THE
Life and Prophecies
OF
Mr. DONALD CARGILL.
MR DONALD CARGILL was the eldest son of a singularly godly gentleman, and heritor in the parish of Rattery some miles from Dunkeld. After he had passed his courses of learning at Aberdeen, he was established Minister in the Barony parish of Glasgow, before and at the unhappy restoration of Charles the Second May 29, 1660; and was publicly murdered at the Cross of Edidburgh, July 27 1681, before many witnesses, in that never-to-be-forgotten, unheard-of 28 years of reigning tyrants, and raging tyranny of Prelatical Protestants upon Presbyterian Protestants.
It is a loss that I cannot give an account how long he was fixed minister in the foresaid parish; only it is certain, it was before and at the unhappy Restoration, when hell, Rome, and all their proselytes and favourites had their invention upon the rack, in their wicked, crafty counsels,how
