From Donald Cargills testimony

"And O that all had taken this method ! for then there had been fewer apostacies. The religion of the land, and zeal for the land's engagements, are come to nothing but a supine, loathsome, and hateful formality; and there cannot be zeal, liveliness, and rightness, where people meet with persecution, and want heart-renovation. My soul trembles to think how little of regeneration there is amongst the ministers and professors of Scotland. O the ministers of Scotland, how have they betrayed Christ's interest and beguiled souls ! ' They have not entered in themselves, and them that were entering in, they hindered.' Tiiey have sold the things of Christ and liberties of His Church for a short and cursed quiet to themselves, which is now near an end ; and they are more one and at peace with God's enemies, after they have done all their mischiefs, nor than they were at first when they had but put hand to them. And I much fear, that though there were but one minister on all the earth. He will make no more use of them ; but there will be a dreadful judgment upon themselves, and a long curse upon their posterity ! " As to our professors, my counsel to them is, that they would see well to their own regeneration, for the most part of them have that yet to do ; and yet, let never one think that he is in the right exercise of true religion, that has not a zeal to God's public glory. There is a small remnant in Scotland that my soul has had its greatest comfort on earth from. I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness ; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. Satisfy your consciences, and go forward ; for the nearer you are to God, and the further from all others, whether stated [ declared] enemies or lukewarm ministers and professors, it shall be the better. " My preaching has occasioned persecution, but the want of it will, I fear, occasion worse. However, I have preached the truths of God to others, as it is written, ' I believed, and so I preached,' and I have not an ill conscience in preaching truth, whatever has followed ; and this day I am to seal with my blood all the truths that ever I preached ; and what is controverted of that which I have been professing, shall, ere long, be manifested by God's judgments in the consciences of men. I had a sweet calmness of spirit and great submission as to my taking, the providence of God was so eminent in it ; and I could not but think that God judged it necessary for His glory to bring me to such an end, seeing He loosed me from such a work. My soul would be exceedingly troubled anent the remnant, were it not that I think the time will be short. V/herefore, hold fast, for this is the way tliat is now persecuted. " As to the cause of my suftering, the main is, ' Not acknowledging the present authority, as it is established in the Supremacy and Explanatory Act.' This is the magistracy that I have rejected, that was invested with Christ's power. And seeing that this power, taken from Christ, which is His glory, made the essential of the crown, I thought it was as if I had seen one wearing my husband's garments after he had killed him ; and seeing it is made the essential of the crown, there is no distinction we can make, that can free the conscience of the acknowledger from being a partaker of this sacrilegious robbing of God ; and it is but to cheat our consciences to acknowledge the civil power ; for it is not civil power only that is made of the essence of his crown. And seeing they are so express, we ought to be plain ; for otherwise it is to deny our testimony and consent to His robbery.