duties of prayer, fasting and mourning, than upon Christ's satisfaction, obedience and intercession, which alas, that legal formal spirit is the ruin and plague of the greater part of preachers and prayers abounding this day, and ruining all the churches. These were a part of the confession of some of these gracious women, who came under the power of such delusions voluntarily before a great multitude of people, upon the 3d day of March 1681, at the black hill of Lesmahago; and matter of mourning to this day. Immediately after they came to these desart places, they kept a day of fasting, and confessing of their sins, one to another: Yea, some of them confest sins that the world had not heard of, and so not called to confess them to men.
In the meantime, of their lying in this sad pickle in desart places, the man of God, blest Cargill, came down from England, a happy tryst to many godly, zealous souls, who had a gale of zeal upon their spirits, and feared no danger upon the right hand, if they held off the left. Immediately he was called to preach in Darmade muirs, by some who retained their former zeal and faithfulness That Sabbath morning, John Gibb, David Jamie, Walter Kerr, John Young, and twenty-six women, were lying in the Deer-slunk, in midst of a great How of moss, betwixt Clydesdale and Lothian, about a mile distant. Mr. Cargill sent two men, whose names I could mention, to desire them to come and hear sermon, and that he might converse with them, severals of them being his acquaintance. John Gibb answered; He had left the land, and deserted the testimony; they did not want him nor no other minister; it was never better with them than since they had parted with all of them He came and stood upon a chair, and had nothing to rest upon, with his bible betwixt his hands, as his ordinary was at all times when I heard him. I well remember, he sang the first verse of the 37 Psalm. "For evil doers fret thou not" &c. and lectured upon the 21st Chapter of 1 Kings from the 17th verse, of what passed betwixt
