If my Lord would be pleased, I should desire that some be dealt with, for my return to Anwoth. But if that never be, I thank God Anwoth is not heaven; preaching is not Christ. I hope to wait on.
Let me hear how your child is, and your Ladyship's mind and hopes of him; for it would ease my heart to know that he is well.
I am in good terms with Christ; but oh, my guiltiness! Yet He bringeth not pleas betwixt Him and me to the streets, and before the sun.
Grace, grace for ever more be with your Ladyship.
Your Ladyship's, at all obedience in Christ,
S. R.
Aberdeen, 1637.