[477] Once for all; completely.
[478] Supposing that this controversy remains undecided.
[479] The Hebrew of Isa. lxiii. 1 is alluded to (צֹעֶה): "marching on in the greatness of His strength." Rutherford, in the latter part of his life, studied Isaiah very closely. See Sketch of his Life.
[480] England and Ireland.
[481] The blow, Zachary Boyd ("Last Battle") speaks of "the dint of God's judgment-stroke."
[482] On the 1st of December 1650, being Sabbath, the west country forces of the Covenanters were scattered at Hamilton by a party of English, under the conduct of Lambert. Several of them were killed, and Colonel Ker was wounded and taken. (Lamont's "Diary," p. 24.)
[483] The Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
[484] Isa. xxii. 25 is alluded to, where the Hebrew word means either "broken," or cut down. See note, p. 655.
[485] Rutherford here refers to a call which he had received (on the death of De Maets, or Dematius) to fill the Chair of Divinity in the University of Utrecht, to which he was elected without being consulted. He, however, declined to accept the invitation. The call was conveyed to him first verbally, by his brother James, then an officer in a regiment lying at Grave in Brabant; and next formally in writing.
[486] Wodrow MSS. vol. xlv. 8vo, No. 13. "This letter," says Wodrow, "is taken from a copy; but is certainly Mr. Rutherford's to Lady Ralston of that ilk, which I have from her grandchild, and, as far as I can see, is not printed."