[John Livingstone, in his letter to his parishioners at Ancrum,
says: "Oxnam is not far off from you, and I hope Mr. Scot doth
and will declare for the sworn Reformation, and testify against
present defection."]
(_PROTESTERS' TOLERATION._)
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,--I saw from C. K. a testimony of your
Presbytery against toleration, in which ye have been instrumental. The
Lord give strength to do more. I think it both rare and necessary, and
would account it a great mercy, if there were an addition of a
postscript from divers ministers and elders, out of all the shires of
Scotland. It is really the mind of all the godly and tender in this
land. It is believed by some, that the Protesting party hath quite
given over the cause. I hope it is not so; but the Lord shall be yet
victorious in His most despised ones. Our darkness is great and thick,
and there is much deadness; yet the Lord will be our light.
Thus recommending you to His grace whose ye are, I am, your own
brother, in the Lord,