Chapter XLI: Letter CCCXII: ) (5)

The Lord calleth you, dear brother, to be still "stedfast, unmoveable, and abounding in the work of the Lord." Our royal kingly Master is upon His journey, and will come, and will not tarry; and blessed is the servant who shall be found watching when He cometh. Fear not men, for the Lord is your light and salvation. It is true, it is somewhat sad and comfortless that ye are your lone; but so it was with our precious Master: nor are ye your lone, for the Father is with you. It is possible that I shall not be an eyewitness to it in the flesh, but I believe He cometh quickly who will remove our darkness, and shine gloriously in the Isle of Britain, as a crowned King, either in a formally sworn covenant, or in His own glorious way; which I leave to the determination of His infinite wisdom and goodness. And this is the hope and confidence of a dying man, who is longing and fainting for the salvation of God.

Beware of the ensnaring bonds and obligations, by any hand-writ or otherwise, to give unlimited obedience to any authority, but only in the Lord. For all innocent self-defence (which is according to the Covenant, the Word of God, and the laudable example of the reformed churches) is now intended to be utterly subverted and condemned: and what is taken from Christ, as the flower of His prerogative-royal, is now put upon the head of a mortal power; which must be that great idol of indignation that provoketh the eyes of His glory. Dear brother, let us mind the rich promises that are made to those that overcome, knowing that those that endure to the end shall be saved.

Thus recommending you to the rich grace of God, I remain,

Your affectionate brother in Christ,

S. R.

CCCLXIV.--_To_ [Brethren in] ABERDEEN.

(_SINFUL CONFORMITY AND SCHISMATIC DESIGNS REPROVED._)

REVEREND AND DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD,--Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

There were some who rendered thanks, with knees bowed to Him "of whom is named the whole family in heaven and earth," when they heard of "your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus;" and rejoiced not a little, that where Christ was scarce named, in savouriness and power of the Gospel, even in Aberdeen, there Christ hath a few names precious to Him, who shall walk with Him in white. We looked on it (He knoweth whom we desire to serve in our spirit in the Gospel of His Son) as a part of the fulfilling of that, "The wilderness and solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose" (Isa. xxxv. 1). But now it is more grievous to us than a thousand deaths, when we hear that you are shaken, and so soon removed from that which you once acknowledged to be the way of God. Dearly beloved, the sheep follow Christ, who calleth them by name: a stranger they will not follow, but they flee from him, for they know not the voice of a stranger. Ye know the way, by which ye were sealed to the day of redemption; and ye received the Spirit, by the hearing of faith. Part not with that way, except ye see there be no rest for your souls therein. Neither listen to them that say, "Many were converted under episcopal as well as under presbyterial government, and yet the godly gave testimony against bishops;" for the instruments of conversion loathed Episcopacy, with the ceremonies thereof, and never sealed it with their sufferings. We shall desire instances of any engaged by oaths, and sufferings of the faithful messengers of God, and the manifestations of the Lord's presence, in the way ye now forsake, who yet turned from it, and went one step toward sinful separation (and did it in that way ye now aim at), and did yet flourish and grow in grace. But we can bring proofs of many who left it, and went further on to abominable ways of error. And you have it not in your power where you shall lodge at night, having once left the way of God. And many, we know, lost peace and communion with God, and fell into a condition of withering, and not being able to find their lovers, were forced to return to their first Husband. We shall entreat you, consider what a stumbling it is to malignant opposers of the way and cause of God (who with their ears heard you, and with their eyes saw you, so strenuously take part with the godly in their sufferings, and profess yourselves for religion truth, doctrine, government of the house of God, His Covenant and cause), if now you build again what you once destroyed, and destroy what you builded. And shall you not make yourselves, by so doing, transgressors? How shall it wound the hearts of the godly, stain the profession, darken the glory of the Gospel, shake the faith of many, weaken the hands of all, if you (and you first of all in this kingdom) shall stretch out the hand to raze the walls of our Jerusalem, by reason of which the Lord made her "terrible as an army with banners!" For when kings came, and saw the palaces and bulwarks thereof, they marvelled and were troubled, and hasted away; fear took hold upon them there, and pain as of a woman in travail. And we shall be grieved, if you should be heirs to the guiltiness of breaking down the same hedge of the vineyard, for the which the sad indignation of God pursueth this day the Royal Family, many Nobles, houses great and fair, and all the Prelatical party in these three kingdoms. And when your dear brethren are weak and fainting, shall we believe that you will leave us, and be divided from this so blessed a conjunction? The Lord Jesus Christ, we trust, shall walk in the midst of the golden candlesticks, and be with us, if you will be gone from us. Beloved in the Lord, we cannot but be persuaded better things of you; and we shall not conceal from you that we are ignorant what to answer when we are reproved, on your behalf, in regard that your change to another gospel-way (which the Lord avert!) is so much the more scandalous, that the sudden alteration (unknown to us before) now overtaketh you when men come amongst you against whom the furrows of the fields of Scotland do complain. Forget not, dear brethren, that Christ hath now the fan in His hand, and this is also the day of the Lord, that shall burn as an oven; and that Christ now sitteth as a refiner of silver, purifying the sons of Levi, and purging them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering of righteousness; and those that keep the word of His (not their own) patience shall be delivered from the hour of temptation, that shall come on all the earth to try them.

