Sample Of The Old Orthography.
SAMPLE OF THE OLD ORTHOGRAPHY.
(LETTER CCCLI.)
Sir I would ere now have writtin to you had I not knowin yor health weaker and weaker could scarce ha permitt you to hear. I need not speak. The way you know and have preached to others the skill off the Guyd and the glorie of the hom beyond death And qn he sayes com and sie it will be yor gain to obey and goe out and meet the brydgroom What accession is mad to the higher hous off his kingdom sould not be our loss though it be reall loss to the church of God Bot we count on way and the Lord counts anoyr way He is infallible and the onlie wyse God and needs non of us Had He needed Mosses and the prophets ther staying in the Bodie he could hav taken an oye way Who dar bid you cast your thoughts bak on wyff or children when he hath said Leav ym to me and com up hither or who shall persuad you to die or liv as iff that wer abritarie to us and not his alon who hath determined the number off yor moneths. If so it seem good to him follow your forrunner and guyd. It is an unknown 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 heaven. Grac grac be with you
St Andrews 15 jun. 1658. Yours in the Lord
S R
(From a MS. vol. belonging to Mr. Lamb, Dundee.]