380 MEMOIRS OF PERIODXI. of the Latin effay intolerable in the Hebrew part of it, that of the effay on the text hopeful ; and Pent my remarks on both. Withal I wrote a long letter to Mr G. upon the whole affair, as it feemed to me to require. The MS. on the covenant of grace I could not find ; it being at Edinburgh when called for, and revifed by none. But upon that occafion I called for it, and put it in the hands of my two friends, Meff. Wilfon and Davidfon, to be by them revifed. About or a little after this time, I had a letter from Mr G. dated London, June 8. before I wrote my forefaid to him : and therewith a letter to him fromDr Waterland, and on his hay- ing read the fpecimen of the effay on the accentuation : the former'. bearing an account of Sir Richard Ellys' being turned from Arminianifm ; his making Sir John Philips purchafe the Fourfold State ; and that his letter to Mr Loftus minifter of the Engli(h church at Rotterdam, and Mr Gowin at Leyden, in- doting the title-page, index, and fpecimen, of the effay on the accentuation, to be (hewn to the learned there, was then inMr G.'s hands, to be fent over by next poft, with a copy of the Fourfold State; that he (Sir Richard) fends them : that Mr Ziegenhagen was by the (then) to morrow's poft to fend the title, Syllabus, or Index, and fpecimen forefaid, to his friend at Bremen ; and by the next poft to fend them to Mr Franck at Hall : and that Mr G. gives copies.of the Fourfold State, to be fent along with them : and that he hopes to get a fpecimen fent to Carpzovius at Leipfic; and thinks I fhould write to. Sir Richard Ellys. On Thurfday, July, 30. having been abroad force four miles or more, and coming home at night, I found there had been an exprefs for me to go toDaigleith, to vifit a dying woman, viz. Jane Hope above mentioned, p. 28S. ; but night coming on, I found I could not go, dell red of the Lord the woman's pre- fervation in life ; and was eafy, finding myfelf unable for that work. The Lord heard me ; and going thither on the morrow, I few her, was helped to fpeak to her, and was much fatisfied in the divine couduét. This was the firft call of that nature I re- membered myfelf ever to have fat, by day or by night : and I thought, that the Lord was, by that occurrence, training me to accommodate myfelf tomy lowcircumftances of body. The feid Jane recovered ; Ifabel Biggar's doubtful and dan- gerous cafe aforefaid cleared, and went off ; and Janet Scot aforefaid recovered. Whereupon I was much comforted in the Lord's dealing with me, as to the cafes of thefe three perfons ; reckoning myfelf in his debt for the life and welfare of each of them. Aug. 3. No returnbeing ever made by Mr J. M. minifter of E r, to my letter mentioned p. 409, the breach ftill '* A cópy of this letter is to be found in the Appendis to this work.
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