If ye exclude all non-converts from the visible city of God (in which, daily, multitudes in Scotland, in all the four quarters of the land, above whatever our fathers saw, throng into Christ), shall they not be left to the lions and wild beasts of the forest, even to Jesuits, seminary-priests, and other seducers? For the magistrate hath no power to compel them to hear the Gospel, nor have ye any church-power over them, as ye teach; and they bring not love to the Gospel and to Christ out of the womb with them; and so they must be left to embrace what religion is most suitable to corrupt nature. Nor can it be a way approven by the Lord in Scripture, to excommunicate from the visible church (which is the office-house of the free grace of Christ, and His draw-net) all the multitudes of non-converts, baptized, and visibly within the covenant of grace, which are in Great Britain, and all the reformed churches; and so to shut the gates of the Lord's gracious calling upon all these (because they are not, in your judgment, chosen to salvation), when once you are within yourselves.[527] For how can the Lord call Egypt His people, and Assyria the work of His hands, and all the Gentiles (who for numbers are as the flocks of Kedar, and the abundance of the sea) the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, if you number infants (as many do), and all such as your charity cannot judge converts (as others do) among heathens and pagans, who have not a visible claim and interest in Christ? The candlestick is not yours, nor the house; but Christ fixeth and removeth the one, and buildeth or casteth down the other, according to His sovereignty. We in humility judge ourselves, though the chief of sinners, the sons of Zion and of the seed of Christ; if ye remove from us, and carry from hence the candlestick, let our Father be judge, and show us why the Lord hath bidden you come out from among us. We look upon this visible church, though black and spotted, as the hospital and guest-house of sick, halt, maimed, and withered, over which Christ is Lord, Physician, and Master: and we would wait upon those that are not yet in Christ, as our Lord waited upon us and you both. We, therefore, your brethren, children of one Father, cannot but with tears and exceeding sorrow of heart earnestly entreat, beseech, and obtest you, by the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, by His sufferings and precious ransom which He paid for us both, by the consolations of His Spirit, by your appearance before the dreadful tribunal of our Lord Jesus, yea, and charge you before God and the same Lord Jesus, "who shall judge the quick and the dead, at His appearing, and His kingdom;" break not the spirits and hearts of those to whom ye are dear as their own soul. Forsake not the assemblies of the people of God; let us not divide.

[527] When you yourselves have got safe within.

Not a few of the people of God in this shire of Fife (in whose name I now write) dare say, if ye depart, that ye will leave Christ behind you with us, and the golden candlesticks; and shut yourselves, we much fear, out of the hearts and prayers of thousands dear to Jesus Christ in Scotland. Therefore, before ye fix judgment and practice on any untrodden path, let a day of humiliation be agreed upon by us all, and our Father's mind and will inquired, through our one common Saviour. And let us see one another's faces at best conveniency, and plead the interest of Christ, and be comforted; and not be stumbled at your ways.

So expecting your answer, we shall pray that the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, may make you perfect in every work to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. And I shall remain,

Your affectionate brother in the Lord,

S. R.

ST. ANDREWS.

CCCLXV.--_To MR. JOHN MURRAY, Minister at Methven._[528] [See Letter CCCLVI.]

[528] From the original among the Wodrow MSS. vol. xxvii. fol. No. 18.

(_PROPOSAL OF A SEASON OF PRAYER_.)

REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,--If I rightly apprehend our condition, we are in a way of declining. We were, within these few years, more in the conscionable use of means, and the Lord did shine upon us in some measure; and now we are fallen from that which we were. It is judged fit by some (and many of our solidest professors) that if we cannot have them in congregations, yet families and private persons may have days of humiliation, at least the last Wednesday of every month or thereabout, according to the best conveniency of Providence. And if this were gone about in your country, and in Stirlingshire, Fife, in Merse, Teviotdale, the West, in Nithsdale and Galloway, and other places, it would prove our strength and help; for we are few and very low. Our adversaries are not idle; and there is a faintness and heartless discouragement on the spirits of many. These are to entreat that you would combine with Mr. Robert Campbell,[529] Mr. John Cruickshanks,[530] and other of our brethren in your bounds, to stir up one another that we may wrestle with the Lord for the remnant. I am confident the Lord will yet be inquired of us for this. Though the same particular day be not observed, yet, where many are on work, some salvation from the Lord's arm is to be expected. I am decaying most sensibly, and I should look on it as a mercy if the Lord would send a wakening among His own. And blessed shall he be who shall blow the trumpet to cause other sleeping ones awake, and shall help to build the wastes, and the fallen tabernacle of David. I shall earnestly desire you do bestir yourself herein.[531] I shall write to J----, and to others here, and do the best I can to give you a convenient account; for nothing is left to us but that.

[529] The minister to whom Letter CCCLXIII. is addressed.

[530] Mr. John Crookshanks (as Wodrow spells the name), minister of
Redgorton, in the Presbytery of Perth. He afterwards followed those
who fought at Pentland Hills, in 1665, and was killed in the battle.

[531] Is not this the very spirit of 2 Pet. i. 13, 14, "Yea, I think
it meet to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance; knowing that
shortly I must put off this my tabernacle"?

So remembering me to your wife, and expecting your help, I rest,

Your own brother,

S. R.

[ST. ANDREWS.]

S. R.

Mr. Robert Anderson is most eagerly desired for by the parishioners of Leuchars, and as strenuously opposed by our brethren here.

INDEX

OF

THE CHIEF PLACES AND INDIVIDUALS REFERRED TO IN THE LETTERS.

(_The Figures refer to the Letters._)

Aberdeen, Letter to People of, 364;
referred to, 77, 243, 364.

Abraham referred to, 324.

Abraham, Mr., 24.

Aird, Bethia, 153.

Airds, 59, 217.

Alexander, Sir William, 15.

America, 75.

Anabaptists, 308.

Anderson, Mr. R., 356, 365.

Anwoth, 92, 96, 157, 162, 163, 167, 177, 180, 184, 198, 206,
225, 230, 267, 269, 279, 306, 307.

---- Topography of, 198, and Life.

Antinomians, 308.

Ardross, Lady (H. Lindsay), 321.

Ardwell, 101, 283.

Argyle, Death of, 360.

Ashe, Mr. Simeon, 345.

Assembly, Westminster, 307, 310.

Athernie (in Largo).--_See_ Rigg, 114.

Ayr.--_See_ Kennedy, John.

M. A., 212, 243.

Baillie, Robert, 163, 307.

Balcarras, Earl of, 327.

Ballantyne, Margaret, 79.

Balmerinoch, Lord, 139.

Barcapple, 34.

Barholm, 117 (notice).

Barron, Dr. Robert, 89, 117, 144.

Bautie, James, 249.

Bell, John, 218.

Berwick, 333.

Blackness Castle, 12.

Blair, Isabel.--_See_ Lady Gaitgirth.

---- Mr. Robert, 89, 254.

Bohemia, 62.

Bothwell Bridge, 206.

Boyd, Lady, 77, 107, 167, 210, 245, 277, 294, 299, 303,
309, 321.

---- Lord, 78, 232.

Boyne, 307.

Brethren, to several, 358.

Brisbane, Sarah.--_See_ Rowallan.

Brother, to a Christian, 317.

---- to a minister, 358.

Brown, Fergus, 18.

---- Jean, 18, 32, 84, 111, 131.

