’s the Lady’s policy, to get us at some distance from inr house; but she will be discovered. He lectured that day upon the 6th of Isaiah ; upon which he had manv sententious sayings, I remember, 'from that word. fV/io)n shall I send? Attd-vsho will go ■forms'? He said, To speak with holy reverence, we sec that the Trinity of heaven may he at a stand, where to get a fit messedger to carry the message ; The prophet said, Here am /, send me. It is like, if he hid known * what he was to do, he wou.'d not have been so forward: Fur. if an haoest hearted minister might refuse any errand that 29 that God sent him, it would be to denounce judgments upon a people, especially spiritual; hut the hand of God was here. A.nd, when he got his commission to preach to that people and they grew more and more deaf and blind, he ciied out, [low long? And the answer was re- turned, Until the city he without inhabitants, and the lami utlcrlij desolate. After he insisted n little in explaining these words, he said, groaning deeply, If he knew any thing ot the mind of God. this is the commission that we are getting, and the commission that ministers will get, to preach the generation more and more deaf and blind. And preach who will, and pray who will, this deafness and thisbhndness shall remain until many habitable places »> Scotland b.; as wane and desolate as these mountains (looking to them with a very weary countenance.) But remember 1 am setting no time to tins we know not what spirits we are oi; a thousand yarn appear in his sight, as one any; and a delayed thing is neither forgot nor forgiven; and thelonger delayed, toe sorer when it comes. It will be the midnight cry, the foolish found asleep, and tuc wise slumbering, and will come upon you as a thunder-clap 1 He went on to tlie following verse, /e/ hi it will be a tenth, who shall bo as an Oak, which hath the substance in the root. And from tint he asserted, that, as the Lord had preserved a remnant through ull the periods of the Church, so he would preserve a rem- nant that would ride out ail these winter storms. lie preached upon these words in the forenoon, Be. net high-minded, but fear. His first note was, That these who know themselves best, would fear themselves most; aod that, as it was hard to determine what a length a hypocrite may go in the profession of religion, it was as hard to determine what a length a child of God may go in defection, having grace, but wanting the ertercis'.J thereot; and that a Christian at ht go through nine- teen trials, and carfy honestly in them, and fall in the twentieth. While in the body, Be not high-minded, but par. I am not speaking this of these wret ched creatures wo to them ! some of the n are nothing but devils, and many oi them are misled. For tha Lord’s sake look not ttO t-lL'SC. f mf»an .Fnhn riilih ami KJa ^r» r»r»-inir so The rozt S \l>b ith.-'Jay he preached at the BentTry- brid^s. betwixt Clydesdale and Lothian. He lectured in Zecherijh on Joshua standing before the Vngel: and preached in the forenoon upon these words- Gird thy sword upon thy thigh and ride prosperously. His first rcte was, That no sooner Christ became all and all to a soul, but the next wish of that soul is, O that he were thus to ali the world ! And let never none think that they are in a right exercise of true religion, that want zeal for God s public glory. And in the afternoon on these words. What luill ye do in the day of visitation ? Where iisUl ya'ii’jlce for help? And where will you leave ydur glory? Fronj that he said, What would all that knew not God, and obey not. the gospel do ? For he was comiag in ffuning fire, to take vengeance upon a!! such : And what would all wicked law-inventors, enactors, and executors dor And all in'ejuitous law-obejerj and keepers do? Where would they flee for help? And where will they leave their ill-gotten glory? From the Bendry-bridge he went to Fife, and baptized many children; and preached only one .Sabbath at the Xomond-hills, and hasted back to Clydesdale, and came to Benty rig. in Cambtlsnethen parish, where two friends were sent from the Societies in Galloway to call him back to preach and baptize there. After he enquired for their welfare and friends in Galloway, he said, Have your friends now in Galloway any thoughts or fears of the French or other foreigners, coming upon you? They said, Noi He rose and went out (being a desalt place) to a moss-hag, being the best chamber oft times that he, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Run-wick, and Mr. Shiels had in those days, who displayed the public banner of the gospel, after the defeat at Bothwell-bridge. U was but a short time tnat he staid in company and converse, these two Galloway men said to other friends, in that bounds, who were my very dear acquaintances, who told me, M hy does-the minister speir such a question at us. those friends said. Enquire at himself, for we find this is his ordinary wbh friends