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 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, via. "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 Mackenzie then advocate) said, "The man that hath 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 fearer of God from my infancy; but I say, the man that took the holy Bible in his hand, and still, 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 same of his wicked mad fits, There is yet alive, an old reverend minister in the south of Scotland, was witness to this, and can assert 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 hit last speech, and what he spake up on the scaffold, published in the Cloud of 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