Letter 74, "dought.

_Draff-poke_; the beggar's bag, for carrying anything put in. 249. --_Draff_; a useless thing; "draught," Matt. xv. 17. "Corruption like a draff-poke at my heels" (Eliz. West).

_Draught_; plans drawn out and sketched. 14.

_Draw_; in the sense of "_remove_;" table drawn. 146. In Lady Montague's Letters, "drawing-room, or _withdrawing_ room, as they now say."

_Draw by_; draw aside. 11.

_Draw-knot_; a slip-knot, easily loosened. 51.

_Dreary_; sad. 87.

_Drink over the board_; renounce.

_Drink-silver_; gift, or token of regard for kindness shown or service done, --a gift to servants. 119. --_Drink-money_, 277; the same.

_Drouthy_; from "drought;" very dry. 256.

_Drumbled_; made muddy; troubled water. 153.

_Dry_; reserved, backward. 181, 182, 187, 206, etc.

_Dumps_; bad humour. 187.

_Dwine_; to pine away. 85, 169, etc.

_Dyke_; a wall. 194, 276, etc.

_Dyvour_; a debtor; sometimes a bankrupt --Fr., "_Devoir_."

_Earnest_; the foretaste. 179.

_Ease-room_; a room for pleasure or repose. 5, 247, 311.

_Ebb_, Adj.; shallow, like tide going back. 94, 120, etc. --_Ebbness._ 175.

_Edge by_; push aside. 225.

_Empawn_; lay down as pledge. 229, 268.

_Enact_; to decree. 291.

"_End_;" thrice on end. 324. --Thrice in succession.

_Engyne_, or _ingyne_; Latin, _Ingenium_, disposition, ability, policy. 84, 94. --Power of mind. 64.

_Entire_; no division or half-heartedness. 119, 280.

_Errand_; business. 210, 250.--"Ride his errands," 249, go on with his work.

_Evangel_; good news generally. 224.

_Even_; to put down one as capable of a thing; propose as fit for a person, 70. --The phrase, "_Be even with_;" have accounts settled, be quits. 113, 114.

_Evil-worthy_; unworthy, ill-worth. 336.

_Expone_; explain the sense. 165.

_Eye_, Verb; to look for. 276.

_Eye-sweet_; pleasant to the eye. 213, 277.

_Fail_, or _feal_; turf. 194.

_Fain_; glad. "_Faintes_," most gladly. "_Fain not twice_" is glad to remain settled; not caring to rise after sitting down. "Fain have taken effect," 16; desire to have carried through.

_Fair_; a market. 172.

_Fair_; Adj. in the phrase, "_fair fire_," is commonly in Scotland "a fair lowe," _i.e._ all a flame together. 204. --"_Fair fall you_," good betide. 337.

_Faird_, or _fard_; to paint (_q.d._ make _fair_), embellish, disguise. 82, 83, 88, 191.

_Fair-outsided_. 88. --Applied to the world that is fair only on the outside.

_Fall about_; search about. 21. --"_Fall by_;" be lost. 252, 291. --"_Fall to_;" engage in. 72, 288. --"_Fall off_;" forsake. 246.

_Far_ "The _far end_," the final issue. 184.

_Fard_; paint, fine colouring. 82, 83.

_Farm-room_; a rented room, like a tenant's firm.

_Fash_ and _fashery_; trouble by importunity and about little things. 145, 196, 249, etc.

_Fast_; firm. 74, 250.

_Feared_; alarmed, timid. 293.

_Feckless_; worthless, useless, pithless. 23, 24, etc. --Baxter in his "Saints' Rest" uses it.

_Fenced_; guarded; also constituted; a law term, used of opening a Court and proclaiming the authority by which the Court was held and the object of it. 77, 82, 112, 146, 161.

_Fend_; provide for, take care of. 87, 114, 129, etc. So Maxton on Ps. cxix. cxlv.

_Fetch_; to make for a place. 83, 106, 184, 240, 241, 284.

_Feu-duty_; yearly rent for ground on which a house is built. 254.

_Find_; to feel, or find out. 155, 169, 192, 334.

_Fire-flaught_; a flake of fire, a flash of lightning. 104. --In Row's "Hist. of Scot.," "extraordinary thunder and fire-flaught," p. 333.

_Flitting_; removing furniture and goods to another place. 250, 277. (It is A.S.)

_Flourish_; to blossom. 50.

_Flyte_; to scold or chide. 189. --"Flyting free;" they have nothing to say against him. 181.

_Foot._ The phrase, "_hold the foot to it_," go on in the march. 249.

_Foot-mantle_; a riding habit reaching to the feet. 268. --In a sermon on Zech. xi. 9, "Gold, silks, velvets, and foot-mantles, and high horses."

_For_; notwithstanding. 307.

_Forcasten_; cast away, neglected. 167, 177, 285.

_Fore_; surplus; the perquisite given over and above; something still remaining. 70, 80, 158.

_Foregainst_; opposite. 289.

_Forfeit_; declare to be forfeited. 206.

_Forlorn_; prodigal. 167, 228, 285. --"The lost forlorn son" is the prodigal. (So in German.)

_Forthcoming_; ready to come forward and speak. 250.

_Four-hours_; the afternoon meal, taken four hours after the forenoon's. 94, 110, 118, 285.

_Fourteen Prelates_; the number of Bishops in Scotland under Charles II.

_Frame_; to fit or set (Judg. xii. 6; Hos. v. 4), set in a proper position; turn out, or succeed. 32, 41, 187, 232, 254, 287.

_Fraught_; the same as _freight_. 84, 153, 195, 217. --"Fraught-free;" no fare to pay. 265.

_Freeholding_; lands held for life. 203.

_Free-ward_; liberty. 269.

_Free-warders_; prisoners who have right to go free. 265.

_Frem_, A. S., "_fremd_;" hence written "_fremd_" or "_fremmyt_;" strange, foreign, distant. 69, 165.

_Friend-sted_; to befriend. 188, 275.

_Frith_; strait; sea. 84.

_Fryst_, or _frist_; to postpone possession or action,--the opposite of _tryst_. 176, 205, etc. Give credit to. 105. Put off a demand. 20.

_Fyle_; to defile, _find guilt_. 212.

_Gaddy_; fond of gadding about. 270.

_Gardies_, or _gardess_; arms. 18.--It is the Gaelic word "_gairdean_," an arm. In Row's "Life of Blair" (p. 154), "Mrs. Hamilton came up to Traquair, and fest-grip his _gardie_."

_Gate_; road, way, manner of doing. 29, 38, etc. --The phrase, "_start to the gate_," begin early, soon on the road. 136, 148, 186, 294.

_Gawd_; trick, bad custom. 240. --Used by Gawin Douglas and by Chaucer for a freak, and said to be from Fr., "_gaudir_," to be merry.

_Gear_; goods, substance, money. 120.

_General_; not at all familiar. 205. "In fair generals." 93. Not coming to close quarters.

_Gifted_; bestowed as a favour. 353, 359. --Often so used in his "Covenant of Life Opened." Make a present of.

_Glaiked_, or _glaiket_; giddy, light. 284.

_Glance_; bright as glowing metal. So in his sermon on Zech. xiii. 7. 287, 295.

_Glister_; glitter, shine bright. 51. --See Luke ix. 21.

_Gloom_; frown, sullen look. Verb and Noun. 187, 266, etc. --"The sad and glooming cross" ("Christ Dying").