who have been any time out ot his company. VVnen he came in, they said. We have been 3t thinking on what you said to us. and we cannot under- stand what you mean by it. After musing a iittie (f<>r that was his ordinary, especially when they enquired any thing euncerning the times) he said, If I be not under a delusion (for this was his ordinary also, when he spoke of things to come) the French, and other foreigners, with wicked, unhappy men in this land, will be your stroke ; and it will come in such a nick of time, when one of these nations will not be in a capacity to help another; for me. I am to die shortly by the hands of these murderers, and will not see it- I know not how the Lord’s people will endure it that have it to meet with, but the fore- sight and the forethought of it makes me to tremble! And then, as his ordinary was, as it had been to himself, said, Snort but very sharp. There were two very young lads, who were my very dear billies, whose converse and prayer together have been very edifying to me and die remembrance cf it this day is stvoury, who lived in the Styrry-sliaw, was very rear the Benty rig where he wxs, Thomas and John Marshal, to whom he said, at that same time, Lads, ye have meikle need to pray in earnest you have a sharp storm to meet wiih and many strange faces to see and your bom s shall lie in a stiange land. This came to pass three years there ift‘ r, in December IGSL, about the same time that I fell into the enemies’ lianas: Meldrum that wicked persec«r,or, (whom the world hath heard o! ) apprehended them, and carried tnem to Glasgow.— Walter Gibson merchant there, got a gift of them and other twenty-eight, who starved and poisoned them with little and bad victuals, above all that ever I heard of that carried our banished to foreign lands; few of them in that ship lived any time in Carolina: Thomas died in a little time after their landing there; John lived for some time, and died there aisa. That which was the occasion of our banished being • carried to so many different places in tne world was, in, these days there were Scots regiments in France, Flanders, and Holland; and when their men decayed, officers 1 ^ —■—~—- - oS .'crs cam-? horn? seeking recruits; hearing of prisoners' that vyere under banishment, they got gifts of them from the wicked, bloody Counselors and carried them to these places. Then merchants, such as Gibson in Glasgqvr, and \f allodi in Euinbu gh, Pitlochie, a laird in Fife’ and many others, got gifts of them (and as the old saying is, Cocks are free of other folks corn.) who transported them to Carolina. New Jersey, Jamaica, and Barbadoes, to be their slaves; but none of them made their piack a bawbee with trading in such wares: which confirms what that singular Christian, James Clarkson, merchant in Linlithgow, whom the faresaid M.lioch got a gift of, witii other thirteen, said, when put on shipboard in the roads at Leith, to which I was a witness, \Ve are tae baddest. wares that ever Malioeh had in his mckshert; and d Maiioch, or any other t.hat trade in such wares, be ru t great losers. I am mistaken.” In that short time teat olcst Cargill had to run. lie ran fast on foot, having lost several horses in h's remark- able escapes. Where-ever he was called, at several times, ana to dilferent places oi the land when he sat down for rest, being old and weary, he took a look of the many gentlemens buildings, and said, Your lords, lairds, and gentlemen are making braw houses, and large pirks; but they may build at leisure, it will not ho long that many of them will possess their houses, which have been rests of wickedness and uncleanr.ess: They have dipt their bands in the persecution and deep compliance, but few of them have had a fur of land to spare for the intire^f of Christ, and it will go a worse gate, and their inherit- ances will vomit out their names. The accomplishment of this saying cannot pass the observation of any who see with half an eye, being so universal t \nd their own sad experience can testify, that since that time, being now forty- nine years since his death, more estates of hundreds of years standing, have changed masters, than did for a hundred years before, almost in all corners of the bind. Besides these lamentable holding reasons that he gave, several other reasons and occurrences have fallen since, to bring it to pass; such as, We always hear the name S3 name of the poor prjud S~ots through the world; an3, as our poverty incre-aseth. sour priUe, vanity prodigality and ambition grow of airy fool stilt^ and titles vVt were all once fairly ranked in our solemn National Covenants, all Noblemen, Gentlement Barons, Burgesses Mnisterfe, -and Commons of all ranks; but 'ince these Covenants were broken burnt, and cast by, as almanacks out of d ite, we were all gene out of rank and •‘file, the honour due to the superior is given to the interior, our goodman and goodwife is turned to Sir and Mistress, and