---- Patrick, 111.

---- of Wamphray, 131, 243.

Brownists, 303.

Bruce, Mr. James, 146.

Bryce, 231.

Burroughs, Jeremiah, 309.

Burton, D., 17.

---- Henry, 17.

Busbie, the Lady, 133, 120, 270.

Byres, 231.

A. B., 227.

B., 53. R. B., 246.

Caithness, 89.

Cally, Laird of (John Lennox), 198, 202.

Cambridge, 174.

Campbell, John.--_See_ Earl of Loudon.

---- Lady Jane.--_See_ Kenmure.

---- Mr. Robert, 363, 365.

Canons, Book of, 161.

Cant, Mr. Andrew, 179, 206.

Cardoness, the elder (_see_ John Gordon), 82, 166, 180.

---- the Lady (Gordon), 100, 103, 192 199.

---- the younger, 123, 173.

Carleton, Fullerton of, letters to, 157, 169, 176 (referred to,
1, 15, 40, 243, 279).

---- Lady, 254.

Carsen, John, 127, 243.

---- Marion, 32.

---- Patrick, 156.

Carsluth, notice of, 190.

Carsphairn, 28, 102, 357.

Carstairs, John, 336.

Caskeberrie.--_See_ Kaskiberry.

Cassillis, Earl of (John Kennedy), 128, 268, 278.

Cassincarrie (Mure), 191.

Cathcart.--_See_ Carleton.

Christian Brother, 316.

---- Friend, 291, 315.

---- Gentlewoman, 211, 317.

Clark, John, 172.

Colville, Mr. Alexander, 11, 98, 208, 343.

Colwart, Mr. Henry, 90.

Commentaries, proposed, 53, 110.

Corbet, Thomas, 264.

Covenant, 358, 359.

Craig, Mrs., 361.

Craighall, Lord, 86, 99, 174, 220, 227, 236, 257.

Cramond, 43, and 117 (notice).

Crawford, Earl of (_see_ Lindsay), 309.

Cromwell, 329, 331, 339, 346.

Cruickshanks, Mr. John, 365.

Culross, Lady, 62, 74, 178, 222.

Cunningham, Mr. R., 63, 110.

A. C., 189, 209.

Y. C., 76.

C., 44.

Dalgleish, William, 117, 184, 197, 287.

Dalry.--_See_ Earlston.

Dematius, note, 334.

Dickson, Mr. David, 110, 119, 168, 259, 298;
his son, John, 298.

Disdow, 213, 262.

Douglas, Robert, 113.

Dunbar, Battle of, 329.

Dunbar, Mr. George, 265.

Dundrennan, 117 (note).

Dungueich, the Lady, 251.

Durham, Mr. James, 91, 352.

Dury, Mr. John, 91 (notice).

Earlston, elder, 59, 64, 73, 97, 160, 201, 260, 323.

---- the Lady (Eliz. Gordon), 109.

---- younger, 99, 181, 196, 271.

Edinburgh Town Council, 325, 344, 345.

Ellis, Fulk, 234.

Episcopacy, 364, etc.

Erskine, Margaret.--_See_ Lady Marischall.

Ewart, John, 36, 134.

Expecters, 308.

C. E., 92.

Familists, 310.

Fenwick, John, 295.

Fergushill, Mr. John, 112, 187, 188, 275.

Fife, 364.

Fingask, Lady (Moncrieff), 297.

Fleming, Mr. James, 228.

---- John, 68, 159, 241, 266.

Forret, Mr. David, 327.

---- Lady, 125.

Forth, the, 257.

France, 32, 254.

Friend, a Christian, 291, 316.

Fullarton, Margaret, 204.

Fullerton, Grizzel, 5, 155, 339.

---- Mr. W., Provost of Kirkcudbright, 1, 52, 67, 135, 221.

Fullwood, the younger, 224.

F., 17, 254.

R. F., 98.

G. J., 17, 92, 320. (John Gordon?)

Gaitgirth, Lady (Isabel Blair), 187, 239.

---- Laird of, 237.

Galloway, 37.

Galloway, Bishop of (_see_ Sydserff), 161.

Garloch, 65 (notice), 217.

Garven, Mr. Thomas, 152, 165, 246.

Gentlewoman, to a Christian, 2, 211, 318.

---- on husband's death, 105, 122.

---- Letter to one at Kirkcudbright, 25.

George, David, of Delft, 309.

Gillespie, Mr. George, 144, 253, 324.

---- Mrs., 326.

---- Patrick, 337.

Girthon, 198 (notice), 43.

Glasgow, Bishop of, 86, 110.

---- to a minister of, 337.

Glendinning, Mr. Robert, 36, 136.

---- William, 137, 267, 276.

Glendoning, Robert, 36.

---- W., 36.

Goodwin, Thomas, 309.

Gordon, Alex., of Earlston, 59, 73.

---- of Garlock, 65 (notice).

---- Jean, 145.

---- John, at Rusco, 272, 280.

---- John, elder, of Cardoness.--_See_ C.

---- John, younger, of Cardoness.--_See_ Cardoness.

---- of Knockgray, 102.--_See_ K.

---- Mary, of Largmore, 72.

---- Robert, Bailie of Ayr, 129, 200.

---- Robert, of Knockbreck.--_See_ Knockbreck.

---- William, at Kenmure, 203.

---- William, of Roberton, 72.

---- William, younger, of Earlston.--_See_ Earlston.

---- William, of Whitepark, 143.

Greenham, Richard, 159.

Gustavus Adolphus, 16, 48.

Guthrie, Rev. Mr. James, of Stirling, 319, 357, 362.

---- Mr. William of Fenwick, 330.

J. G., 92, 319. (James Guthrie?)

W. G., 222.

Hall, Mr. Gilbert, 357.

Hallhill, the Lady (Learmonth), 148.

Halliday, William, 121.

Hamilton, Barbara, 311, 315.

---- Euphan, 6.

---- Mr. James, 89, 137, 214.

---- John, 8.[532]

Henderson, Mr. Alexander, 115.

---- Mr. Hugh, 138, 194.

---- Mr. John, in Rusco, 150, 207.

Henton, 218.

High Commission, 68, note.

Hog, Mr. Thomas, 245.

Hope, Sir John.--_See_ Craighall.

Hume, Mrs., 314.

---- Mr. William, 312.