_Goodman_, or _gudeman_; one who holds his house or lands from a superior; unlike _laird_, who owns no superior but the king. 16, 18, etc. --_Goodwife_. 34.--See Luke xii. 39.

_Good cheap_; very cheap, gratuitous. But probably _cheap_ is here a Noun, "_chap_," equivalent to "_bargain_." 104, 105, 121, 186, 215, 245, 249. --"_Better cheap_." 216. --See _Cheap_.

_Gone_; ruined, hopeless. 183.

_Gowk_; a simpleton. --"_Gowket_," acting like a simpleton, or put in a foolish position. 151, 232, 256.

_Grace_; to give favour and honour to a person, to adorn; sometimes to get mercy. 12, 29, 133, 237, 275.

_Grammercy_; thanks. 249. --French, "grand-merci."

_Green_; to long after. 85, 160, 213, 226, etc.

_Grip_; a grasp, firm hold, clasp. 22, 24, etc. --"Grips," close quarters, fight. 294.

_Ground_; bottom. 85, 99, 203, 287. Out at the ground. 287. --"_Ground-stone_;" foundation-stone; from the very foundation. 74, 82, 248. --"_Grounds_;" dregs of a cup. 251.

_Guide_; to manage or to make use of. 256, 275.

_Guise_; manner, way (French). 101, 164, 172. --Bunyan, in his History of Badman: "One _guise_ for abroad, another for home."

_Gutters_; pools of dirty water, marks made by the tears that soil the face. 138, 194.

_Hable_; able. Fr., _habile_. 325. --Rollock (Lect. li.), "hability and strength." Trappe on Rom. vi. 22, "Our hability for obedience."

_Halfer_; an equal sharer. 200, 245, 249. --Written "_halver_" also.

_Half-hungered_; left in a hungry state. 26.

_Half-marrow_; a married partner. 183, 270.

_Half-tiner_; half-loser. 182.

_Hall_; the "_hall-house_," or _ha-house_, the mansion-house. So in sermon on John xx. 13, 285. --_Hall-binks_; seats of honour.

_Handfast_; to join hands in betrothing, to affiance. 143, 173, 225.

_Handgrips_; grasping close. 87, 106.

_Handsel_; to use for the first time. 239.

_Handwrite_; written with one's own hand. 270.

_Hard._ --See _Heads_.

_Hardly_; with difficulty. 232.

_Haunt up_; be up frequently in his company. 84. --Fullerton of Earlton, in his "Turtle Dove," speaks of Christ and His saints; "with whom espoused now He _haunts_ in heavens of bliss."

_Hause_; to clasp or close with. 69. --Gawin Douglas uses it for "embrace;" from "hals," the neck or throat.

_Have_; to "_have over_," to let alone, be done with. 87, 106.

_Head of Wit_; a wiseacre, one who affects to have much wisdom. 230, 234. --"_Hard-heads_;" the name of a small coin. 270. --Knox's "History," etc. See note in Letter 270.

_Heap-mete_; heaped up measure, full measure. 249.

_Hear_; to attend, to treat, serve. 195.

_Heartsome_; happy, cheerful. 32, 51, 167. --"Clear, bright, and heartsome morning" (Sermon on Zech. xi. 9). So heartful. 99.

_Heaven-name_; name he bears in heaven. 301.

_Hell-hot_; hot as hell. 357.

_Hereaway_; in this quarter. 50, 286, 336, etc. In this present life, in this world.

_Herry_; cruelly spoil, or rob. 52.

_Hesp_; hank or hasp of yarn. 196.

_Hide_; the skin. 198. --In "Christ Dying," he speaks of the skin or hide of the visible hearers.

_Hing_; for hang. 104, 249.

_Ho_; cessation, to cause to stop. 167.

_Hold-draw_; struggle with. 137.

_Holding_; tenure. 284. So in sermon on Rev. xix.

_Hole_ (sometimes spelt "holl"); to make a hole, to pierce, dig out. 103, 177, 196. --"_Holey_," or "_holie_;" full of holes. 83, 196, 258.

_Homely_; familiar, at home with one. 59, 105, 130, etc.

_Home over_; homewards. 28, 205, 211, etc.

_Homeward_; in its own favour. 163.

_Honesty_; kindly dealing. 69-76.

_Hook_; sickle, reaping-hook. 16, 21, 224, etc. "Mowers with the scythe and hook." Sermon at Kirkmabreck, 1630.

_Hope_; consider. 204, 295.

_Horning_; a legal demand for payment of a debt under threat of imprisonment and being proclaimed rebels. It used to be proclaimed by sound of horn in the market-place. 130.

_Horologue_; a watch. From the Greek. --An old tower at Montrose bore the name of "The Horologue Tower." 238, 289. Rutherford in a sermon before the House of Lords speaks of "Time's horologue, set agoing by God at the Creation."

_House_; "take up his house." 250. Enter on housekeeping.

_Howbeit_; although. --See our Version of the Bible.

_Huge_; vast, very great. 189, 288, etc. --"I am _hugely_ pleased with your letter," says Waterland, in a letter to T. Boston (App. to Life). In Forbes, on Rev. xix., "huge matter of God's praise." In Rutherford's Treatise on Prayer, "heaven is a huge thing," p. 97. 305.

_Hungredly_; on spare diet. 282.

_Hungry of heart_; heart-hungered. 203.

_If_; but that. 342.--_O if._ 206.

_Ill_; in the phrase, "_Ill to please_," difficult to please. 131.

_Ill-flitten_; misplaced. 106. _Q.d._ removed to a wrong place.

_Ill-friended_; without friends. 96. --Zachary Boyd uses this word in "Last Battle," p. 410.

_Ill-learned_; taught evil. 276.

_Ill-ravelled_; sadly entangled. 196.

_Ill-waled_; ill-selected. 326.

_Ill-washen_; dirty. 227, etc.

_Improbation_; action to prove forgery, or that the person had no right to what he claimed. 178.

_Incontinently_; immediately, as if unable to restrain himself. 241.

_Indent_ Its common English sense occurs in Letter 288, to set in corresponding notches. But also to sign a paper containing agreement to certain articles. 173. --Zachary Boyd's "Samson" has, "As I indented, so I'll undertake."

_Ingyne._ 64. --See _Engyne_.

_Inhibit_; forbid.

_Instant_; earnest. 16.

_Instruct of_; instruct concerning. 225.

_Instruments, to take_; to take documents from the hand of the proper party by way of attestation. 107, 110, 144, etc.

_Interdict_; forbid by positive injunction to do or use a thing for a time, to enter on possession.

_Into_; for in. 336. --Rollock (Lect. xlvii.): "When the Spirit is wrestling _into us_."

_Intromit_; intermeddle, a law phrase; handle. 82, 105.

_In-under_; close under. 260.

_Irresponsal_; not able to pay, insolvent. 104, 204.

_Jealousy_; suspicion. So the Adjective. 74, 144, 148, 152, etc.

_Jouk_; to bend down, in order to escape a storm or a stroke; to dissemble, compromise. 16, 181, 284.

_Kep_; intercept, catch when falling. 165.

_Kind_; nature. 276. --"Man doth _his kind_ in committing evil," says Trappe on Gen. vii. 21; that is, does what his nature leads to.

_Kindly_; what our kindred give us right to. 261. Also according to nature; natural. 66, 98, 102, 254. --In "Christ Dying" (p. 30) we find, "The life of Christ had infirmities _kindly_ to it."