our Sir -and Mistress is turned to Your Honour and M idam : Since the rebellion 1715, and since the stock-joabing a foolish haste to be rich hath made many poor; and many other ways and things, such as living above their stations and incomes, spending tfeeir money on gaming, wine and women, have brought tc to pass. There are some sentences in the end of our National Covenant that may strike terror to the hearts of all ranks; such as, “ We call the living God, the searcher of our hearts, to witness, who knowetb this to be our sincere desire and unfeigned resolution, as we thall answer to Jesus Christ, at the great day, and under the pains of God’s everlasting wrath, and of infamy and loss ef all honour and respect in this world/’ &c. The next Sabbath, after he went from the Bentyrig, he preached at Aoehingilloch, on the south side of Clydesdale, and then returned to Clyde 1 he week before he was taken, he was in the Lee-wood, where he married Robert Marshall of Starryshaw, brother to the Toresaid Thomas and John Marshall. After they were gone from him, Marion Couper, spouse to John Weir, who dwelt in the Mains of Lee. two solid Christians and sufferers in that time, brought his dinner to him in the wood: In the time thereof he said, What induced Robert to marry this woman ? I'his woman’s ill will overcome his good ; he will not keep the way long, his thriving days are done. Which sadly came to p iss in every jot. A little time thereafter he was taken and put in prison, fell in foul compliance with the enemies, went home and beard the Curates, apd-other steps of defection, and be- came cams lightly esteemed. This was the last marna*e he performed ; m which both he. Mr. Peden, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Renwick, took as little delight, as in any piece of their ministerial work, although they would neither dissuade or refuse, having such a deep concern upon their spirits, and looking upon it as an evidence of un- concernedness about the many grievous tilings in that day, and of such a tendency to increase their afflictions, borne of them shortly thereafter were taken, hanged, shot, and banished; their wives and children put from their houses, having no certain dwelling-place; all which I can instruct, some of all these being my acquaintance. When Marion was pressing him to eat, he said, Let alone’ I cannot be pressed; for I took not that meal of meat these thirty years, but what I could have taken as much when I rose as when I sat down. I had the happiness to hear blest Mr. Cargill preach h;s last public Sermon (for which, while I live, I desire to bless the Lord) in Dunsyre Common, betwixt Clydes- dale and Lothian; where he lectured on the first chapter of Jeremiah, and preached upon that soul-refreshing text, Isa. xxvi. two laT verses, Come, my people, enter into your chambers, See. \\ herein he was short, marrowy, and sententious, as his ordinary was in all his public Sermons and Prayers, with the greatest evidences of concerned- ness, exceeding all that ever I beard open a mouth, or saw open a Hi ole to preach the gospel, with the greatest indignation at th« unconcernedness of the hearers. He preached from experience, and went to the experience or ail that had any of the Lord’s gracious dealings with their souls. It came from bis heart, and went to the heart; as 1 have heard some of our common hearers sav, He spake as never man spake, for his words went through them — He insisted what kind of chambers of protection and safety these were: and exhorted us all earnestly to d well in the clifts of the rock, to hide ourselves in the wounds of Christ, and to wrap ourselves in the believinu- application of the promises, flowing therefrom; and to rn-ike our refuge under the shadow of his wings, until these sad calumnies pass over_ and the dove cotne back with 35 with the Olive leaf in h( r meuth. These were the last words of his last Sermon. Some time that night, having several miles to travel, not daring to leave that desait place until it was dark, for fear of enemies, it was contrary to his inclination to go that way, but the Lady of St. John’s Kirk was present, who had influence upon Mr. Smith and Mr. Boig, who prevailed with him Notwithstanding of her great profession, he was always jealous of her, and would nut go to her house; and several times ssid Whatever end she might make, there would be foul wide steps in her life. That Lady not only followed the persecuted gospel, but also frequented private s cietv.me tags, particularly with these two old singular Christians, Thomas Johnston, in Grangehall in Pettinain, and Francis Liverance, in Coventoun. -/ho were both my acquaintances. Site seve- ral tiit.es said to them and others that if ever she turned from the way of the Lord she knew not what she would make of these three Scriptures, viz. Heb. vi. Being ones enlightened &c. Heb. x. Sinning vcilfully &c. and that in 2 Pet. ii. It had been belter for them. &c. Yet. after that, when hard came to hard, in the two slaughter years of 1684-85, she turned so far out of the way, that she be- came a persecutor, and would suffer none to dwell in her land that would not hear the plagued Curates nor take the Oath of Abjuration. The two foresaid worthy Christians went together, to know what she made of the foresaid Scriptures, but she would give them no access, by causing the gates to be shut against them, it being about the middle of January, 1687.