[357] Against the grain.
[358] No one is warranted, in God's market, to buy such a thing as a trial; we must not bring trials on ourselves.
[359] Probably, Robert Blair.
[360] Property.
[361] The rebound of a ball. Ye do well to recall your thoughts ere they have gone too far.
[362] A bond "registered" means kept on record, so that it cannot be taken out.
[363] Notwithstanding.
[364] Merely for the purpose of trying the soul, Christ goes away elsewhere.
[365] The dregs.
[366] This probably means France, as Mr. Blair at this time resolved to go to that country as chaplain in Colonel Hepburn's regiment. He embarked at Leith, but seeing the excessive wickedness of some of the men, abandoned the enterprise, and returned to Edinburgh (Row's "Continuation of Blair's Life," pp. 151-153).