_Kingly._ 55, 61, 281, 363; and used by him on his deathbed.

_Kinless_; who have no kindred. 250.

_Knot_; difficulty to be solved. 312. --Rollock (Lect. li.) speaks of "getting office with a knot" --a difficulty accompanying it.

_Knottiness_; full of knots. 287.

_Lair_; a bog. 110. "To lair" is to stick in the mire.

_Laird._--See _Goodman_.

_Lap_; the loose part or fold of a garment. 78.

_Laureation_; obtaining or conferring academic honours. 274.

_Law-biding._ 106, 231, 299.--See _Bide_.

_Law-burrows_; giving a pledge not to injure. --See _Burrows_. 61, 66, 163, 184, 275, etc.

_Lea_; an unploughed part of a field, where the grass grows. 75, 234.

_Lead._ In the phrase, "_Lead stones to a wall_;" convey them, _q.d._ by leading the horse and cart. 24.

_Leal_; honest, genuine, loyal. 182, 225.

_Learn_; in the sense of "to teach." 175, 199, 222.--(German, "_lehren_.")

_Leave_; dismissal from a situation. 277, 311.

_Leavings_; the overplus of the feast.

_Leck_; a leak. 130. --In Row's "History" (398) we find, "The ship being _leck_."

_Leel-come_; what has been got in an honest way. 182.

_Lee-side_; sheltered side. 115.

_Leme_; earthen; our "_loam_." Lat., "_limus_." 182. --In Row's "Hist." (260), "A leme pig" is an _earthen jug_. Rutherford in a sermon on Dan. vi. 26 speaks of the potter making a "leme vessel."

_Let_; to hinder. --"_To let in_," to admit. To let on. 182. To seem to notice.

_Lift_; part of a load. 298.

_Lightly_, a Verb; to trifle with. 201, 260, 272. Knox and Rollock use this word.

_Like_; same as _likely_; probable. 21, 267, 384. --"_The like of_;" such as. 92, 158, 275, 284, 336.

_Lippen_; to trust, entrust. 69, 182, 260.

_Lith_; a joint. --"The shoulder-blade _out of lith_." Sermon, 1634. The A.S. word for the joints of the body. 86, 167.

_Lone_; one's self, alone. 49, 162, 192, etc.

_Long._ "Think long;" to weary for. 14, 93, etc.

_Loof_; the palm of the hand. --Gaelic, "_lambh_." 77, 122.

_Look by_; neglect, look aside. 23.

_Loun_; a rogue, worthless fellow; _q.d._ low one. 116, 160, 232, 241.

_Love-blinks_; love-glances.

_Low_; of low stature. 236.

_Lucks-head_; chance of winning, prospect of success. 178, 182. Brown of Wamphray, p. 150, "Swan-Song."

_Lust_; to desire a thing. 226, 276.

_Lustred_; made to shine, 89, 117, 191. --Noun, 75, 260, 289, 295, 297, 298. A fair, shining look.

_Mail_; rent, tax. --"_Mail free_;" rent free. 29, 50, 284, 321.

_Mailing_; sometimes written "_mealing_;" a farm, for which rent is paid. 29, 50.

_Make_; to mould, turn to use. 145.

_Make on_; to make up by putting the fuel in order. 32.

_Make up with._ 247. Become friends with.

_Man_, a Verb; "to man the house," act as the goodman of the house, attending to visitors, etc. 142.

_March-boundary_; limit. 82, etc. --"March-stones;" 278. In his Treatise on Prayer, he calls Christ, as God-man, "the common march-stone."

_Market-sweet_ (like "eye-sweet"); pleasing to the frequenters of the market; suitable for sale, and so set up in open market. 213, 216, 237.

_Marrow_; a match, companion. 26, 133, 148, etc. --"Marrowless" occurs, 180. Unequalled; peerless.

_Mask_; to infuse. 287.

_Masterless_; owned of no one. 120.

_Mealing._ --See _Mailing_. 50.

_Mean_; to consider, reckon. 86, 250. Noun; resource, 257.

_Meikle_; much. "Meikle world's good," as much as having a world's good things. 165, 180, 225.

_Melancholious_; melancholy. 293.

_Mends_; reparation of a wrong. 14. --"_To the mends_;" to boot, besides, add to that.

_Midses_; means, instrumentality. 190, 317.

_Mid-way_; courses. 190.--Half and half, undecided.

_Minch_; cut into small pieces. 127.

_Mind_; remember, take care to speak of. 333, 334, 342.

_Mint_; to attempt, intend at doing, essay. 29, 92, 188, etc.

_Mired_; plunged into mire, soiled. 174.

_Misbelief_; wrong belief. 112, 143.

_Miscall_; give wrong names to. 322, etc.

_Misconstruct_; misconstrue. 285.

_Miscount_; erroneous calculation. 133.

_Misken_; to misunderstand, overlook, to treat as if unknown. 89, 99, 102, 148, 181, etc.

_Misleard_; indiscreet, rude; _q.d. mislearned_. 112, 181.

_Mismannered_; unmannerly. 106.

_Misnurtured_; ill-disciplined, ill-trained. 181, 234.

_Missive_; a letter empowering the person to act. 142.

_Misted._ --See _Bemisted_. 118, 146. Like one in a mist.

_Moderate_, a Verb; to rule over a meeting. 203. --An ecclesiastical phrase from the Latin.

_Moneys_; price. 281.

_Moyen_; means; interest; influence. 59, 116, 119, etc.

_Muir-ground_; waste land covered with heath. 157, 298.

_Naughty_; vile, worthless. 77, 81, etc. --Bunyan calls Badman, "a man left to himself, a _naughty_ man."

_Nay-say_; denial. 80, 231. --In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7: "Christ gave the devil three nay-says."

_Near-hand_; near at hand. 29, 79, 191, etc.

_Need-force_; by sheer necessity; or, by hook or crook. 71, 179, 205, etc. Under plea of necessity.

_Nether_; the lower; not high enough. 245.

_Newings_; novelties; _q.d. new things_. 29.

_Nice_; chary, capricious, ill to please. 81, 226.

_Nick_; mark, notch, point. 70, 249, etc.

_Niffer_; exchange, barter. 140, etc.

_Nigh-hand_; near. 183, 347.

_Night-glass_; hour-glass. 281.

_Non-entry_; money, or rents, due to the superior by an heir on coming to his property; or the state of one who is heir, but has not yet got the legal investiture. 222, 256.

_Nor_; than. 144, 307.

_Noughty_; useless, worthless, nothing in it. 175, 200, 225. --Sibbs, "Others that are nought" (on 2 Cor. i. 4).

_Nurture_; discipline. 70, 98, 206. --The Verb, to use discipline. 299.

_Odds_; difference. 294. --Also _odd_; any leisure time.

_Of._ The use of the preposition "of" is common and peculiar to the time in such phrases as "Dear of a drink of water;" at the price of. 148. --"Content of." 45. --"Understood of." 51. --Is it from the French

"de?" Old Chaucer sings: "And all the orient laugheth of delight" (Knight's Tale).

_Off-fallings_; droppings, remnants, 70, 169, 285. John Livingstone writes: "Compared with Christ Himself, what is all this but the _off-fallings_."

_Oh if._ 180, 204, etc. --"_Oh if_," 152. What would you say if.

