(Part of SIR ROBERT HAMILTON’S Dying Testimony, Borrowstounness, September, 1701.)
“And now, my dear friends, let nothing discourage you in that way. The Lord will maintain His own cause, and make it yet to triumph. The nearer to the day, it may be the darker, but yet ‘in the evening time it shall be light’; and the farther distant ye keep from all the courses and interests of this generation, the greater will your peace and security be. Oh! labour to be in Christ, for Him, and like Him. Be much in reading of the Holy Scriptures, much in prayer and holy unity among yourselves. Be zealous and tender in keeping up your private fellowship for prayer and Christian conference, as also your public correspondence and general meetings. Go to them and come from them as those intrusted, really concerned and weighted, with Christ’s precious controverted truths in Scotland; and labour still to take Christ along with you to all your meetings, and to behave yourselves as under His holy and all-seeing eye when at them, that ye may always return with a blessing from His rich hand.
“Now, farewell, my dear Christian friends; the Lord send us a joyful meeting at His own right hand, after time; which shall be the earnest desire, while in time, of your dying friend.”