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Some time before Bothwell, notwithstanding all the searches that were made for Mr Cargill by the enemy, which were both strict and frequent, he preached publicly for eighteen Sabbath-days to multitudes, consisting of several thousands, within a little more than a quarter of a mile of the city of Glasgow, yea, so near it that the psalms when singing were heard through several parts of it, and yet all this time uninterrupted.
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At Bothwell, being taken by the enemy, and struck down to the ground with a sword, seeing nothing but present death for him, having received several dangerous wounds in the head, one of the soldiers asked his name. He told him it was Donald Cargill. Another asked him if he was a minister? He answered he was, whereupon they let him go. When his wounds were examined, he feared to ask if they were mortal, desiring, in submission to God, to live, judging that the Lord had yet further work for him to accomplish.
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There was a certain woman in Rutherglen, about two miles from Glasgow, who, by the instigation of some, both ministers and professors, was persuaded to advise her husband to go but once to hear the Curate, to prevent the family being reduced, which she prevailed with him to do. But she going the next day after to milk her cows, two or three of them dropped down dead at her feet, and Satan, as she conceived, appeared unto her, which cast her under sad and sore exercises and desertion, so that she was brought to question her interest in Christ, and all that had formerly passed betwixt God and her soul, and was often tempted to destroy herself, and sundry times attempted it. Being before known to be an eminent Christian, she was visited by many Christians, but without success, she still crying out, she was undone; she had denied Christ, and He had denied her. After a long time’s continuance of this excercise, she cried for Mr Cargill, who came to her, but found her distemper so strong, that for several visits he was obliged to leave her as he found her to his no small grief. However, after setting some days apart on her behalf, he at last came to her, but finding her no better, still rejecting all comfort, still crying out, that she had no interest in the mercy of God, or merits of Christ, but had sinned the unpardonable sin, he, looking her in the face for a considerable time, took out his Bible, and naming her, said, “I have this day a commission from my Lord and Master to renew the marriage contract betwixt you and Him, and if ye will not consent, I am to require your superscription on this Bible, that you are willing to quit all right, interest in, or pretence unto Him.” And then he offered her pen and ink for that purpose. She was silent for some time, but at last cried out, “Oh, salvation is come unto this house! I take Him on His own terms, as He is offered unto me by His faithful ambassador.” From that time her bonds were loosed.
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One time, Mr Cargill, Mr Walter Smith, and some other Christian friends being met in a friend’s house in Edinburgh, one of the company, having got notice, told him of the general bonding of the west country gentlemen for suppressing the field meetings and for putting all out of their grounds who frequented them. After sitting silent for some time, he answered, with several heavy sighs and groans, “The enemy have been long filling up their cup, and ministers and professors must have time to fill up theirs also, and it shall not be full till enemies and they be clasped in one another’s arms; and then, as the Lord lives, He will bring the wheel of His wrath and justice over them altogether.”