Hutchison, George, 344.

Independents, 308, 329.

Ireland, 25, 119, 168, 233, 284, 288.

Jackson, Dr. Thomas, 188.

Jedburgh, 345.

Job, Commentary upon, 58.

Johnston, Sir Archibald, of Warriston, 307.

Kaskeberry, the Lady (Schoneir), 108.

Kells.--_See_ Garlock, and 72.

Kenmure, Viscountess, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 19, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 30,
31, 35, 37, 39, 40, 42, 56, 58, 61, 69, 70, 93, 94, 95, 96,
104, 106, 205, 206, 230, 286, 287, 302, 305, 318, 320, 335,
338, 341, 360.

Kennedy, Elizabeth, 77.

---- Janet, 88, 247.

---- John.--_See_ Earl of Cassillis.

---- John, Bailie of Ayr, 22, 75, 130.

Ker, Col. Gilbert, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 342, 343.

---- John, 47.

Kerr, Robert, 71.

Kilconquhar, Lady, 226, 261.

Kilmalcolm, Parishioners, 286.

Kirkcudbright, 6, 8, 25, 34, 36, 42, 43, 46, 49, 52, 67, 80, 134,
135, 136, 137, 177, 267, 339, 340, 355.

Kirkdale, 117.

Kirkmabreck, 109, 117.

Knockbreck, Gordon of, 65, 66, 76, 92, 170, 285;
referred to, 279.

Knockgray, Gordon of, 102, 154, 182, 223;
referred to, 243.

Knox, John, 12.

C. K., 349.

Largirie, Lady, 195, 250.

Largmore, 72.

Laurie, John, 175.

Law, James, 86, 110.

Leighton, Dr. Alexander, 289.

---- Mr. Robert, 86.

Lennox, John.--_See_ Cally.

---- Robert, 213, 262.

Leys, Lady, 207.

Lindsay, James, 234.

---- Lord, 231.

Livingston, Mr. John, 90, 343.

---- Mr. William, 142.

Lochinvar, 47, 109.

Lorn, Lord, 59, 60, 61, 204;
referred to, 222.

Lothian, Earl of, 83.

Loudian, Mr., 86, 174.

Loudon, Lord (John Campbell), 116, 258, 281.

Maitland, Lord John, 307.

Malignants, 329, 330, 331, 333, 346, 356, 362.

Mar, Lady, 61, 69, 140.

Marischall, Lady (Margaret Erskine), 207.

Martin, Mr. James, 206.

Maxwell, Bishop of Ross, 6.

M'Adam, James, 141.

---- Sibylla (his sister), 193, 141.

M'Cleland, Mr., 63, 339.

M'Culloch, Jonet, 101, 252.

---- Thomas, 283.

M'Kail, Mr. Hugh, of Irvine, 71, 118, 216, 229.

M'Math, Agnes, 300.

---- Jean, 326.

M'Millan, Jean, 132.

M'Naught, Grizzel, 1, 32, 88.

---- Jane, 49.

---- Marion, 1, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 26, 29,
32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 41 (postscript), 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,
49 (with postscript), 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 60, 80,
126, 177, 185, 221, 243, 244, 263, 279.

M'Ward, Mr., 179, 337.

Mein, Barbara, 314.

---- Mr. John, senior, 151.

---- Mr. John, junior, 81, 240.

---- Mrs., 312.

Melville, Eliz.--_See_ Lady Culross.

---- of Hallhill, 224.

Melvin, Mr. Ephraim, 91.

Minister in Glasgow, 337.

---- to a Brother, 359.

M. O., 324.

Moncrieff, Mr. Alex., of Scoonie, 357.

---- Lady Ann, of Fingask, 295.

---- Laird of, 171.

Montgomery, Sir Henry, 303.

More, Dr., 311.

Mowat, Mr. Matthew, 120, 167, 239, 301.

Muirfad, 59, 109 (notice).

Mure.--_See_ Lady Ralston.

----.--_See_ Rowallan, 242.

---- Ninian, 164.

Murray, Christian, 262.

---- James, 274.

---- James, wife of, 304.

Murray, John, 356, 365.

---- Margaret, 326.

---- Margaret (Mrs. Gillespie), 326.

G. M., 92.

M. M., 167.

Nairn, Mr. George, 357.

Nevay, Mr. John, 179, 209.

Newcastle, 311.

New England, 12, 75, 151, 153, 161.

Newmills, 179.

Nicholas, Henry, 310.

Nisbet, 344; and, Life, p. 2.

Ochiltree, 112 (notice).

Ormiston, 337.

Osburne, Provost of Ayr, 149.

Oxford, 174.

Oxnam.--_See_ Scott.

N. O., 322.

Parishioners of Anwoth, 225.

Perkins, Dr. William, 159.

Person unknown, anent public worship, 290.

Persons unknown, 308.

Perth Assembly, 244.

Pitsligo, Lady (Marischall), 206, 243, 259.

Pont, Mrs., 292.

Porterfield of Duchal, 286.

Prelacy, 363, 364, etc.

Protesters, 334, 339, 344, 349, 356.

Psalms, King James', 15.

Puritans, 11, 59, 202, 262.

J. P., 49.

Q., 64, 65, 116.

Queensberry, 205.

Rait, Mr., 343, 355.

Ralston, Lady (Mure), 336.

Ramsay, Mr. Thomas, 357.

Reid, Margaret, 248.

Remonstrance, Western, 328, 351, 356, 359.

Resolutioners, 330, 331, 336, 339.

Ridge, Mr. John, 90.

Rigg, William, of Athernie, 114, 256, 273;
and notice, 226.

Robertland, Lady, 282.

Roberton, Gordon of, 72.

Robinson, Mr. John, 309.

Rodger, Mr. William, 88.

Rogers, Dr. Daniel, 159.

Ross, Bishop of, 6.

Row, Rev. John, of Perth, 183.

---- John, of Carnock, 219.

R. J. Rowallan, the Lady, 242.

Rusco, 5 (note), 147, 207, 345.

A. R., 185, 15.

H. R., 185, 15.

Rutherford's Brother George, 34, 73, 75,67, 98, 105, 107, 110,
112, 116, 136, 137, 151, 157, 158, 159, 205, 245, 267,
294, 340.

---- Brother James, 334 (note).

---- Children, 310.

---- Mother, 49.

---- Wife, 8, 11.

