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After this remarkable escape, Mr Cargill seeing nothing but the violent flames of treachery and tyranny against him, above all others, retired for about three months to England, where the Lord blessed his labours to the conviction and edification of many. In the time of his absence that delusion of the Gibbites arose, from one John Gib, sailor in Borrow-stounness, who, with other three men, and twenty six women, vented and maintained the mos strange delusions. Some time after, Mr Cargill, returned from England, and was at no small pains to reclaim them, but with little success. After his last conference with them, at Darngavel, in Cumbusnethan parish, he came next Sabbath, and aed preached at the Underbankwood, below Lanark, and from thence to Loudon-hill, where he preached upon a fast day, being the 5th of May. Here he intended only to have preached once, and to have baptized some children. His text was, 'No man that hath followed me in the regeneration, &c. When sermon was over, and the children baptized, more children came up; whereupon friends pressed him to preach in the afternoon; which he did, from these words, "Weep not for me," &c. In the mean while the enemy at Glasgow getting notice of this meeting, seized all the horses in and about the town, that they could come by, and mounted in quest of him; yea, such was their haste and fury, that one of the soldiers, who happened to be behind the rest, riding furiously down the street called Stockwell, at mid-day, rode over a child, and killed her on the spot. Just as Mr Cargill was
