[228] The same who was afterwards so well known as minister of Wamphray.
[229] Perhaps this word means kindness that had respect to his special needs.
[230] Rutherford here refers to the trial of his brother George, schoolmaster and reader in Kirkcudbright, before the High Commission, at Edinburgh, in November the preceding year, for his nonconformity and zealous support of Mr. Robert Glendinning, the persecuted minister of Kirkcudbright. As previously noticed (Letter LXVII.), he was condemned to resign his office, and to remove from Kirkcudbright before the ensuing term of Whitsunday. When at Edinburgh, and on his trial, he experienced much kindness from several of the correspondents of our author, who, in his letters to them, makes the most heartfelt grateful acknowledgments. After his ejection, "he seems," says Murray, "to have taken refuge in Ayrshire; for in a letter to Lord Loudon, Rutherford speaks of his brother as being nigh his Lordship's bounds; and every individual whom he addressed on his behalf (after his removal from Kirkcudbright) was connected with that county. The kindness and the frequency with which, in his letters, he speaks of him, do honour to his heart" ("Life of Rutherford," p. 93).
[231] Carcases; properly, the trunk, or bulk of the man. In some editions it is written "bouks;" but "bulks" is in all the old editions.
[232] Authentic Scripture.
[233] Dr. Robert Barron.
[234] This seems to mean mould, or fashion, yourself and them.
[235] Perhaps (see in Letter CLXVI.) his instructions on the Catechism are meant.
[236] "Oh if;" q.d., What will you say if I tell you that the walls of my prison are, etc.
[237] Never have got His due from me.