Series 3 > Early letters of Robert Wodrow, 1698-1709

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WODROW CORRESPONDENCE
I veryly belive will please as weel. I hope you will
peruse it as you can conveniently, and return to me as
soon as may be, for I am reading it nou and then to Mr
Jamison. Pray send me your reflections on it at lenth.
I have nothing to quarrell with in these on Ludulfus
(quhich you too modestly are pleased to terme insipide)
but your shortness. I knou your throng of more weighty
affairs will not permitt me to be soe happy as to hear at
that lenth I would desire at one time, yet hope I may be
favoured with your thoughts at lenth at different times,
as your laizour may allou, to yours intirely,
Feb. 22, 1701. R. Wodrow.
LXXVI. For Mr Arch. Foyer 1
Dear Sir,
I received yours of the 6. current2 by Mr Loudon.3 I
am not a litle surprised at your desiring from me ane
accompt of the best comentator on evry book of the
Scripture. You most for this apply to these that are of
20 or 30 years longer experience then I. Besides some
comentators are best for criticisms, some best for analysis,
others for practicall notes, and some for contradictions
and difficultyes, and all on the same book. Soe much for
that line. I received yours dated this day just nou.4
I have not seen these 5 propositions and the considera¬
tions against them, of quhich I should be glad to knou the
author. If you fall on the answer with quhich you are soe
much pleased, pray comunicate it with me. As to your
query why is the Greek Church soe litle if at all minded in
the Revelation, I shall give you quhat occurs to me at
presentt upon it. I look on the Greek Church to be but a
limb and a branch of that great apostacy and backsliding
from the truth fortold in the Revelation, and it seems not
to be soe distinct from Popery but it may very weel be
1 Answered March 3, 1701. Quarto i. no.
2 Not found in Quarto Letters.
3 Perhaps John Loudon, who was a Professor at Glasgow at this time.
4 Not found in Quarto Letters.