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.