Grace be with you.
Yours, in his sweet Lord Jesus,
S. R.
Aberdeen, July 8, 1637.
[CCXX.—To my Lord Craighall.]
(DUTY OF BEING DISENTANGLED FROM CHRIST—DISHONOURING COMPLIANCES.)
M Y LORD,—I persuade myself that, notwithstanding the greatness of this temptation, ye will not let Christ want a witness of you, to avow Him before this evil generation. And if ye advise with God's truth (the perfect testament of Christ, that forbiddeth all men's additions to His worship), and with the truly learned, and with all the sanctified in this land, and with that warner within you (which will not fail to speak against you, in God's time, if ye be not now fast and fixed for Christ), I hope then that your Lordship will acquit yourself as a man of courage for Christ, and refuse to bow your knee superstitiously and idolatrously to wood or stone, or any creature whatsoever. I persuade myself that when ye shall take good night at this world, ye shall think it God's truth I now write.