— Mr. Cargill went along with her thelength ofCovingtoun‘mi!l,to the house of \ndrew Fisher, and his'spo'.-e, ElLibeth Lindsay, my acquaintance, about a mite from her house, near Tinto-hill, but would go no further. James Irvine, of Bonshaw, who formerly made a trade of fine horses, of outfang and infang betwixt the king- doms, went to the Council and General Dalziel, and got a general commission, although he was no nfiieer. All then knew that the wickedest and vilest of men were then then employed; and where ever he was inhumed by the cursed intelligencers that any of the Lord’s suffering people were hiding, that the forces, foot and horse, were to ride and march at his command: Accordingly, that Sabbath-night, at the sun-setting, he mounted with a party of dragoons from Kilbride, and the next morning at the sun rising, he came to St.John’s Kirk, twenty miles, and searched that house narrowly ; then came to James Thome on’s, in the Muir-house, ami searched it. Many reflected upon the foresaid Lady, that she, only leaving these worthies a few hours before that, in the time they were searching her own house and that of James Thomson's, which took some time, did not send and advertise them, being only a mile distant. Next he came to Coving-tours-mill, and surrounded the house and chamber, two beds, being in it. where I have rested somq times since, where they were lying, and not fallen asleep. When he found them, he cried out, Oh blessed Bon. k awl and blessed the day that eves- he was born, that had found such a prize this morning. Tin's he did and said out of his great wickedness, and prospect of the rich reward that was set on the head of Mr. Cargill, to any that would apprehend him either quick or dead, being 6000 merks. They marched hard to Lanark, and put the prisoners in the Tolbooth, until the soldiers got meat and drink. They got h arses bmught them out in haste, and set them on their bare ht.cks Bonshaw, with his own hands, tied Mr (. largill’s feet below the horse’s belly very hard , he looked down to him and said. Why do you tie me so hard? Your wickedness is great, you null not long escape the just judgment of God; and, if I be not mistaken, it will seize upon you in this pkvce. They hasted to Glasgow, being sixteen miles, fearing the prisoners would be taken from them; for many of the Lord’s zealous people would willingly have ventured theirn// to have delivered their brethrendrawn untodeath, and those who were ready to be slain Prov. xxiv. 11. &c. But their taking being so surprising, and their march so hasty, they could not be convened, When they came near 37 near tta citv. tfipy trraod him irp^n the horse and lefi him backward; which made many to wet p. to see their old minister in that posture, he being for some yeara settled minister in the liarony Kirk and some wicked t» rejoice. 'Vhen they c :me to die tolbooih. they halted until the Magistrates came to rect ire them. John Nisbet, Bishop Paterson of Glasgow’s factor looking orer tl>G stair, out ofbis great wiekedness merrily sai l, Mr. Cargill, (three times over, in sport), In effect, wit) vou not give u» ©ne word more? This he said, because Mr Care ill, m public, sometimes said. In off ct we will say one word; or, 1 have one word more to say. Mr. Cargilhlooked to him. and with concernedness said. Wicked poor man, why do you mock ? Ere you die, you will desire one w ord and will not get it. Shortly thereafter he was struck dumb, his tongue swelling in his mouth, llobtrt Good win and John Hodge, two Glasgow men. who were witnesses to this and went to visit him lying in that case, told me this when in prison, in the years IGst-fco in the Cannong Ue of Edinburgh. Robert Goodwin desired him to write what stopt Imn from speaking and if he had a great desire to speak. He wrote, That it was a just judge- ment from the Lord, and the sayings of Mr. Cargill Verified upon him for hi mocking of him ; and if he had the w iole world he would give it for the use of his toague again But that he never get. Bonshaw basted to Edinburgh with his prisoners, srul when Mr. Cargill came before the Council, Chancellor Rothes raged against him being one ot the seven whom he had excommuoicuted at t.ie lorwood the preceding year, and g ve them over to their father the devil whose worss they did. and to whose service thee had devoted t),■ nse 1 Vi".. R ubes tbreatned him web extraordinary torture, and a violent death. He said, M> Loro Rothes for heal to