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.

He returned later and tried to hold a communion but the service was interrupted and he was arrested briefly. After Cameron's death in July at the hand of dragoons Cargill continued to preach in the Torwood near Stirling and in September pronounced the sentence of excommunication against the key government figures who were persecuting the Covenanters: Charles II James Duke of York and James Duke of Monmouth Privy Councillors John Duke of Lauderdale and John Duke of Rothes the King's Advocate Sir George McKenzie and General Tam Dalziel of the Binns.