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16 ties of prayer, faſting and mourning, than upon Chriſt's ſatisfaction, obedience and interceſſion, which alas, that legal formal ſpirit is the ruin and plague of the greater part of preachers and prayers abounding this day, and ruining all the churches. Theſe were a part of the confeſſion of ſome of theſe gracious women, who came under the power of ſuch deluſions voluntarily before a great multitude of people, upon the 3d day of March 1681, at the black hill of Leſmahago; and matter of mourning to this day. Immediately after they came to theſe deſart places, they kept a day of faſting, and confeſſing of their ſins one to another: Yea, ſome of them confeſt ſins that the world had not heard of, and ſo not call'd to confeſs them to men.

In the meantime of their lying in this ſad pickle in deſart places, the man of God, bleſt Cargill, came down from England; a happy tryſt to many godly, zealous ſouls, who had a gale of zeal upon their ſpirits, and feared no danger upon the right hand, if they held off the left. Immediately he was called to preach in Darmade muirs, by fome who retained their former zeal and faithfulneſs. That Sabbath morning, John Gibb, David Jamie, Walter Kerr, John Young, and twenty-ſix women, were lying in the Deer-flunk in, midſt of a great flow moſs betwixt Clydeſdale and Lothian, about a mile diſtant. Mr. Cargill ſent two men, whoſe names I could mention, to deſire them to come and hear ſermon, and that he night converſe with them, ſeveral of them being his acquaintance. John Gibb anſwered, He had left the land, and deſerted the teſtimony; they did not want him nor no other miniſter; it was never better with them than ſince they had parted with all of them. He came and ſtood upon 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. I weil remember, he ſang the firſt verſe of the 37 Pſalm, For evil doer's fret thou not, &c. and lectured upon the 21ſt Chapter of 1 Kings from the 17th verſe, of what paſſed betwixt