[487] Too?
[488] Come to know how much we are changed.
[489] Rutherford alludes to the opposition made by the Protesters to the Public Resolutions.
[490] Nevertheless.
[491] From a copy among the Wodrow MSS. vol. xlv. 8vo, No. 14. "I had it," says Wodrow, "from the Laird of Ralston. It's a double, only written on the same sheet with the former to Lady Ralston, perhaps about the same time."
[492] Enjoy?
[493] Marion M'Naught, her mother, died 1643.
[494] The differences on account of the Public Resolutions. Letter CCCXXIX., note.
[495] The Government of Cromwell.
[496] Refers probably to J. M'Lellan, who had come from Ireland, and been admitted minister in Kirkcudbright in 1638, where he continued to live and labour till his death in 1650. He was a man early acquainted with God and His ways, a most upright and zealous Protestant, and one who knew not what it was to be afraid in the cause of God. Livingstone says that he was thought by many to have had somewhat of the spirit of prophecy; he foretold many sad events that would come on England. A little before his death he composed the following epitaph on himself:—