[198] Occasionally.
[199] Jer. xxxi. 20; Hos. xi. 8.
[200] The fear to be deprived of it. Early editions give "laughing," which seems a misprint.
[201] Confessor.
[202] Luke i. 35.
[203] No one will ever hear the chiding. See Note, Letter LXX.
[204] Discharge His servant before the term.
[205] To be on good terms with.
[206] Rutherford seems here to allude to a plan of furnishing short commentaries on the whole Bible, which was suggested and set on foot by Dickson at the beginning of the seventeenth century. "The Hebrews," as is mentioned in this letter, together with "The Psalms" and "Matthew," were undertaken by Dickson; and "Hosea," which Rutherford here intimates his intention to undertake, but never accomplished, was contributed by Hutchison in his stead. In the Preface to one of the earliest editions of the Letters, a complaint is made that some one was secreting a MS. commentary of Rutherford's upon "Isaiah."
[207] Opens and constitutes an unauthorized court.