Your Ladyship's, at all obedience, in the Lord,
S. R.
St. Andrews, Nov. 20, 1657.
[CCCXLIX.—For Mr. John Scot, at Oxnam.]
[John Livingstone, in his letter to his parishioners at Ancrum, says: "Oxnam is not far off from you, and I hope Mr. Scot doth and will declare for the sworn Reformation, and testify against present defection.">[
(PROTESTERS' TOLERATION.)
R EVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,—I saw from C. K. a testimony of your Presbytery against toleration, in which ye have been instrumental. The Lord give strength to do more. I think it both rare and necessary, and would account it a great mercy, if there were an addition of a postscript from divers ministers and elders, out of all the shires of Scotland. It is really the mind of all the godly and tender in this land. It is believed by some, that the Protesting party hath quite given over the cause. I hope it is not so; but the Lord shall be yet victorious in His most despised ones. Our darkness is great and thick, and there is much deadness; yet the Lord will be our light.
Thus recommending you to His grace whose ye are, I am, your own brother, in the Lord,