Thus remembering my love to your worthy and kind wife, I bless you and her, and all yours, in the Lord's name.

Yours, in his only, only Lord Jesus,

S. R.

Aberdeen, Sept. 20, 1637.


[CCLXVII.—To William Glendinning, Bailie of Kirkcudbright.]

(THE PAST AND THE FUTURE—PRESENT HAPPINESS.)

W ORTHY SIR,—Grace, mercy, and peace be to you.—I am well, honour be to God! as well as a rejoicing prisoner of Christ can be, hoping that one day He, for whom I now suffer, will enlarge me, and put me above the threatenings of men.