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LETTER,
FROM
Mr. ALEXANDER PEDEN,
To the Prisoners in Dunnotar-Castle,
July 1685.
Dear Friends,
I Long to hear from you, how you spend your time; and how the grace of God grows in your hearts. I know ye, and other of the other of the Lord's people, by reason of the present trial, have got up a fashion of complaining upon Christ; but I defy you to speak an ill word of him, unless ye wrong him. Speak as you can, and spare not; only I request that your expressions of Christ be suitable to your experience of him. If ye think Christ's house be bare and ill-provided, and harder than ye looked for, assure yourselves Christ minds only to diet you, and not to hunger you: our Steward kens when to spend and when to spare. Christ knows well, whether heaping or straking agrees best with our narrow vessels for both are alike to him: Sparing will not enrich him, nor will spending impoverish him. He thinks it ill-won that is holden off his people.—