threaten tae, for die whet death l may, yrnir eyes will not see it. And it it wdi know* to some vet alive, that he died that men i ,g that Mr Cargill, and fhcic worthies with him, sufL-red m the afternoon Shortly 38 Shortly after this appearance of Mr. Cargill before the Council. Rothes was seized with sickness and pairs { Ana when he found the pings of death turnin': sh^rp Upon him, he cried out for some of his wife’s ministers, (she being a favourer of the Presbyterian ministers) for his ministers were pood to live wit!), but not to die with. II e sent for old Mr John Carstairs, who with Mr George Johnston,came to him. Mr. Carstaiis dealt very faithfully ana freely with him rehearsing many wicked acta of his life: To whom he said, We a!l thought little of what that man did in excommunicating us; but J find that sentence b’nding on me now, and will bind to eternity. When Mr. Johnston was praying, several noblemen anti bishops being in the next room, some of them said to the bishops He is a Presbyterian minister that is prayirg ; the devil ane of you can pray as they do though your prayers would keep a soul out of hell. Rothes roaring so loud under horror of conscience, for his active wicked life in persecuting, made these noblemen leave him weeping. William Duke of Hamilton, said, We bini«h these men from us and yet when dy ing, vve call lor them. this is melancholy work! Mr. Cargill, and these martvrs murdered with him, got their indictment with sound of trumpet: When they ended their sound, he said, I hat’s a weary sound, hut the souna of the last trumpet will be a joyful sound to me, pnd all found having on Christs righteoushe»>, While in prison, a gentlewoman visiting him, told him sn eping, that the heaven daring enemies were contriving end proposing an extraordinary violent, deat-h fer him; some, a barrel with many pikes to roll him in ; others, an iron chair, for his body to r- ast and burn there. He said. Let you, nor none of the Lord’s people be trouoled for tirese things: for ail that they will get liberty to .to to me will be to knit me up, cut me down, and chop oft my old head; and uien fire them well, they have hone with mo, and I with them lor ever! W uen 39 Wh°a hp, and those with him, came to ^et their sen- tence of death their indictment- were read, wherein th y had their sentences, as thei^ common form then was viz. Having cast off all fear of Go 1. and acted so and so ; and therefore deserved to be punished so and so:" He said to the Cterh. Halt! and (pointing to the apostate Sir George Mackenzie, then King's Vdvocate) said. The min that has caused that paper to be arawn in that form, hath done it contrary to the light of,his own con- science: for he knows I have been, a fearer of God fro« my infancy ; but 1 say, the man that took the Holy Biole in his hand, and said, that it would never be well with the land till that book was destroyed, with many other wicked expressions and actions of his life; l say, he is the man that has cast off all fear of God. The Advocate etor ned at this, but did not deny the truth of it, knowing that he had thus expressed himseif, in some cf his wicked mad fits. There is yet alive an old reverend minister in the south of Scotland, who was witness to this, and can assert the truth of it : who several times since has said, that he admired the compotedaess and confidence of Mr. Cargill. While in prison, he hid v-ittrn more at large, though he was short, marrowy, and s.nuintious in preaching, praying, and writing, as mav be seen in his few public Letters, his last snort Si eo 1 i. and what he spoke upon the sear.ol i. published in the C oud of Witnesses, which I wish from my he rt - i t ajl the Lord's people would narrowly and serioi>ly peruse; they have been very use- ful and edin ing to me and many, at icrs. His more large p per was Uken from him, by the wicked, cursed keepers of that time . his simr.t speech left behind him he wrot* that morning beUro he suff red, before eight o’clock, when the doors were opened. He and these worthies murdered with him, got ihm'r sentence, of death the day before, when he uttered these admirable and very rare sentences viz. That that dav was toe most Joyful day in all his life; and that he had not been wunoui aa assurance of ins interest in Christ these 3 tttrty' tlrirtv yeirs. nor out of prisoner: snfl that'tie ntver Jur-t u>i.'iertafce to preach Christ and salvation to •tilers until he was sure of ins own. (Oh 1 if all our mini- sters had taken tms course, there had been less defection » sionjr hi. )< Vnd that it was long since he durst have venture 1 upon death and eternity, alfho’ death remained some vn it ternbie; but now the terror of it was taken •way: and by virtue of the mercies of God, and merits ci G tri«t. he had a conscience as quiet and culm as if fee never bad sinned. When he came to the scaffold and foot of the ladder, lie blessed the Lord with uplifted hands, that he was ■finis near