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went and stopped Mr. Cargill and Mr Boig, who fled baek to Edinburgh.
After this remarkable eseape, Mr Cargill, seeing nothing but the violent flames of treaehery 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 most strange delusions. Some time after, Mr Cargill returned from England, and was at no small pains to reelaim them, but with little suecess. After his last conferenee with them, at Darngavel, in Cambusnethen parish, he eame next Sabbath, and preaehed at the Underbank wood, 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 preaehed onee, and to have baptized some ehildren. His text was, 'No man that hath followed me in the regeneration, &e.' When sermon was over, and the children baptized, more children came up whereupon friends pressed him to preaeh 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 eould eome by, and mounted in quest of him ; yea, sueh was their haste and fury, that one of the soldiers, who happened to be behind the rest, riding furiously down the street called the Stockwell, at mid-day, rode over