_Oh that!_ in the sense of _Alas_! 189. So "_Oh for_." 97.

_Old-dated_; antiquated, 320.

_Once_; one time or other, sooner or later. 62, 112, 143, 152, 170, 217, 255, 270, 330. Knox uses it often thus. Also, once for all; altogether.

_Once-errand_; on the sole business. 210, 301.

_Opposites_; opponents. 231.

_Or._ --See _Then_.

_Order_; take order is an old English phrase for "take measures." 18.

_Ordinarily_; usually. 144.

_Other_; ought else. 68, 77. --_Others_; each other. 82.

_Out_, a Noun; laying out, exhibiting for sale. 277.

_Outcast_; a contention, quarrel. 239, 274, 275. --In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7 he says: "After a sore _outcast_, there is greater love betwixt Christ and His people than before."

_Outfield_; waste land, covered with heath. 256, 261.

_Outgate_; way of escape, outlet. "Make home over us, go homeward."

_Over_; in the phrase "_over-little_," too little. 257.

_Overmist_; rise over like a mist. 189.

_Over-watered_; plated over. 299.

_Oyess_; the French _Oyez_; the crier's "Hearken." The Verb, to denounce one by public proclamation. 249.

_Paces_ (from French "_peser_," to weigh, and old English "to paise"); the weights of a clock. He uses the same figure in a sermon on Song v. 1. 189, 197, 199, 292.

_Packald_; burdens, things packed up. 198.

_Packs_, or _paiks_; a severe blow. "_Paiks_ the man," the man soundly beaten. 138.

_Pact._ 230.

_Paiks._ --See _Packs_.

_Painful_; taking pains, laborious. 188. --See _Baxter_, etc.

_Paintry_; painting. 83.

_Panged_; quite full, crammed; "_Pang-full_." 225.

_Pantry_, a Verb; to lock up in the cupboard. 110.

_Pasch_; Passover, or Easter. 51. (Acts xii. 4; πασχα.)

_Pass from_; used of a summons; not enforce it.

_Passments_; strips of lace sewed on dress by way of ornament. 42, 75, 275.

_Pawn_; pledge. "_Pawn-clay_;" a thing of dust, and that is only partly ours. 77, 130, 139.

_Perqueer_; the French _par cœur_; by heart, perfectly. 204.

_Pertinacy_; same as pertinacity.

_Pickle_; small grain. 22, 186, 197.

_Piece-withered_; withered patches. 254.

_Pinning_; a small stone to fill up a crevice. 211, 239. In a sermon on Zech. xi. 19 he says: "Would they give Christ no room? Might they not have made Him _a pinning_?" R. Blair's "Life" (p. 115). "Weak _pinnings_ are very useful in building a wall; and so are _graces_, though they are not the foundation."

_Playmaker_; director of the play. 70.

_Plea_; a quarrel between parties. 240, etc.

_Plenishing_; furniture, possessions. 4, 133, 258. The Verb, fill. 247, 250, 326.

_Ply_; a fold or turn. Verb; to ply, applied to a ship. 95, 105, 152.

_Poind_; to distrain, make seizure of goods. 160. "Drive the poind" is to drive away the cattle thus seized.

_Point_; to fill up crevices in a wall with lime and little stones. 299.

_Port_; gate. 241, 336, 339. --"He went out at the ports, bearing His cross." Sermon on Heb. xii.

_Pose_; a hoard, store. 206. --In a sermon by Rutherford, we find the "_miser's hoard_" called "the wretch's pose."

_Prevent_; anticipate. 297. Be first in acting.

_Prig_; to chaffer or higgle about a thing. 21, 81.

_Proctor-fee._ 285. A fee to the procurator, one who manages a cause, paid when the suit is ended.

_Professor_; in the sense of confessing or professing the faith. 105, 284, 292, 304.

_Propine_; Noun and Verb; hold out a gift, to present. 37, 88, 130, 165. Used as a Noun, 29.

_Put_; to "put" as a ram, push, help. --"_Put by_;" to put away from, cause to pass by. 111. --"_Put it down_;" make it more easily swallowed. 62. --"_Put off_;" spend time. 162. Also, put aside as finished. 190. --"_Put to_;" apply; also to shut. 97, 275. --"_Put upon_;" urge, to set on one in the way of importunity. 7, 12. --To cause difficulty. 319. --"_Put up_;" push up. 29.

_Quarrelous_; fault-finding, provoking to quarrels. 184, 189, 239. --He writes it "_querulous_" in his "Christ Dying," p. 179: "Querulous love-motions against the reality of Christ's love."

_Quick_; alive. 61, 265.

_Quit_; to set one free from. 224, 268.

_Ragged_; torn and incomplete. 151.

_Ravel_; disorderly twisting of threads. 196.

_Reckon_; consider of importance. 230, 233.

_Red_, Adj., in the phrase, "_red hunger_," intensive. 213. --"_Red war_," and "_red wet_," means soaked in wet.

_Redd up_; to clear up, settle. 34, 38, 48, 136, etc.

_Refreshful_; full of refreshment. 333.

_Registrate_; to register, to protest. 85, 249. --See _note_.

_Repair_; make amends to. 312.

_Resemble_; to represent. 3.

_Respective_; to each individual. 136. --Is this Sibbs' meaning, "Every saint has something lovely and respective in him" (on 2 Cor. i. 1)? But, also, Sibbs uses it for _respectful_: "Dependency is always very respective." And so Ferguson on Col. iii. 22: "Servants respective to their masters." --See _Disrespective_. Letters 321, 360.

_Responsal_; solvent, able to pay. 231.

_Rest_; in the Latin sense, "_remains_." 244.

_Reverence_; _q.d._ rendering homage, power. 30, 43, 233, 298. --"_I will not be in your reverence_" was a phrase for, "I will not submit to your dictation."

_Reversion_; the right held by some one to the future possession of an estate. 148.

_Rid_ (see _Redd_); annihilate. Participle, put away. 133.

_Ridable_; can be crossed on horseback. 160.

_Rifle_; same as _ruffle_. 158.

_Rift_; a rent, crack. 241, 284. --Verb, to vomit, or come back with violent retching. 72. --_Rifty_; broken, full of rents. 120.

_Right_, Verb; to put right. 196.

_Rights_; title-deeds. 77.

_Rink_; the ring, or race-course. 122, 276, 286.

_Ripe_; to examine and search carefully. Connected with "rip up." 203.

_Rive_; rend, tear; break up. 16, 50, 72, etc.

_Rooftree_; the beam that runs across the roof, and supports the rafters. 270.

_Room_; place. 22, etc.

_Round_; whisper or sing in the ear. (German, _raunen_.) 293.

_Roup_; set up to sale by action. 37, 131, 199, etc.

_Rovers_; "at rovers," at random. 182.

_Roving_; wandering through excitement of mind, raving. 161.

_Rub_; trouble. 323.

_Rue_; to repent, be sorry, 115. --"_Rue upon_;" take pity. 21, 69, 186, etc.

_Run by_; run past. 226.

_Rush_; to push forward with violence. 270. --See _note_.

_Sad_; settled, solid, real. 62, 75, 99, 163, 191, 203. --It is from old English "_set_," settled down. Wickliffe's Bible, Rom. xv. 1: "We that are _sadder_ men" (stronger). Pilkington on Neh. iv.: "A good builder digs down to the _sad_ earth."

