“ At another time, being in a house beset with soldiers, he went through the midst of them, they thinking it was the goodman of the house, and escaped.
After Bothwell, he fell into a deep exercise anent his call to the ministry; but, by the grace and goodness of God, he soon emerged out of that, and also got much light anent the duty of the day, being a faithful contender against the enemy's usurped power, and against the sinful compliance of ministers, in accepting the indulgence, with indemnities, oaths, bonds, and all other corruptions. ”

“ Bonshaw tied Mr Cargill's feet below the horse's belly, with his own hands, very hard; at which this man looked down to him and said, 'Why do you tie me so hard your wickedness is great. You will not long escape the just judgment of God ”

“ Enemies are now enraged against the way and people of God, but ere long they shall be enraged one against another, to their own confusion." Here the drums did beat a third time. Then setting his foot on the ladder, he said, "The Lord knows I go on this ladder with less fear, and perturbation of mind, than ever I entered the pulpit to preach."—When up, he sat down, and said, "Now I am near the getting of the crown, which shall be sure, for which I bless the Lord, and desire all of yon to bless him, that he hath brought me here, and made me triumph over devils, men, and sin. ”

“ One time Mr Cargill, Mr Walter Smith, and some other Christian friends, being met in a friend's house in Edinburh, one of the company told him of the general bonding of the Western gentlemen for suppressing field meetings; and putting all out of their grounds who frequented them. After sitting silent for some time, he answered, with several heavy sighs and groans, "The enemy have been long filling up their cup; and ministers and professors must have time to fill up theirs also; and it shall not be full till enemies and they be clasped in one another's arms ”

“ His confession being produced in evidence against him, he was brought in guilty of high treason, and condemned with the rest, to be hanged at the cross of Edinburgh, and his head placed on the Nether Bow. When they came to these words in his indictment, viz., having cast off all fear of God, &c., he caused the clerk to stop, and, pointing to the Advocate, Sir George M'Kenzie, said, 'The man that hath caused that paper to be drawn up hath done it contrary to the light of his own conscience, for he knoweth that I have been a fearer of God from mine infancy ”

“ After this, he got a call to the Barony Church of Glasgow. It was so ordered by Divine providence, that the very first text that the presbytery ordered him to preach upon, was these words in the third of Ezekial, already mentioned, by which he was more confirmed, that he had God's call to this parish. This parish had been long vacant, by reason that two ministers of the Resolution-party viz., Messrs Young and Blair, and still opposed the settlement of such godly men as had been called by the people. ”

“ His text was in Heb. xi, 32. "And what shall I more say, for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, &c." At night, some persons said to him. We think. Sir, preaching and praying go best with you when your danger and distress are greatest. He said, it had been so, and he hoped it would be so, the more that enemies and others did thurst at him that he might fall, the more sensibly the Lord had helped him and then (as it had been to himself) he repeated these words. The Lord is my strength and song, and has become my salvation, in the 118th Psalm, which was the psalm he sung upon the scaffold. ”

“ What comes not from the heart, I have little hope it will go to the hearts of others Then he repeated these words in the 51st psalm 'Then will I teach trangressors thy way,' &c.
From Loudon hill he took a tour through Ayrshire to Carrick and Galloway, preaching, baptizing, and marrying some people ”

“ Besides his last speech and testimony, and several other religious letters, with the lecture, sermon, and sentence of excommunication at Torwood, which, are all published, there are also several other sermons, and notes of sermons, interpersed among some people's hands, in print and manuscript, some of which have been published. Yet if we may believe Walker, in his remarkable passages, &c. who heard severals of them preached, they are nothing to what they were when delivered ”

“ He owned the lawfulness of defensive arms, in cases of necessity, and denied that those who rose at Bothwell, &c., were rebels: and being interrogated anent the Sanquhar declaration, he declined to give his judgment until he had more time to consider the contents thereof. He further declared, he could not give his sense of the killing of the Bishop; but that the Lord's giving a call to a private man to kill, he might do it lawfully ”

“ In the mean time, he had Middleton's soldiers lying at the Mutton-hole, about three miles from Edinburgh. Mr Skeen, Archibald Stuart, Mrs Muir, and Marion Hervey, took the way before, on foot; Mr Cargill and Mr Boig being to follow on horseback. Whenever they came to the place, the soldiers spied them; but Mrs Muir escaped and went and stopped Mr Cargill and Mr Boig, who fled back to Edinburgh. ”

“ If some of these men do not find that sentence binding upon them, ere they go off the stage, and be obliged to confess it, &c. (2.) If these men die the ordinary death of men, then God hath not spoken by me. ”

“ Some time before Bothwell, notwithstanding all the searches that were made for him by the enemy, whieh were both strict and frequent, he preached publicly for eighteen Sabbath-days to multitudes, consisting of several thousands, within a little more than a quarter of a mile of the city of Glasgow, yea, so near it, that the psalms, when singing were heard through several parts, of it ”

“ He was again before the Council on the 19th, but refusing to answer their questions, except anent the excommunication. There was some motion made to spare him as he was an old man. and send him prisoner to the Bass during life, which motion being put to the vote, was, by the casting vote of the Earl of Rothes, rejected; who doomed him to the gallows, there to die like a traitor. ”