Schoneir, James (_see_ Lady Kaskeberry), 108.

Scott, Rev. John, of Oxnam, 349, 350, 352, 357.

Sectaries, 329, 331, 333.

Seekers, 308.

Semple, Mr. John, of Carsphairn, 357.

Senwick, 127.

Separatists, 309.

Service Book, 151, 161, 224, 262.

Sharp, Mr. James, 48, 343.

Sibbald, Dr. James. Life, xviii.

Simpson, Mr. James, 346.

Spain, 309.

Spottiswoode, Archbishop, 11, 86.

St. Andrews, 343, etc.

---- Bishop of, 48, 86.

Stewart, Mr. Henry (Dublin), 291.

---- Sir James, Provost of Edinburgh, 325.

Stirling, Mr. John, 91, 92, 357.

---- Peter, 296.

Strafford, Earl of (Wentworth), 288.

Stuart, John, of Ayr, 161, 162, 163, 189.

---- Mrs., 215.

---- Robert, 186.

Sydserff, 52, 67, 86, 160.

Taylor, Mrs., 310.

Trail, R., 179, 357.

A. T., 102, 284.

Utrecht, 334 (note).

Uxbridge Treaty, 308.

Vivet, Christopher, 309.

Watson, Mr., 214.

Weir, Mr., 214.

Welsh, John, 12.

Westminster Assembly, 306, 308, 309.

Whitepark, Gordon of, 143.

Whiteside, Bell of, 218.

Wigtown, 65, 67, 117, 191, 276.

Wilson, Mr. James, 293.

Wylie, Mr. Thomas, 306, 340, 355.

C. Y., 92.

INDEX OF SPECIAL SUBJECTS.

(_The Reference is to the Number of the Letter._)

Adversity, lessons of, 167.

Affliction, 28, 29, 35, 37, 42, 76, 92, 94, 102, 112, 122, 167,
171, 186, 211, 223, 248, 265, 273, 282, 289, 298, 302,
312, 313, 315, 317, 323.

Assurance, 106, 134, 190, 196, 286.

---- exhortation as to, 78, 91, 130.

Atheism in the heart, 233, 234, 305.

Backsliding, 225, 227, 234, 286.

Believers, 56, 85, 201, 229, 291.

Bereavements, 35, 37, 105.--_See_ Afflictions.

Bible, 10.

Blessings and Christ, difference between, 335.

Cares, 252.--_See_ Trials.

Catechism, 166, 260.

Catechising, 228.

Children of the godly, 1, 24, 34, 46, 82, 109, 111, 287.

Children of the godly, loss of, 28, 59, 238, 287, 300, 326.

Christ, in Himself, 7, 13, 19, 20, 69, 72, 82, 88, 94, 101, 105,
111, 112, 127, 140, 168, 169, 175, 186, 192, 202, 203, 209,
210, 211, 216, 226, 231, 285, 288, 291, 335.

---- Coming again, 16, 21, 26, 48, 50, 95, 130, 138, 170, 224,
231, 269, 291, 322.

---- interceding, 48.

---- in His liberality, 73, 74.

---- in His love, 20, 68, 70, 87, 112, 113, 120, 130, 143, 166,
170, 171, 187, 195, 212, 233, 254, 256, 257, 269,
270, 285, 295, 297.

---- in His sympathy, 2, 153, 177, 287, 288.

---- in His sufferings, 13, 176.

---- in our sufferings for Him, 59, 67, 95, 113, 116, 117, 148,
218, 290, 333.

---- in His ways, 71, 73, 74, 89, 99, 125, 131, 146, 189, 194,
222, 256, 326, 333, 351.

---- our conformity to Him, 11.

Christ's cause, 78, 115, 245, 332.

Christian walk, direction for, 159, 264, 269.

Church, 26, 38, 41, 45, 50, 97, 276.

---- visible, members of, 364.

Communion with Christ, 7, etc.

---- seasons, 14, 18, 20, 26, 33, 44, 45, 91, 313.

Complaints, 305.

Conflict, 6, 46, 280.

Conscience, 30, 39, 62, 66, 166.

Consolations, 54, 63, 66, 80, 266, 310, 334.

Conversion, 218.

Convictions, 218, 225.

Counsels.--_See_ Christian Walk.

Courage, 329, 331.

Crosses, 61, 62, 95, 116, 118, 119, 134, 143, 146, 148, 219,
240, 242, 246, 248, 257.

Darkness, days of, 338, 342.

Deadness, 319, 342, 344, 345, 353, 354.

Death, 3, 39, 150, 195, 238, 311, 324, 357.

Death of a Husband, 105, 222, 302, 312;
Son-in-Law, 314;
Wife, 315;
Daughter, 2, 316;
Mother, 321;
Child, 4, 28, 35, 310;
Son, 298, 310, 360;
Friend, 299, 300.

Dejections, 249.

Desertions, 6, 100, 228, 234.

Devil, 3, 32, 70, 90, 114, 115, 138, 243.

Difficulties, 205, 248, 250.

Diligence, 77, 121, 123, 141, 147, 173, 186, 198, 261, 280, 283, 289.

Doubtings, 106, 181, 203, 293.

Duty, 126.

Earnest of the Spirit, 7.

Earnestness about the soul, 123, 124, 132, 191, 200, 201, 261.

Evidences.--_See_ Marks.

Experience, 341, etc.

Faith, 7, 19, 95, 178, 182, 229, 291, 294.

Fear of man, 235, etc.

Feeling, 293, 295.

Formality, 87, 198, 218.

Free-will, 69, 120, 254, 273, etc.

Friends, 5, 30, 104.

Glory, 19, 20.

God, 342.--_See_ Christ.

Grace, 85, 106, 192, 217, 219, 233, 254, 273, 277, 323, 324.

Headship of Christ, 115, 215, 245, 278, 281, 337, 359, 363.

Heaven (_see_ Christ), 24, 246, 247, 304.

Holiness, 104, 215.

Humility, 82, 230, 285, 342.

Idolatry (in kneeling at communion), 91, 174, 179.

Idols, 102, 133, 191, 280.

Jews, restoration of, 14, 28, 50, 194, 235, 289, 295, 296.

Justification, 170.

Law, 230.

Life rather than dying, 336.

Long-suffering, 12, etc.

Lord's Supper, 269.

Marks of salvation, 172, 203, 235, 284, 293.