the crown; and when setting his foot upon the ladder, to go up, he said, The Lord knows I go up this ladder with less fear, confusion, or perturbation of mind, thin ever l entered a pulpit to preach. He was fi St turned over. And as Mr. Smith did cleave to him in love and unity in life, so he died with his face trpon his breast. Next, Mr. Boig; and then William Cuthill, ahd Wiliium Thomson. Chcse five worthies hung all on one gibbet at the cross of Edinburgh, on th it never-to-be forgotten bloody dav, the 27t h. of July, 1831. The hangman haslred and hugged oiT all their heads with an axe. Mr. C.iredii’s, Mr. Smith’s, and Mr. !doig’-j heads were fixed upon the Nctherbow-port; William CtfthiH’s and William Thorr.p on’s upon the West Bori. The enemies got this great giut of blood the day before the down-sitting of Parliament wherein the Hake of YofU did preside as Commissioner. Tile wicked, cursed of God. and bated of all right- thinking men, Bm shuw. got not ids reward in 8000 m, rks tirl the next year in May the price of innocent blood, di ir blood, blood that cries both loud and long? How shall, or can the tyranny of shedding innocent hood, and defoctiuns Of all ranks in these days, be forgot? Shortly thereafter he came to L mavk, where he and one ot los cursed comrades fell a fighting; his corav ale thrust him through the bfldy with a sword, where Weird amt diit ran out. This MCtfMU i feau from sevetal w orthy persons, wh* 41 wlia were witnesses to hot’s t'ne tiireatnin Whose desires to he further informed of the life 3ik1 death of blest Mr. Cargil, may peruse the reiati ms that are given of hi n by Air. Shiels in the Hind Let Loose, and in the Cloud of Witnesses. His last testimony, and what he spake upon the sc mold, his narrowy sententious letter to several prisoners when under sentence of death, his letter to the Gib'oites in the correction-house, and his letter to his parish, yet in the hands of dome, are to be found in tne Cloud of Witnesses, A\ hen that blest singular Christian, zealous and faithful minister anil martyr, Mr. Carcii!, was first apprehended and hrougut before tire Council they were tierce arsl furious against him espeddly Chancellor Rothes; but those tlut were in Coun i!. aud heard wh it Mr. Cargill said to him, and saw and Deard what Rothes said uhea he was dying, roaring under horror of conscience and his bed shaking, put a fng ,t upon their -.pints, and drew tears from their eyes; which verified wfiat he said at the bahtphiil on tnc S ibb*»th att-. r the Eve r nmusication, 8s oetore related, an 1 made them tu pro nose in Council, d nat as he was old, and had done all the ill that lie ! Tyau,d t0 f t nii« go to the dissV uni be prisoner lucre during life, [t was put to the vote,and Argyll sa d, I " Let hm go to the gallows, and die like a Jruitor,” ^vinch cast tijs vote ijpon ir. u to die. i ue P trliam >nt sat down the day following. July 28th, Ib'Sl. wtiicn framed the curs: d I’est. with seven contra- dictory oaths in ii. which Irgvb took vAch explication, i us dw, not satisfy the Duke of Yoiklfcid otiters, looking upon lima with an ill eve, bees use of his father being qetive in our reformation. He was immediately clapt up |>,isonvr jn uis Castle, cut. o; which he escaped the S0t-1 4S t;)n, near Newcastle. After they were set down, Mr. li:t!cston said (n«t knowing Argyle. bsfing disguised in coarse clouths) [ licve received a letter just row from Scotlm.l that \rgyie has escaoed out of the Castle, of which I aan very glad, if it be certain, Mr. Veitcb said, fee doubted not the certainty of it. Tlsey insisted both at expressing their joy at the ne«> : VIrs. tiitlesron being present, said, I cannot be so much taken up with that news as you are; I know that the house of Vrgyle was a good house for our reformation, and ins father suffered for it; but, for himself, he hath bten a member of that wicked blood} Council these eighteen years, where many a wicked thing hath been acted and done; nut, above alf, it was his vote that took away the Ide of our worthy dear friend singular Mr. Cargill; and I nm sure ids blood may lie heavy on him now, and make him have a melancholy flight and hiding. Argyie made no reply. After they had got a drink, she conveyed them to different rooms. A little thereafter she went to \rgvle’s room, being the greatest str inger; he had laid down a fine waten and icght-cap on tlie table, which .' I not answer his clothes ; and wVen he had cast off his clothes the room was per- fumed. Site came quickly back to her husband, ami said, J am persu ided this is Argyie. He said. I ant of tne sum a mind. hut you are oft times o’er plain in your cli-eourse. She said No no; it is goo 1 speaking to him no v iu the day of his distress ; f we were once set dftwn to dinner £ s nil y-e more freedom. In the time thereof tbey came to speak oi his escape again ; She took the occasion and told til the ill tilings she heard about him. Ha said, \rgyle