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 lord your huband, and all the aints there, the meenger of peace be with you all for evermore, Amen.

This is my coppy of this prophetical letter; and it is a quetion whether the great prophecy concerning Scotland, be yet fulfilled or to receive its accomplihment; o there is no doubt, part of it is fulfilled, for of all thoe, who were fale judges in his, cruel entence, there is now no remnant nor memory, as is commonly oberved.

Another famous prophetical letter he wrote to Sir William Livingone of Kliyth, one of the lords of the college of jutice, whereof this my copy.

Right Honourable, my hearty Salutations remembered in the Lord,

OUR love and care many times have certainly comforted me. And having no other thing to requite, I hall, as I may, deire him who is able to do, and hath undertaken it, to meet you and yours with conolations in his good time.

As for the matter itelf, the bearer will hew you, that what is required is uch a thing, as in the ight of our Lord we may not do, without both the hazard of our conciences, and the liberty of Chrit's kingdom, which hould be dearer to us than any thing ele: What a lavery were it to us to bind our conciences, in the ervice of our God, in the meanet; point of our callings, to the will of man or angels? and we are fully reolved that what we did, was acceptable ervice to our God, who hath put it up as ervice done to him, and has allowed and ealed it to us by many tokens; o it that were more than high impiety, and apotacy, to tetify the ruin and undoing, of anything which our God hath ordained to bedone. We