THE
Life and Prophesies
OF THAT
Faithful Minister of God's Word,
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 IId, May 29th 1660; and was publicly murdered, at the cross of Edinburgh, July 27th 1681, before many witnesses, in that never to be forgotten, unheard of twenty-eight 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 to stop and overturn our