will not (ree himself of many of these tjiipgs. but he is not so guiltv of them all as the world reports him to ba. \tt -r this M . Veitch to'd them t l it it w'is Arj fle, and tint he was resolved for London. H * than put himself m another dress, but could not get a good horse. Mr. Sitleston gifted him his gelding, and aent his son John to convoy them, who gave me this account when Its returned. Argyle gave him a lutle purse 1 fMHie ftru? thirty gvineap in it: when he c*rne to lug fiithec, he gave the purse to him : hi# father suiJ, Johote$ if' I hai known this, vou shoufd not h*ve gone your toot* length with them; there is more here than any i*orse is worth. Mr. Ve.tch convoy etl him t * London. VVIaert Mr. Veitch ported with him, he slid (iiv“ mv love and service to all friends where we h ive been, especially to ray free-communin;; landlady Mrs. Bitleston. From t ut he went to Holland, and was abroad to the mi ld.e of May 1685. and then came to Inverary with so e men, and many notable arms. Monmouth came to England that same summer. After Argyle landed, one morning walking at the water-side ver\ sad. Mr. Thomas UrqaU 'it, who suffered in the Grass-Market that same stiw.mier. came to him, and said, l ana sorry to see your Lordship so inelancholy. He said, rlow can l he otherwise? i see f However, Argyle sot together above 1500 men and expected a great many more would have joined him in ♦rder to oppose the King and Council m their bloody cruelties can icdon in these days but he was disappointed; and after several unsuccessful attempts without ever coming to any total action and iiis o8i jets ^ 3» upon myspiritfdoubtnotbutherdeliverancewillcoma nre tobeaprophetyethavingstrongimpressionsthereof to hisLourchandpeople;tho’1willnottakeupon his work,but1desiretodieinthefaithofadeliverance t ieLordwouldnotli;nourmetobeinstrumentalia conpiUnces arenowsadaadgrievoustome;forthese , intHeC^stiehehadtheseremarkableexpr*s» His Lordship,whenbecame tothescSold,delivered Tie dy-ofMsexecution(80th.June,1585.)his U 45 TSik A'erl die noble E irl of Vreyle, a marti r n*f #T)^r fo ti ic Protestant K, *iut also btann^ his ifi«.t tt^ti* Biooy against Hre.acy as well as Popery. His too 41 at compliances wita tne managers pitvjous to th atl'i.r ©ftiie 1'est lay heavy upon Inm to the last; but notmog grieved him so much as the unhappy vott he gavf Against Mr. Cargill. THE TORWOOD-EXCOMMUNICATION, x September, 16S0. A FTER Sermon, noon Etiek. xxi. 25 27. 4kmt ■pittfane tuiekfd Prince of Isra'i,whose day in come Ac. bavins' madea short and pertinent discourse on the nature, •ubjects, causes and ends of rxcommunieation, and de- clared his motives leading him to it, not to be any private spirit of pas don, but conscience of duty, and zeal for God; Mr. Cargill pronounced the Sentence as follows. We have spoken of Excommunication ; of the •object? and ends thereof: VVe shall now proceed to the action, being constrained by the conscience of our duty, and zeal for God to excommunicate some of these who have been the committers of so great crimes, and author* •f ti e gnat n i-chiefs at Britain and Ireland, but espe- cially tiiese ut Scotland : And in doing of tois, we shall keep the names by which they m*. orianarily caitet^ that they may be the better known. 1 being a minister of Jesus Christ, and having autb*» rity and power from him Do, in hi* Name, and bv nis Spirit, excommunicate Charles the $■. cord. King, &c. and that upon tne accsunt of these wickednesses. 1 t. For bis high nmckir g of God, in that after he had •cknowU .:ged his own sms. his hnher's sins, uts inodier'a idolatry, and had solemnly engaged against them, in « declaration at Dunfermline, the Itiih. «f August, 165(1, he 46 be hath, notwithstanding of all this, gone on ntnre avow- edlv in these sins, than-all tint went befoie hi n. 2 dv F.ir his gre it perjury, after he had twice, at least, sole.nnly subscribed that Covenant, did so presimptu- oii>ly renounce, disown, and comannd it to be burned by the hand of the hangman. 3diy, Besause he has rescinded all laws for establish- ing of that religion and reformation engaged to in that Covenant, and enacted laws for establishing its contrary; an i is still working for the introducing of Popery int* thir lands. 4tbly, For commanding of armies to destroy the Lord’s people who were standing in their own jnst de- fence, and for their privileges and rights, against tyran- nies, oppressions, and injuries of men ; and for the blood he hath shed in fields, on scaffolds, and on the seas, of the people of God, upon account of religion and righte- ousness, (they being most willing in all other things, to n n ter him obedience, if he had reigned and ruled them according to his Covenani and Oath), more than all the kings that have been before him in Scotland. 