Martyrdom, prospect of, 362.

Ministry, his own, and others, 61, 180, 184, 188, 214, 225, 228, 286.

Non-fundamental truths, 337.

Offences, 229.

Old man, 256.

Ordinances, 11, 24.

Patience, 13, 21, 138, 196, 336.

Persecution, 291, etc.

Praise, 102, 304.

Prayer, 17, 29, 249, 263, 269, 293, 319.

---- meeting, 263, 269, 286.

---- union for, 31, 171, 365.

Prosperity, 30.

Proverbs iii., 11.

Providence, 11, 12, 89, 110, 194, 197, 234, 256, 260, 329, 331, 333.

Reproach, 26, 238.

Reprobates, 234.

Resignation, 2, 3, 90;
nine reasons for, 361.

Revival, 354.

Saints, 52.

Salvation, 79, 82, 121, 135.--_See_ Diligence.

---- nature of, 133.

Sanctification, 81, 170, 213, 215.

Satan, 32.--_See_ Devil.

Self, 12, 188, 189, 198, 284, 324.

Self-deception, 353.

Self-denial, 21, 284.

Sickness, 3, 6, 26, 125, 313, 337, 345.

Silence, 162, 163, 185, 197, 208, 294.

Sin, 84, 276.

---- against the Holy Ghost, 227.

---- uses of, 197, 294.

Sinners, awful words to, 225, 328, etc.

Sloth, 198, 200, 260, 286.

Soul's value, 79, 82.

Sovereignty of God, 35, 298, 342, 347.

Sparrows at Anwoth, 167, 168, 206.

Submission, 10, 27, 47, 157, 183, 186, 255, 298, 300, 301.

Suffering, design of, and blessings under, 113, 160, 161, 206,
265.--_See_ Trials, Afflictions.

---- words to a brother under, 329, 337, etc.

Temptation, 41, 92, 157, 196, 293.

---- public, 51.

Toleration, 349, 352.

Trials, 3, 4, 12, 22, 23, 52, 61, 63, 71, 72, 74, 75, 80, 84,
131, 133, 138, 143, 160, 161, 166, 182, 206, 211, 230,
246, 257, 265, 266, 273, 276, 289, 291, 292, 320.

Unbelief, 85, 153, 222, 239.

Union among believers, 322, 336, 337, 355.

Visible Church, 364.

Warnings, 72, 173, 225, 227.

Watchfulness, 30, 263, 353.

World, 5, 42, 99, 100, 122, 139, 190, 192, 200, 223, 224, 229,
251, 255, 268, 272, 282.

Youth, 16, 24, 41, 111, 142, 156, 164, 166, 173, 181, 186, 199,
202, 203, 232, 240, 287, 307.

Zeal, 10, 233.

GLOSSARY.

[THE REFERENCES TO SPECIAL WORDS MAY SERVE THE PURPOSE OF A VERBAL INDEX.]

(_The Figures refer to the Letters._)

_Abjects_; persons in the lowest grade of society. 291.

_Accidents_; incidental accompaniments, not essential. 293.

_Account-book_; journal of translations. 122, 124.

_Acquaint_; personally known.

_Ado_; Adjective, in the sense of _a-stir_. 97, 99, 181.
Noun; occupation,[533] trouble, concerns. 97, 99, 181, 184,
226, 250.

_Affect_; to love, have affection to. 4, 67, 174, 274, etc.--So
in Gal. iv. 17, etc.

_After-supper_; latest part of the day, between supper and
bed-time. 82.

_Agent_; advocate. 86.

_Airt_, or _airth_; quarter of the heavens, direction. 41,
167, 229, etc.

_All_; "to all power," to the utmost of my power.

_Allow_; to give an allowance. 105, 242, 287.

_Alone_; for only. 231, etc.

_Alongst_; along, side by side with. 363.

_Always_; although, notwithstanding.
(Fr., _toute-fois_.) 249, 336, 337.

_Anchor-tow_; the cable. 107.

_And_, or _an_; the conjunction "_if_." (Gr., ἐαν.)

_Anent_; concerning, over-against. 110, 234, etc.

_Annual_; yearly rent, quit-rent. 119.

_Annuity_; quit-rent. 70.

_As_; than. 306.
--It is the German "_als_," and is still a common word in the
south of Scotland.

_A-swoon_; in a swoon, or faint. 110, 186, 249.

_Athort_; athwart, across. 243.

_Aught_; to own. The Noun; possession, property. 247, 293.
So used by Gavin Douglas.

_Awsome_; fitted to overawe. 190, 219, 281, 317.

_Back._ The Verb intr. means: "to be unfortunate." 62.
The Verb trans.: "to help on." 128, 149, 200, 229, etc.
In a sermon on Zech. xi. 9, "The Godhead _backed_ him, and
convoyed him to the bar of God's justice."

_Back-bond_; a bond given after a former bond, declaring the
person who gave the first bond free. 118, 265, 291.

_Back-burden_; laid on a person's back. 288.

_Back-entry_; back-door. 277.

_Back-friend_; friend to back you or help. 199. So in a sermon
on Rev. xix.

_Back-over_; backward, quite in the other direction. 276.

_Back-set_; a thrust back. 167.

_Bailie_; magistrate. 138, etc.

_Bairns_; children. 18, 20, 106, 293, etc.

_Bairnteme_; family of children by one mother. 105, 106.
Peden speaks of the Church "with her bonny bairn-teme." In Norse,
"toma" signifies to bring forth.

_Balk_; beam for suspending scales. 225, 261.

_Band_; a bond, engagement. 18.--"_To take band with_" is to unite,
_q.d._, bind together. 46, 189, 292, 358.
"_Keep band_," the same. 42.

_Bankful_; full like a river up to the top of its bank. 169, 257.

_Bann_; to curse in the form of a minced oath. 147.

_Beguile_, Noun; deception, trick, disappointment. 176, 205, 353.

_Behind with one_; coming short of his due. 152, 157.

_Being-place_; may be a misprint for "_bigging_," _i.e._ building. 192.

_Bemist_; involved in mist, like _benight_. 118, 169, 176.
--See also "_misted_." 59, 223.

_Ben_; (_q.d._ being in), in the inner chamber, within. 20.

_Beside_; apart from, contrary to. 266, 271.

_Better cheap._--See _Cheap_.