_Salt_; bitter, unpleasant, sarcastic. 115. --In his "Christ Dying," p. 690, he says: "A violent death hath a _salter_ bite."

_Sanded_; driven on the sands. 217.

_Scad_; the red tinge of a burn. "_Scadded_ and burnt in the furnace" (Rutherford's "Cov. of Life," p. 69). The tinge given by reflected light. 291. It is connected with "_scald_."

_Scaur_, or _scar_; to boggle, take fright. 70, 119, 183, etc.

_School-heads_; worldly wise. 337.

_Second_, Noun and Verb; one who helps. --Often used by Lord Kenmure in "Last Speeches." 2, 91, 247.

_Seen-in_; experienced in a matter. 86.

_Set_; it becomes, 260; disposed, 120. --"_Set to_;" engage, set about. 110, 145, 179, 235.

_Set-rent_; full rent.

_Shake_; to push aside, push out.

_Shell_ of a balance; the scale. 268.

_Short_; in temper hasty, rash. 153. --"_Shortly_;" forthwith. 249. --"_Short-dated_;" lasting only a short time. 196.

_Shute_; sometimes written _shoot_; to push in, shove back. 20, 29, 158, 163. --"Satan shutes in his teeth," occurs in Rutherford's "Christ Dying."

_Sib_; nearly related to. 106, 212, 245, etc. --"We behoved to be as _sib_ as brethren." Sermon.

_Sicht_, or _sight_, a Verb; to examine narrowly, _q.d._ by close sight. 12. It occurs in Row's "History" often.

_Sicker_; strong. 107.

_Silly_; poor, frail, pitiful. 27, 184.

_Silver_, or _siller_; money. 254.

_Sing_; in the phrase, "_Sing_ dumb," be reduced to silence. 128.

_Singly_; with a single mind. 83.

_Sink_; a common sewer. 272, 276.

_Sit with_; to endure in patient silence. 52, 63. Submit to. 43. Treat with carelessness.

_Skaill_; disperse, scatter. 160, 190, 241, etc.

_Skaith_; harm. 285.

_Skaur._ --See _Scaur_.

_Skink_; formally renounce, or bid farewell to. 85, 88. --In A.S., the Verb is "to give drink;" in German, "_schenken_," to give. It is _q.d._ take leave by giving a present, or by drinking a farewell.

_Slot_; a moveable bolt; bar. 29, 47, 48.

_Sned_; to prune, lop off, make tidy. 298.

_Solacious_; full of cheer, or comfort. 105.

_Soldiers-stately_; in Letter 63. It might have been noticed that old editions make this one word equivalent to "a spirit becoming a soldier;" like Milton's "timely-happy spirits." Joseph Alleine's "Life" has, "holy-taking rhetoric." Others point thus, "Your soldier's stately spirit." So, "_heavenly-wise_." 191.

_Some._ 64, 214. For somewhat.

_Sometimes_; properly "_some-time_;" on former days, once on a time. 28, etc. --In our Version of the Bible, Eph. ii. 3; 1 Pet. iii. 20.

_Soon-saddled_; hasty in temper. 189. --Little time taken to get on the saddle.

_Soul-couper_; a jobber in souls. 330. --See _Coup_.

_Souple_; same as _supple_. 132.

_Spaits._ --See _Speat_.

_Sparing_; niggardly. 222.

_Spark_; to squirt out. 163.

_Sparkle_; to spark out, scatter sparks. 263. --Chaucer speaks of the shepherd seeking his "_sparkeland sheep_," i.e. scattered.

_Speat_, or _spait_; a flood, overflowing stream. 37, 248, 285. (Gaelic, "_speid_"), a river-flood.

_Speed_; to "come speed" is to succeed.

_Speir_, or _speer_; ask questions at. --"_Speer out_," search out by questions. 180.

_Spelk_; to truss, support by splinters. 107, 128. (Saxon word.)

_Spill_; spoil, mar, or injure. 22, 310, etc. --So Ps. lxiii. 9, in Rous' version; a child spoiled by indulgence.

_Spring_; a tune, sprightly air. 181, 182, 214.

_Spunk_; a spark. 215.

_Stalks._ In Letter 17, "to keep the stalks," is the reading of some old editions; but in another Letter, 194, "keep the stakes." If the former, the sense is, "to get only the withered stalks to keep," Song ii. 14 specially; if the latter, "get what they deposited."

_Stand upon_; require the help of. 81.

_Standing drink._ 177.--Like the stirrup-cup handed to a friend as he stood at the door.

_Startle_; ran up and down in excitement, as cattle do in hot weather; act extravagantly. 69, 75, 182, 258.

_Starts._ "At starts;" fitfully. 7, 293. --"_Start to the gate._" --See _Gate_.

_State_; the mode of putting or stating a question. 214, 245, 278, 333, 359. --"_Stated_;" set down. 359.

_Sted_; a place, a foundation for a house, a site. 18. So used by Gawin Douglas. --"_Stedable_," _q.d._ able to furnish a foundation; available, serviceable. 170, 252.

_Stent_; to fix at a certain rate, and no more. 249. In Fullerton's "Turtle Dove:" "He stented twice on the horologue."

_Still_; always, ever. 87, 108, 133, 285. In our metre version of the Psalms it occurs, _e.g._ Ps. ciii. 9, "Keep His anger still."

_Stob_; a stake sharpened at the end. 240.

_Stock of cards_; a pack of. 194.

_Stoop_; to make a stoop is to bow low. 287.

_Stop-hole_; anything to fill up a hole. 239.

_Stot_; a rebound. 249. --"_To keep stots_;" keep pace with, to rebound regularly. 236.

_Stound_; a stroke that suddenly over-powers and produces faintness. 167.

_Stoup_; a stake, post, prop. 84, 196.

_Suit_; urge a suit, woo, solicit. 19, 26, 37, 355, etc.

_Sundry_; separate. 247. --"_Sunder_," part from, the Verb. 264.

_Sure_; surely. 359, etc.

_Suspension_; an act in law, suspending final execution of a sentence. 230.

_Swatter_; to move, or toss about, as a duck in the water. 178. --R. Blair (see "Life" by Row) uses it in a poem,--

"Out of the dreary vale of tears My soul hath _swattered_ out."

Rollock (Lect. xxxviii.): "He swatters and swims."

_Swear one's self bare_; swear that you have given up everything. 285.

_Sweer_; lazy, reluctant. 178, 230, 285.

_Tack_; stitch, hold, tie. 275. Also, possession by lease. 284.

_Tailzie_; a Scotch law term for entail or charter of entail. 32.

_Take up house_; enter on housekeeping. 250. --_I take myself_. 98. --_I retract my word._

_Taken up with_; occupied with. 185.

_Taking_; that is, attractive. 305. South's sermons has it.

_Tarrow_; to be pettish at, reluctant. 23, 118.

_Tell_; count up. 85, 167, 241, 249, 265. --"_Telling_;" something to mark down. 209.

_Testificate_; certificate, testimony to character. 149.

_That_; often for "so;" _e.g. that_ much. 41, 59, 85, 293.

_Then_; in that case. 24, 39, 220, 238, 241. --"_Or then_;" if that be not so, otherwise. 43, 46, 72, 323.

_Thereanent_; regarding this. 110.

_Thereaway_; to or in that quarter. 133.

_Therefor_; on account of this. 34. --See _note_.

_Thick_; a crowd or throng. 209, 225, 251. --Adjective; very familiar with one. 94, 128.

