I bless you for your prayers. Add to them praises: as I am able, I pay you home. I commend your diving in Christ's Testament; I would I could set out the dead man's good-will to His friends, in His sweet Testament. Speak a prisoner's hearty commendations to Christ. Fear not, your ten days (Rev. ii. 10) will over. Those that are gathered against Mount Zion, their eyes shall melt away in their eye-holes, and their tongues consume away in their mouths, and Christ's withered garden shall grow green again in Scotland. My Lord Jesus hath a word hid in heaven for Scotland, not yet brought out.

Grace be with you.

Yours, in his sweet Lord Jesus,

S. R.

Aberdeen, July 7, 1637.


[CCXV.—To Mistress Stuart.]

[Mrs. Stuart is the wife of Provost Stuart of Ayr, of whom see an account, Letter CLXI.]

(PERSONAL UNWORTHINESS—LONGING AFTER HOLINESS—WINNOWING TIME.)