[457] Diet, used for fixed time.
[458] None shall be longer missed than just till the time when ye shall see them again.
[459] Will require all your power, and that of angels too, to unfold.
[460] In a sermon preached at Kircudbright, in 1634, on Heb. xii. 1-3, he says, "This condemns those who will not run one foot in the race except the gold be in their hand."
[461] Perhaps Mr. James Guthrie, minister of Stirling; afterwards beheaded in 1661, at the Cross of Edinburgh, and his head fixed on the Nether Bow.
[462] "To put one to it," is a phrase equivalent to, "Cause him to be at a loss how to act."
[463] Gillespie was lying on his deathbed when this letter was written to him by Rutherford, who had heard of the dangerous illness of his friend. He died on the 17th of December following.
[464] Your believing now is your last believing; closing the whole course.
[465] See Letter CCCXVIII.
[466] In this matter Gillespie complied with Rutherford's advice, having left behind him a testimony against both Malignants and Sectaries, subscribed by his own hand, on the 15th of December, only two days before he died.