_Thieves'-hole_; a prison. 178.

_Thin._ 223. --_Thin-skinned_; soft. 256.

_Think long._ 16, 207, 133, 151, etc. --See _Long_. --It is still common to write, "I think long after you."

_Threap_; to assert vehemently, over and over. 85.

_Thring_; to push in by force. 147, 226, 282.

_Throng_; the multitude and the busy part. 206. --_Thronging_; crowding in. 180, 206.

_Through other_; one thing blended with the other, promiscuously. 226, etc.

_Tig_; dally, toy with. 48. --Also a civil sort of begging, when a new-married person brought his cart to the house of friends, that they might put in something to his store.

_Timeous_; early, seasonable, opportune. 180, 212, 275. --So Knox uses it; and our metre version of Psalms, cxix. 148.

_Tine_; to lose. 182, 226, etc.

_To_; used for "in comparison of," in the phrase, "little to." 361.

_Tocher_; a marriage dowry. "Tocher-good." 265, 285.

_Toom_; quite empty; nothing in it. 138, 178, 188, etc.

_Topic-maxim_; a maxim for general use. 259, 260.

_Tops_; to be "on one's tops," to assault or oppose. 231. --"To tope" is to oppose. "He has continued all his days _on tops with_ God, and will not make peace with Him." Durham Sermon 54, Isa. liii.

_Totch_; a push. 183. --See _note_.

_Touches_; to "keep touches," 121, an English phrase for the exact performance of an engagement.

_Towe_; rope made of tow, a hauser. 196.

_Train_; to draw, entice. 30. --It is French, _trâiner_.

_Trance_; passage. Latin, _transitus_. 26.

_Tree_; for the _wood_ of a tree. 225. --As in sermon on Rev. xix.

_Trindle_; same as _trundle_. 107.

_Truant_; pretended, like boys' pretences for play. 181.

_Tryst_; to appoint a meeting at a certain place and time. Noun and Verb. 176, etc.

_Turnpike_; stair that winds. 300.

_Tutor_; to discipline. 282.

_Twin_; to separate. 82. --It is _q.d._ to make into two.

_Unco_; uncommon, strange. Same originally as _uncouth_, and so written very often. --Noun; _Unconess_; 179.

_Undercote_, or _undercoat_; fester _under the skin_ (_coat_ is "_cutis,_" skin). 66, 82, 151, 284. --Calderwood in his "History" uses this word, v. 658.

_Under-tools_; lesser tools. 311.

_Under-water_; bilge-water. 82, 86, 203, 284.

_Unfriend_; less than friendly. 178.

_Unheartsome_; sad. 277.

_Unlaw_; transgress the law; also, to fine for transgressing the law. 201.

_Unrid_, or _unred_. 133. --It is _q.d. unred-up_; the boundaries not fixed. --In A.S., _unrid_ is "disorderly."

_Upsun_; the sun above the horizon.

_Uptaking_; as a Noun, apprehension, 56, 275; as an Adjective, exhilarating, or exalting, 210.

_Vaccane_, or _vacanse_; vacation, holidays. 84.

_Vively_; in a lively manner, to the life. 4.

_Voyage_; journey. 226. --The French "voyage," from _via_.

_Wad-fee_; the sum paid in hiring, as a pledge of the person being engaged. --_Wad_ is a pledge. --See Wed.

_Wadset_; to pledge in mortgage, alienate by reversion. 79, 191, 201, 206, etc. --Noun, the money paid in hiring as a pledge of engagement. 182.

_Wager_; something hazarded. 220. A pledge. 170.

_Wair'd_, or _wared_. --See _Ware_.

_Wale_; to choose (Noun and Verb), select out of other articles. 39, 192, etc.

_Walkings_; weights of a clock. 199. --Possibly the _waggings_ of the pendulum, though some say it is the striking of the hour that "_waukens up_." It is connected with _motions_. 292, 342.

_Wandhand_; the hand that holds the rod, or whip, as the hand that guided the horse was the working hand. 186.

_Want_; to be destitute of. 95.

_Ward_; guard. 254.

_Ware_; to expend, use. 37, 104, 201, 228, etc.

_Warmly_; heart-warming. 227.

_Washen_; washed or whitened, with fair appearance. 167.

_Waster_, Adj.; prodigal, wasteful. 226.

_Watch-glass_; hour-glass. 276.

_Watered_; plated over. 206, 280. --"The watering will go off and leave nothing but dross" is a sentence in a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7.

_Wed_; a pledge or fee. Written also _wad_. --Our "wedding" is a derivative, signifying the security or pledge given by the parties.

_Weight_, or _wecht_; to put on a weight or burden, depress. 115, 159. In one of his sermons he says, "Death did not weight the martyrs. "--"_To bear weight_," 249, is to stand the weighing.

_Well_; a Noun for _weal_, welfare. 72, 202. --"_Well is me_;" it is good for me. 120, 222, 250, 257, etc. --"_Wellcome_;" come in an honest way. 162, 182.

_Well-wared_; well laid out. 104. --Well deserved. 203.

_Wersh_; saltless, insipid. 182.

_While_, or _whill_; till. 12, 24, 44, etc.

_Whiles_; at times. 102, 182.

_White_; the _white_ is the mark aimed at, the bull's eye. 194.

_Whiten._ 287. Like a stick from which the bark is stript.

_Whitsunday_; term day. 21.

"_Who but he?_" a non-such. 23. --See _note_.

_Why but?_ why object although? 295.

_Win_; reach, attain to. 21, 30. --"_Win away_;" to escape from. 6.

_Wind in_; get your way into. 297.

_Windlestrae_ or _windlestraw_; from _Windel_, to hoist about. Used in plaiting. A withered stalk of dog's-tail grass; metaphorically, a mere trifle. 63, 190, 192, 212. --In the "Life" of Pringle of Greenknow, a place is mentioned called "The Windlestraw Law." So Durham on Job, p. 285.

_Wit_; to know. Noun; wisdom, intelligence. 184, 282. --"_Wit's head_;" a wiseacre. 232, 235, 239, 249, 258.

_Wo_, an Adjective; sorrowful. 116, 178, 196. --Generally written "wae" by Scotch writers.

_Wombful_; bellyful. 225.

_Won goods_; goods already got and secured. 128.

_Work on_; it causes care. 230.

_Wrack_; ruin, wreck. 284.

_Wring_; squeeze out water; as Judges vi. 30. 300.

_Writ_; a writing in law. 59, 285, 359. --"_In write_;" by written paper. 359.

_Yoke_; yoke for work; set to, press in. 94, 119, 181, 202. --Noun, _yoking_, a setting to, contest, onset. 117. "He yoked to the Jews early" (sermon on Heb. xii. 1). So Durham on Isa. liii. 8.

_Yonder_; far off in the distance. 245. --"The yonder end."

[532] Apothecary in Edinburgh. See Livingstone's "Charact."

[533] In a sermon at Kirkcudbright on Rev. xix. 11, he introduces the courtiers saying to Daniel, "What need ye _make all the fields ado_ with your prayers?"

NOTE.