_Bidding_; command. "_To sit a b._," to fail in prompt obedience. 43.

_Bide_; stand, wait for, endure. 23, etc.
--"_Law-biding_," ready to meet the law, instead of fleeing. 106,
107, 222, 302.
Knox's Work, vi. 593, etc.

_Bide out_; hold out. 85.

_Big_, Verb; to build.

_Binding._ The phrase, "to take binding," is the same as to "take
band." 20, 43.

_Binks_; benches. 285.

_Bird-mouthed_; mealy-mouthed. 181.
In this phrase _bird_ is the _young_, or _chicken_; hence,
the sense of softness.

_Bite upon_; leave the mark of their teeth. 84.

_Black-shame_; utter shame; so very dark. 130.
So in 272 he writes, "black nothing."

_Blae_; pale, unsatisfactory hue. 262. As in the phrase, "to
look blue."

_Blaflume_, or _blayflume_, or _bleflume_; a mere sham, air-bubble;
from _blaw_, or blow. 225, 249.
Same as "blellum," one good for nothing.

_Bleeze_; a sudden flaming up. 82.

_Blench_; a piece of white money; a mere peppercorn or nominal rent.
254. (Fr., "_blanc_.")

_Blenk_, or _blink_; a gleam, slight glance. 50, 57, etc.

_Blind_; a cheat, disappointment. 212.

_Block_; a bargain. The Verb; to bargain, plan, scheme. 20, 100,
106, 163, 200.

_Bloom_; blossom. 90, 93, 184, 185, 193.

_Bludder_, or _bluther_; to bleer, disfigure the face with weeping,
or the like. 105, 138.

_Board_; table. "Boardhead," head of the dinner-table. 30, 104,
107, 177, 249.
_Over the board_, 190.
The seller, when he handed the goods to the buyer, "over the
board," drank good luck to him. And so this came to be a
phrase for _formally giving up_ or renouncing.

_Bode_; to offer with view to a bargain. 177, 186.
It is allied in sense to "_bait_." Sibbs uses "_bawd_" (on
2 Cor. i. 3).

_Boist_, or _bost_, and sometimes written _boasts_; to threaten
with a blow. 101, 211, 226, 291.
It is connected with "boisterous."

_Borne in_; forcibly brought into the mind. 249.

_Borrow and lend_; to have dealings with. 98, 109.

_Borrows_; security in law, an Anglo-Saxon word.
"_To die in borrows_," to fail in security.--See _Burrows_.

_Botch-house_; house spoilt and disfigured. 237.

_Bouk_; from "_bulk_;" the corpse of man or beast. 141.

_Bound-road_; boundary-line. 273, 286.

_Brae_; declivity, slope of a hill. 69 141, etc.
Above ordinary bounds.--"From bank to brae." 147, etc.

_Braird_; the sprouting up blade of young wheat, or the like. 259.

_Brangle_; to shake into disorder, shake to and fro. 41, 196.

_Brash_; a passing fit of sickness. 186.

_Broadside_; openly, frankly. 81.
--_Lay on the broadside_; lay flat. 24.

_Brod_; same as _board_. 328, etc.

_Brook_, or _bruke_; enjoy, possess. 140, 115, 249.

_Browden_; eagerly desirous of, foolishly attached to. 77.

_Browst_; a brewing, or what one brews for himself. 188. An
ill-managed matter is "an ill-browst."

_Bud_; to bribe, try to win over by a gift. 63, 88, 277.

_Bulks._--See _Bouk_.

_Burrows_, or _borrows_; (Anglo-Saxon) a pledge or security.
_Law-burrows_; security given not to injure the person or
property of one. 61, 163, 184, 222.

_Bushy-biel_ (see _Life_). In Scotch, _bield_ is a _shelter_.
The name of Rutherford's house is said by some to have been
"_Bush o' Biel'_," the bush of shelter.
In old Scott. Prov., we find, "Every man bows to the _bush_
he gets _bield_ frae."
Yet it is more probable that the name is corrupted from _Bosco
Beoll_, or _Boscobel_, "the fair wood," like the celebrated
spot in Shropshire where Charles I. hid in the oak.

_Busk_; adorn, deck. 22, 42, 133, 143.

_But_; only, only this and no more. 102, 188.

_Buy a plea_; get up a charge, when properly there is no room for
it. 74, 75, 161, 171, 284.

"_Buy up_;" to bribe; or so to buy up as to set another aside.
261, 265.

_By_, or _bye_; aside from, past, as in Acts xx. 16, "sail by."
23, 105, 148, 160, 175.
Also: Without, 96; beside, 359.--"Lock-by," mislock, 218.

_By-board_; side-table where the children sat. 77, 111, 197.

_By-errand_; message done at leisure time, as being of little
importance. 191, 199.

_By-going_; passing by. 122.

_By-gone_; passed away. 71, etc.

_By-gones_; things forgotten. 62, 72.

_By-good_, or _bye-good_; an object in addition to some other
good. 195.

_By-hand_; aside. 72, 276.

_By-look_, side-look. 249.

_By-past_; time that has elapsed, or recently, as a thing done. 190.

_By-purse_; a side purse, away from the other. 284.

_By-work_; work done at leisure time only. 191.

_Canny_; prudent, cautious and skilful. Adv., _cannily_. 69.

_Card_; chart or map. 69, 232.

_Cast_; participle, _casten_: throw or fling. 324.
--_Cast the balance_; turn the scale. 153.
--"_To cast at_;" be sulky, quarrel with. 4, 23.
--"_To cast up_;" to upbraid.
--"_To cast out with_;" quarrel. 224, 254.
--"_Cast a knot_;" tie so as not to slip. 122.

_Cast_, a Noun; lot, fate. "_Common cast_;" a providence occurs
often in Brown of Wamphray. 185, 265.

_Casualty_; emoluments beyond the stated yearly dues paid to
the superior. 240, 253.

_Cauldrife_; susceptible of cold; lukewarm. 198.

_Caums_; a mould. 282.
--_Moulds_ being often made of pipe-clay, it became customary
to call pipe-clay "caum-stone."
Baillie in his "Letters" spells it "caulms."
In Gaelic, _cuma_ means a _pattern_, or shape.

