“ One time Mr Cargill, Mr Walter Smith, and some other Christian friends, being met in a friend's house in Edinburgh, 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 the cup; and ministers and professors must have time to fill up their's also; and it shall not be full till enemies and they be clasped in one another's arms ”

“ In this confusion Mr Cargill was running straight on the enemy; but Gavin Wotherspoon and others haled him to the moss, unto whieh the people fled. The dragoons fired hard upon them, but there were none either killed or taken that day.
About this time, some spoke to Mr Cargill of his preaching and praying short. They said, "O Sir, it is long betwixt meals, and we are in a starving condition; all is good, sweet, and wholesome, that you deliver, but why do you so straiten us?" ”

“ From Glasgow they were taken to Edinburgh, and, July 15th, were brought before the Council. Chancellor Rothes (being one of those whom he excommunicated at Torwood) raged against him, threatening him with torture and a violent death. To whom he said, "My Lord Rothes, forbear to threaten me, for die what death I will, your eyes shall not see it.-Which accordingly came to pass; for he died the morning of that day, in the afternoon of which Mr Cargill was executed. ”

“ He said, "Ever since I bowed a knee in good earnest to pray, I never durst preach, and pray with my gift; and when my heart is not affected, and comes not up with my mouth, I always think it time to quit it. 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 teaeh transgressors thy way, &c."
From Loudon hill he took a tour through Ayrshire to Carrick and Galloway, preaching, baptizing, and marrying some people ”

“ 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 baek to Edinburgh. ”

“ Being come to the scaffold, he stood with his back to the ladder, and desired the attention of the numerous spectators; and after singing from the 16th verse of the 118th psalm, he began to speak to three sorts of people; but being interrupted by the drum, he said, with a smiling eountenance, 'Ye see we have no liberty to speak what we would, but God knoweth our hearts.' As he proeeeded, he was again interrupted. Then, after a little pause, or silence, he began to exhort the people ”

“ He owned the lawfulness of defensive arms, in cases of necessity, and denied that those that 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 seriptures say, upon the Lord's giving a call to a private man to kill, he might do it lawfully; and gave the instances of Jael and Phinehas. These were the most material points on whieh he was examined. ”

“ From thence he went to the south, and next Sabbath preached at Cairnhill, somewhere adjacent to Loudon, in his blood and wounds; for no danger could stop him from going about doing good. His text was in Heb. xi. 32. And what shall I more say, for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, &e. 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 ”

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