There are some words, such as "_Ease-rooms_" and "_Heaven-name_," that seem to be Rutherford's own coining. But these are very few. On the other hand, there is in these Letters what was a characteristic of the style of the times, viz. the use of _synonymous words_, side by side. Thus we have "niffer and exchange;" "feast and banquet;" "unco and strange;" "I dow not, I cannot;" "pledge and pawn;" "wale and choose;" and many more. So Knox speaks of "let and hindrance;" "gauge and pledge." Zachary Boyd speaks of "reekie smoke;" "kindly and natural;" "bag and baggage." In a Number of the "Athenæum," March 1873, no less than twenty instances of this sort, in "Hamlet" alone, are given from Shakespeare.

APPENDIX.

EDITIONS OF RUTHERFORD'S LETTERS.

Row, in his "History of the Kirk of Scotland" (p. 396), wrote in 1650 regarding these Letters:--"Sundry have whole books full of them, whilk, if they were printed, I am confident, through the Lord's rich mercy and blessing, would not fail to do much good." This was written fourteen years before any attempt had been made at collecting them for publication.

I. The First Edition appeared in 1664, in duodecimo. The place of publication is not given on the title-page, these being days of persecution; but it is known to have been _Rotterdam_, in Holland, under the superintending care of Mr. M'Ward, who was once Rutherford's amanuensis. It is divided into two parts, the one containing 215 Letters, the _other_, 71. It has a long recommendatory Preface, containing matter that is of no great interest to us now; but it preserves one weighty saying of this man of God on his deathbed. "When he was on the threshold of glory, ready to receive the immortal crown, he said, 'Now my tabernacle is weak, and I would think it a more glorious way of going home, to lay down my life for the cause, at the Cross of Edinburgh or St. Andrews; but I submit to my Master's will.'"

Here is the original title-page:--

(_First Edition_)

JOSHUA REDIVIVUS.

OR,

_Mr. Rutherford's Letters_,

Divided in two Parts.

_The First_,

Containing those which were written from Aberdeen, where he was confined by a sentence of the High Commission; drawn forth against him, partly upon the account of his declining them, partly upon the account of his Non-Conformity.

_The Second_,

Containing some which were written from Anwoth before he was by the Prelates' Persecution thrust from his ministry; & others upon diverse occasions afterward, from St. Andrews, London, &c.

Now published for the use of all the people of God, but more particularly for those who now are or afterward may be put to Suffering, for Christ and His cause.

_By a Wellwisher to the Work & People of God._

John xvi. 2. "They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. V. 3. And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me."

2 Thess. i. 6. "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; V. 7. And to you who are troubled rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with His mighty angels," &c.

Printed in the Year cI[c] I[c]c LXIIII By some mistake in reading the numeral letters, booksellers' catalogues have spoken of editions in 1662 and 1663; but there were none such. Such a mistake might easily occur in writing the numerals. In a _Manuscript of the Letters_ (kindly forwarded to the Editor by Rev. A. B. Grosart, Kinross), the date of the First Edition is written thus: cIↄ Iↄc; LIIII. Here there is, beyond doubt, a mistake; the X is omitted from LXIIII.; for the MS. is merely a _copy of the First Edition_. It copies out the title-page in full, and then appends this note: "_Intended to be wryten from the printed book, by the wryter, for particular use, and for several reasons unnecessary to be inserted._" Some of the "Testimonies of the Martyrs" are appended, as they appeared in the "Cloud of Witnesses" afterwards. There are now and then marginal notes, all of which are simply hints as to what the Letter contains, thus: "Cause of Rutherford's confinement;" "Comfort for the servants of God and for ministers." The existence, however, of such a MS., copied with such pains from a printed volume, tells the high esteem in which the Letters were held. We may note one small matter. In this MS. the name "_Bethaia_" (so written in all the printed editions) is given "_Bethia_;" showing that the name was so written at _that_ time also, as it is always now.

2. The _Second Edition._--It appeared in 1671, an exact reprint of the first, with the same title-page, etc. But it is very inaccurate; _e.g._ there are ten obvious misspellings of common words in the two first pages, not to speak of _bad punctuation_, which is a fault common to all the early editions.

3. The _Third Edition_, in 1675, retains the original title-page, except that it has, "In _Three_ Parts," and "The _Second_ and _Third_." This last Part contains sixty-eight additional Letters. This edition is the one which subsequent editors follow. It omits the original "Preface to the Christian Reader," and has only four introductory pages, two of which are the advertisement about the lost MS. of Rutherford on _Isaiah_. It has a long "Postscript," in which we cannot say there is much that is important.

4. The Edition of 1692.

5. The Edition of 1709. Edinburgh.

6. The Edition of 1724. Edinburgh. 12mo. "Printed by T. Lumsden and J. Ritchie, and sold at their printing-house in the Fish Market, and by John Paton and James Thomson, booksellers in the Parliament Closs; and sold at Glasgow by John Robertson, James and John Browns, and Mrs. Brown, booksellers. 1724." It is marked "The Fifth Edition." If this means the "fifth" of those editions that contain the "Three Parts," then our list is not complete. But it seems as if the editor had overlooked one of the earlier editions; and if so, this is the sixth.

7. The Edition of 1738. Edinburgh. Marked "Sixth Edition."

8. The Edition of 1761. Edinburgh. In two vols.

9. The Edition of 1765. Glasgow. A good edition. It has the author's Testimony and Dying Words, as well as the original Preface of the earliest edition. It is marked "_Ninth_ Edition."

10. The Edition of 1783. Glasgow. Marked "Tenth Edition." 8vo. Printed by John Bryce.

(The Eleventh Edition we have not seen, but it may be that of 1796.)

11. The Edition of 1802. Aberdeen. Marked "Twelfth Edition."

12. The Edition of 1809. Edinburgh. Marked "Thirteenth Edition."

13. Another in 1818, "One hundred and fifty-two Religious Letters," to which is added a Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649. Octavo.

14. Another in 1821. With a brief notice of the author.

15. The London Religious Tract Society's Edition, first published in 1824. It is properly only a _selection_ of sixty Letters, with extracts from many others. It has "Contents" prefixed to each Letter.

16. Another, 1824. Glasgow. With brief notice of the author.

17. The Edition of 1825. One of "Collins' Select Christian Authors." It passed through three editions. It has a doctrinal Preface by Thomas Erskine, Esq., and gives about one half of the Letters. It has not retained all the peculiar phraseology of the original; but it gives some account of his life, and appends his "Last Words," and his "Testimony to the Covenanted Work of Reformation." _Kenmure_ is misspelt "_Kenmuir_" in the edition of 1825, but corrected in the next.

18. The Edition of 1830. Glasgow.

19. Another in 1834.

20. The Edition of 1836. London: Baisler. Edited by Rev. Charles Thomson. In two vols. It has valuable explanatory notes, and the Letters are, for the most part, arranged chronologically,--a great improvement on the "Three Parts" of so many former editions.

21. The Edition of 1839.

22. The Edition of 1846. Aberdeen: King. This edition is in double columns.

23. The Edition of 1848. Edinburgh: Whyte and Kennedy. With historical and biographical notices, by Rev. James Anderson. The Letters, so far, chronologically arranged, and ten additional Letters given. Contents also, and indices; and a Sketch of Rutherford's Life.

24. The Edition of 1857. London: Collingridge. Edited by Rev. D. A. Doubdney. It has the long Original Preface of 1664, and the Postscript of 1675; also a synopsis of each Letter. But it is not accurate, especially as to proper names.

25. The Edition of 1863. In two vols. It contains Letters 290, 325, 327, 336, 337, 340, 343, 355, 356, 365, not found in any previous edition but that of 1848; as well as 283 and 307, added since then. There are 365 in all; one for each day of the year, if any one chooses.

