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18 his ſpirit. They ſaid, now, Sir, you have ſpoke with them, and have had your thoughts about them, be free with us. He ſaid, my thoughts are both bad and ſad: This man, John Gibb, is an incarnate devil, and there are many devils in him; woe to him, his name will ſtink while the world ſtands. I bleſs God who preſerved me, he might have cut my throat 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, John Young and others, will go a greater length, but I hope the Lord will reclaim many of them. And now, go all home, and pray that this ſhare may be broke; for this is one of the moſt dreadful and dangerous ſhares that hath been in my time; but they run ſo faſt, they will ſoon diſcover themſelves: But I greatly fear theſe wild tares of deluſions and diviſions will ſpring and grow, and never be rooted out in this land; which has ſadly come to paſs.

And this, in preaching and conference, he was moſt ſententious and plain in diſcovering and giving warning of the ſhare, ſin and danger of theſe wild extremes: nevertheleſs, the indulged, ſilent and unfaithful, lukewarm, complying miniſters and profeſſors made no diſtinction betwixt him and Gibb, but made it their work by tongue and pen, to bury him and his faithfulneſs in the aſhes of theſe vile extremes; and as for any of us that travell'd 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, altho' I never ſaw John Gibb, nor was acquaint with any of his followers at that time; for which I bleſs the Lord that ſo mercifully and remarkably prevented it, by hearing and following of bleſt Cargill.

After this, in the beginning of May, the Gibbites: were all taken by a troop of dragoons at the Woolhillcraigs, betwixt Lothian and Tweedale, a very deſart place: The enemies carried them to Edinburgh; the