"I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions."
- Donald Cargill (1619-1681), a preacher during the Killing Times in Scotland, when Charles II was systematically hunting down and killing with his armies presbyterians who would not confess that the king was head of the Church, as Christ is her only head. Though towards the end of his life Cargill was forced to take up civil matters pressing on the times, he considered himself first and primarily a preacher of the gospel of Christ. As he climbed up the scaffold to be beheaded, he said, "The Lord knows I go up this ladder with less fear, confusion or perturbation of mind, than ever I entered a pulpit to preach."
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