26. An Edition in octavo, by Rev. J. M'Ewan, Edinburgh,--a reprint of the old. 1867.

27. _Extracts._--There have been abridgments in the form of "Extracts," from time to time. We might give as samples, Jo. Wesley's Extracts (an edition in 1825); John Brown of Haddington's "Pleasant and Practical Hints," selected from the Letters; and recently, "Last Words of S. R., in verse, by A. R. C., with some of his sweet sayings." A variety of such have appeared.

28. Edition 1875. By Dr. Thomas Smith. Preface by Dr. Duff.

29. _Foreign Editions._--1. There is an _American_ Edition; a reprint, by Carter, New York, of the Edition of 1848.--2. A _Dutch_ translation appeared at Flushing in 1673. The translation made by Mr. Koelman, minister of Sluys, with a brief Life. Of this there have been frequent reprints; that of 1754 is in three vols. octavo; another in 1855,--a new translation in double columns, published at Grave.--3. There is also a _German_ translation (see "Mission of Inquiry to the Jews, 1839," ch. v.); but we are not able to give any account of it.

30. This present Edition, 1891. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier. Reprinted 1894.

SAMPLE OF THE OLD ORTHOGRAPHY.

(Letter CCCLI.)

Sir I would ere now have writtin to you had I not knowin yo^r health weaker and weaker could scairclie permitt you to hear. I neid not speak. The way you know and have preached to others the skill off the Gŭijd and the glorie of the hom beyond death And qn he sayes com and sie it will be yo^r gaine to obey and goe out and meett the brydgroom What accessioun is mad to the higher hoŭs off his kingdom sould not be our lose though it be a reall losse to the church of God Bot we count on way and the Lord counts anoy^r way He is jnffallible and the onlie wyse God and needs non of us Had He needed Mosses and the prophetts ther staying in the Bodie he could hav taken an oy^r way Who dar bid you cast your thoughts bak on wyff or children when he hath said Leav yam to me and com up hither or who cane perswad you to die or liv as iff that wer abritarie to us and not his alon who hath determined the number off yo^r moneths. If so it seem good to him follow your forrunner and Gŭyd. It is ane unknowen land to you who was never ther beffor bot the land is good and the company befor the thron desyreable and he who sittes on the throne is alon a sufficient heavin. Grac be with you

St Andrews 15 jun. 1658. Yours in the Lord

S R

[_From a MS. vol. belonging to Mr. Lamb, Dundee._]

LAST WORDS.

Mrs. A. R. Cousin, wife of Rev. W. Cousin, Free Church minister of Melrose, has woven into a delightful poem many of Samuel Rutherford's most remarkable utterances. This piece has become almost a household hymn, known over all our country, and in America no less. It is entitled sometimes by its first line, "The sands of time are sinking," and sometimes, "The Last Words of S. R.," though it takes in many of his sayings, besides his deathbed words.

The sands of time are sinking, Letters 79, 147. The dawn of Heaven breaks, The summer morn I've sighed for, The fair sweet morn awakes: Dark, dark hath been the midnight, But dayspring is at hand, And glory--glory dwelleth Letter 323. In Immanuel's land.

Oh! well it is for ever, Oh! well for evermore, Letter 4. My nest hung in no forest Of all this death-doom'd shore: Yea, let the vain world vanish, As from the ship the strand, While glory--glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

There the Red Rose of Sharon Letters 181, 321. Unfolds its heartsome bloom, And fills the air of Heaven With ravishing perfume:-- Oh! to behold it blossom, While by its fragrance fann'd Where glory--glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

The King there in His beauty, Letters 165, 284, Without a veil, is seen: 291, 318. It were a well-spent journey, Though seven deaths lay between. The Lamb, with His fair army, Doth on Mount Zion stand, And glory--glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

Oh! Christ He is the Fountain, The deep sweet well of love! The _streams_ on earth I've tasted, Letters 288, 317. More deep I'll drink above: There, to an _ocean_ fulness, His mercy doth expand, And glory--glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

E'en Anwoth was not heaven-- E'en preaching was not Christ; Letters 86, 96, And in my sea-beat prison 225, 335. My Lord and I held tryst: And aye my murkiest storm-cloud Was by a rainbow spann'd, Caught from the glory dwelling In Immanuel's land.

But that He built a heaven Of His surpassing love, A little New Jerusalem, Like to the one above,-- Letter 233. "Lord, take me o'er the water," Had been my loud demand, "Take me to love's own country, Unto Immanuel's land."

But flowers need night's cool darkness The moonlight and the dew; So Christ, from one who loved it, His shining oft withdrew; Letter 234. And then for cause of absence, My troubled soul I scann'd-- But glory, shadeless, shineth In Immanuel's land.

The little birds of Anwoth I used to count them blest,-- Now, beside happier altars I go to build my nest: Letters 92, 167, O'er these there broods no silence, 206. No graves around them stand, For glory, deathless, dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

Fair Anwoth by the Solway, To me thou still art dear! E'en from the verge of Heaven Letter 225. I drop for thee a tear. Oh! if one soul from Anwoth Meet me at God's right hand, My Heaven will be two Heavens, In Immanuel's land.

I have wrestled on towards Heaven, 'Gainst storm, and wind, and tide:-- Now, like a weary traveller, Letters 275, 326. That leaneth on his guide, Amid the shades of evening, While sinks life's ling'ring sand, I hail the glory dawning From Immanuel's land.

Deep waters cross'd life's pathway, The hedge of thorns was sharp; Letter 137. Now these lie all behind me-- Oh! for a well-tuned harp! Deathbed, p. 21. Oh! to join Halleluiah With yon triumphant band, Who sing, where glory dwelleth, In Immanuel's land.

With mercy and with judgment My web of time He wove, And aye the dews of sorrow Letters 245, 295, Were lustred with His love. 298. I'll bless the hand that guided, I'll bless the heart that plann'd, When throned where glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

Soon shall the cup of glory Wash down earth's bitterest woes, Soon shall the desert-briar Letters 20, 295. Break into Eden's rose: The curse shall change to blessing-- The name on earth that's bann'd, Rev. ii. 17. Be graven on the white stone In Immanuel's land.

Oh! I am my Belovèd's, And my Beloved is mine! He brings a poor vile sinner Letters 76, 116, Into His "House of wine." 119, 148. I stand upon His merit, I know no other stand, Not e'en where glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

I shall sleep sound in Jesus, Fill'd with His likeness rise, To live and to adore Him, To see Him with these eyes. 'Tween me and resurrection Page 21 of "Life". But Paradise doth stand; Then--then for glory dwelling In Immanuel's land!

The Bride eyes not her garment, But her dear Bridegroom's face; I will not gaze at glory, Letters 21, 168. But on my King of Grace-- Not at the crown He gifteth, But on His piercèd hand: The _Lamb_ is all the glory Of Immanuel's land.

I have borne scorn and hatred, I have borne wrong and shame, Earth's proud ones have reproach'd me, For Christ's thrice blessed name:-- Where God His seal set fairest They've stamp'd their foulest brand; But judgment shines like noonday In Immanuel's land.

They've summoned me before them, But there I may not come,-- My Lord says, "Come up hither," My Lord says, "Welcome Home!" My kingly King, at His white throne, Deathbed saying. My presence doth command, Where glory--glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

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