5thly, That he hath been still an enemy to, and a persecutor ol true Prolestauts, and a favburer anu helper •f the Papists, both at home end abroad; and hath hindered, to the utmost ot his power, tne due execution •f just.laws against them. 6thiy, For his relaxing of the kingdom, by his frequent grant of remissions and pardons for murderers, (which is in the p'jwer of no king to go, bemg expressly contrary to the law of God) which was the ready way to embolden nica in committing of murders, to tiie dtfiiwig of the land with blood. . , Lastly, To pass by all other things his great and dreadful uncleai n s» of adultery and incest, hisdrunken- *es-, Ins dissembling with God and man ; and performing Ins promises where his engagements were sinful, &c. Next. By the same authority, and in the same name, I excommunicate, Cast out ot the true Church, and deliver «p to Satan James Duke of fork, &c and that for his idolatry, (tor 1 snail net speak of any other sms but J what *1 ^Tiat have been perp? tntc-d by bim in ^cntland) an^ frtr setting up idolatry in Scotland, to < Next In the same name and by the sa ne authorhy, I excommunicate, and cast out of the true Church and deliver up to Satan. James Duke of Monmouth, &c. tor coming into Scotland, upon his father’s unjust command, and leading armies against the Lord’s people, who were constrained to rise being killed in, and for the right worshipping of the true (rod; and for his refudag that morning at ii nhwel-bri dge a cess itiou >f mn^. for bearing and redressing their injuties, wi ongs aud-oppressionit, Next, I do, by virtue of the same authority, and in the same name, excommunicate, cast out of the true Church, and deliver up to S ttnn John Duke of Lau.ier- dale &o. for his dreadful hia-phe ny. espet ia tv tli U word to the Pre ate «'f St. Andrews. »S;f thou at my light hand, until I male thine enemies tiuj footstool. H s atheistical drolling on the Scriptures of God scoHrig at religion, and religious persons; his apo-tiev from the Cuven nt and work of reform ition, and his persecuting thereof, after he itad been a professor pleader, and press.t thereof. For his perjury in the badness of Mr. J tines Mitchel woo being in Council, gave public futh that lie should be in- demnified and that to life and limb, if he .should confess his attempt upon the Prelate; and notwithstanding of-this, before the Justiciary Court, did give oath, that there was ■o such A.ct in Council; For his adulteries and unclean- ness: for his counselling and assisting the King ip,,*!! his tyrannies, overturning an i plotting against the true religion: Fur his gaining on the Lords day. And, Lastly, for his usual and ordinary cursing. Next, I do by virtu's of the same authority and in the same name, cast out of the true Church, and deliver up to S tlan J ihn, Duke of 11 >thes, &c. fur his perjury In the matter of James Mitchel; and for his adulteries and uncleanness; for allotting the Lord’s day for his drunkenness: For his professing and avowing nis readi- ness and willingness to set up Popery in this land at the King’s 4S Jtfa*** eemrtwnd ? Anti for the heathenish. barWov^ an i unheirti of cruelty (whereof he was the chief author, contriver and comm mder, notwithstanding that he ha4 otherwise engaged lately) to that worthy gentleman, D vid Haekstoun of Rathilfet. And, lastly, for his •rdinary cursing, swearing, and drunkenness. Next I do. by virtue of the same authority, and in the same name, excommunicate cast out of the true Church, and deliver up to Saian. Sir George M Kenzie, the King’s Advocate; for his apostacy. in turning into a profligateness of conversation after he had begun a ptofe.'shin of holiness: For Ids constant pleading against and persecuting to death the people of Goo. and alledg- ing and laying to their charge things v. hieh in his con- science he knew to be against the word of God, truth, reason, and the ancient laws of this kingdom: And his pleading for sorcerers, murderers and other criminals, that before God and by the laws of the land, ought to die : For his ungodly, erroneous fantastic, and blasphem- ous tenets, printed to the world, in his pamphlets and pasquils. And, Lastly, I do, by virtue of the same authority and in the same n*me, excommunicate, cast out of the true Church, and deliver up to Satan Thomas Dtlziel of Binns, &c. for his leading armies, anel commanding the killing, robbing, pillaging, ami oppressing of the Loid’s people, and free subjects of this kingdom : And ior exe- cuting of lawless tyrannies, and lustful laws: For his commanding to shoot at a post one I'inlaj at Ncwmilns, without any form of law, civil or military, he not being guilty of any thing that they themselves counted a crime : For his lewd and impious life, led in adultery and un- cleanness from his youth, w ith a contempt of marriage, which is the ordinance of God : Far all his other atheisti- cal and irreligious conversation. And, lastly. For his unjust usurping and retaining of the estate of that worthy gentleman. William Muir of Cafdwel; and his other in- jurious deeds, in the exercise of his power. FINIS.