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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 the apostate Sir George Mackenzie, then King's 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 fearer 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 of 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 himseif, in some of his wicked mad fits. There is yet alive an old reverend minister in the south of Scotland, who was witness to this, and can assert the truth of it: who several times since has 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 spoke upon 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 suffered, before eight o'clock, when the doors were opened.
He and these worthies murdered with him, got their sentences of death the day before when he uttered these admirable and very rare sentences viz. That that day was the most joyful day in all his life; and that he had not been without an assurance of his interest in Christ these
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