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42 the Lord's people be troubled for theſe things; for all that they will get liberty to do to me, will be to knit me up, cut me down, and chop off my old head; and then fare them well, they have done with me, and I with them for ever.

When he and thoſe with him, came to get their ſentence of death, their indictments were read, wherein they had their ſentences, as their common form then was, viz. "Having caſt off all fear of God, and acted ſo and ſo, and therefore deſerved to be puniſhed ſo and ſo:" He ſaid to the Clerk, Halt; and (pointing to apoſtate Sir George Mackinze then advocate) ſaid, "The man that has cauſed that paper to be drawn in that form, hath done it contrary to the light of his own conſcience; for he knows I have been a ſearer of God from my infancy; but I ſay, the man that took the holy Bible in his hand, and ſaid, that it would never be well with the land till that book was deſtroyed, with many other wicked expreſſions and actions in his life; I ſay, he is the man that has caſt off all fear of God.” The advocate ſtormed at this; but did not deny the truth of it, knowing that he had thus expreſſed himſelf, in ſome of his wicked mad fits. There is yet alive an old reverend miniſter in the ſouth of Scotland, was witneſs to this and can affert the truth of it, who ſeveral times ſince had ſaid, that he admired the compoſedneſs and confidence of Mr. Cargill. While in priſon, he had written more at large, though he was ſhort, marrowy, and ſententious in preaching, praying, and writing, as may be ſeen in his few public letters, his laſt ſhort ſpeech, and what he ſpake upon the ſcaffold, publiſhed in the Cloud Witneſſes, which I wish from my heart, that all the Lord's people would narrowly and ſeriouſly peruſe; they have been very uſeful and edifying to me and many others. His more large paper was taken from him, by the wicked curſed keepers, of that time; his ſhort ſpeech left behind him, he wrote that morning before he