_Causey_ (Fr., _chausée_); the public street. "To keep the crown
of the causey" is to make bold appearance in the public
street in open day. 52, 59, 69, 181.
The streets in those days were raised in the middle, and had
gullies on either side. The French had the phrase, "Tenir
le haut du pavé." See "Notes and Queries," March 29, 1873.

_Caution_; security, surety. 2, 19, etc.
--Adj., _Cautionary_. 187. And as Noun, suretyship. 114.

_Challenge_; charge, upbraiding, accusation. 2, 10, etc.

_Cheap_ is connected with "chapman;" from the old English "_chap_,"
a bargain. The phrase "Better cheap." 216, 293.
--And so "_Good cheap_," properly "_a good bargain_."

_Chirurgeon_; surgeon. 293, 295. Greek and Latin word.

_Clap_; something done unexpectedly. "_In a clap_;" like thunder
suddenly heard. 264.

_Clay_; earth, earthenware. 291, etc.
--"Clay-banks," 300. So "Clay-heavens," 294;
"_clay-pawns_," 300, bodies of dust.

_Cleck_; to hatch a brood, swarm. 281.

_Clipped_; coin not of full weight. 81.

_Clog_; to adhere; form an encumbrance. 249.
--Used in old English.

_Close_, a Noun; the lane or porch leading into the house. 157.

_Close_, Adv.; "_close off_," completely. 50, 82 (like the phrase
close-shaven), 88.

_Closet-ward_; guard-room. 254.

_Coast_; to sail near land, sail from one port to another. 301.

_Coastful_; full to the utmost shore. 201.

_Cog_; to fix the teeth of a wheel, and so stop its motion; put on
a drag. 51, 194, 229.

_Coldlike_; like a fire going out; hope abating. 179.

_Coldrife_, 198.
--See _Cauldrife_. "How coldrife and indifferent are ye!" (Sermon
on Isa. xlix. 1-4). Chilly, heartless.

_Common_; alluding to persons sharing at a _common_ table in
College. As this was a privilege enjoyed by special favour,
"_To be in one's common_" is to be indebted to, under
obligation to. 42, 52, 157, 252, etc.
--"_To quit commons_" (214); to be freed from obligation by
requiting the person.
In 275 and 285, "_It is ill my common_" seems to mean, It
ill becomes me, having no right.

_Communion_; the dispensing of the Lord's Supper. 14, 20, 25, etc.

_Companionry_; companionship. 147, 280.
--The termination "ry" marks plurality in old English.

_Compear_; appear judicially, at the bar. 3, etc.

_Compearance_; the act of appearing in court in obedience to a
citation.

_Compose_; compromise. 357.
--_Composition_, in same sense.

_Comprize_; to arrest by a writ; attach by a legal process.
130, 160, 171.
Seize for debt. 184, 206, etc.

_Concional._ 179.--See _note_.

_Concredit_; entrust. 260. Used often by Dickson on Job.

_Conquest_; written also _conquess_; acquisition, made not by
inheritance but by purchase and exertion. 2, 54, 79, 182,
190, 191.
--"The young heir knows not how hard the conquest was to his
poor father" (Sermon at Anwoth on Zech. xi. 9).

_Conscionable_; according to conscience, reasonable, just. 365.

_Considerable_; worthy of consideration or regard. 321, 331.

_Construct_; for construe. 361, etc.

_Contestation_; strife. 189.

_Contrair_; adversary, contrary to. 6.

_Convoy_; to accompany a friend on the way. 210, 230, 231.

_Couchers_; cowards; or rather lazy fellows. Fr., _coucher_, to
lie down. 251.

_Count_; to lay the count. 289. To settle, balance.

_Country_, in opposition to city; common, in contrast to fine.
153, 353.

_Coup_; to upset, overturn. 120.

_Court._ "_No great court_;" no influence. 78, 141, 148, 151,
158, 183, etc.
--"_To be in court_," in favour. See "Sermons."

_Cow_; to cut out, eat up, carve (Fr., _couper_). 170, 178.

_Cripple_; halting. 258.

_Crook_; to walk crookedly, lamely; halt. 233, 299.

_Cry down_; depreciate, cause to lose good name. 280.
--As a Noun. 289.
--"_Cry_," proclamation, 289.

_Cuff_; a blow with the hand. 130.

_Cumber_; trouble. 196.--Adj., "cumbersome." 292.

_Daft_; foolish, crazy. 93, 285.--"A daft young heir" (Sermon
on Zech. xi. 9).

_Dainty_; that has in it something fine, 301.

_Dawted_; made a favourite, petted. 89, 98, 166.
--"_Dawted Davie_;" a petted child. 110.
--"Better be God's sons than the world's dawties" (Sermon
on Isa. xlix. 1).

_Daylight_; note in 315.

_Dead_; in the expression, "_Dead-sweer_," thoroughly lazy; as
incapable of moving as one dead. 105.

_Deaf nuts_; no kernel in them. 138.

_Dear_; where provision is sold at a high price. 84.

_Deave_, from _deaf_; to make deaf; distract. 286.

_Decore_; to adorn. 42.--(Lat., _decorus_.)

_Decourt_; to discard, send out of court. 188, 197, 284.

_Decreet_; a judicial sentence. 3, 12, 132, etc.

_Depone_; state as a witness. 180.

_Depursement_; same as disbursement. 59.
--_Q.d._, taking out of the purse, or _bourse_ (291).

_Dew_; a Verb; to moisten. 333.

_Din_; noise. 38, 59, 100, 155, 249, 282, 325.

_Ding_; knock in with violence. 248.

_Dint_; the stroke, or force. 332.
--Zachary Boyd speaks of "The dint of God's judgments."

_Dispone_; make over. 19, 261.

_Disrespective_; disrespectful. 300.
--See _Respective_.

_Ditty_, or _Dittay_; indictment, ground of accusation. 12,
44, 180, 233.

_Do._ "_To do for_;" to act for; make effort for; accomplish
a thing. 93, 116, 135, 162, 206, 228, 244.--See Ps. cix. 21.

_Dool-like_; in mourning guise. 268.
--_Dool_; grief; "Dolor." 272.

_Doomster_; pronouncer of sentence. 229.

_Dorts_; the sulks, offence taken. 23, 70, 89.

_Double_; a duplicate. 353.

_Dow_; to be able; can. 23, 260, etc.
--_Dought_ is the past tense. Hogg's "Queen's Wake" uses the
perf.: "She turned away and _dought_ luck nae mair." So