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19 solid Christian, who was fourteen years banished there, (who died of late in the parish of Carstairs) carried that letter, and delivered it to his father; When the good old man read it, he fainted. But David Jamie being a piece of a scholar, got himself 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.

Thus I have given a full and true account of the rise, steps, and monstrous lengths, and frightful end of those Gibbites; which may be a warning to the present and following ages, to tremble and be afraid of coming under the power of such demented delirious delusions: and whereby, all may see, that the man of God (blest Cargill) was not mistaken in all that he did foresee and foretel about them.

9thly, After that conference 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 I have set watchmen upon thy walls; 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 of regeneration, and had been overly in their trials, contenting themselves with a clatter of gifts and learning: and lamented also, that so many watchmen were fled off the walls, and deserted their posts, frighted, as if they were blasted or thunder-slain. He stayed for some time in that wood.

In the beginning of May, 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 enquirodenquired [sic] 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. We fear, if the Lord send not rain, there will be a scarcity of bread—He said, I have been thinking upon that since I came into this wood; but, if I be not under a delusion, (for