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Rh and offering ſacrifices to him, he died there about the year 1720. David Jamie wrote a letter to his father in Linlithgow, where he was born, deſiring him not to trouble himſelf about heaven or hell, for all theſe things were fancies. John Smith that ſerious ſolid Chriſtian who was fourteen years baniſh'd 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 theſe 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 forſee and foretel about them.

9thly, After that conference with the Gibbites at Darngavell, the next Sabbath day, he preached two miles beneath Lanark, in the Under-bank-wood upon Clyde ſide, 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 letting up of watchmen, that had little or no experience of regeneration, and had been overly of their trials, contenting themſelves with a clatter of gifts and learning: And lamented alſo, that ſo many watchmen were fed 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 ſufferer, came unto him: The brass being ſteep and the woods cloſe,