“Ance again: The Kingdom oʼ Heeven is like to gear, hidlins in a field; the same, when a man has fund, he hides again, and for the joy oʼt gangs and niffersʼ aʼ that he has, and buys that field.
“Gin ony man bide‐na in me, he is cuisten oot as a fushionless branch, and dwines awa; and folk soop them thegither, and set them alowe, and they are brunt.
In journeyins aft; in perils oʼ rivers; in perils oʼ robbers; in perils frae my ain folk; in perils ʼmang fremʼd folk; in perils iʼ the citie; in perils iʼ the desert; in perils iʼ the sea; in perils ʼmang fause brethren.
And this was on accoont oʼ fause brethren, secretly brocht in; wha cam in but to spy oot oor liberty whilk we hae in Christ Jesus, that sae they soud bring us intil bondage;
“And to the messenger oʼ the Kirk in Sardis write ye: Thir things says he wiʼ the seeven Spirits oʼ God, and the seeven starns: I ken what ye div, and that ye hae the name oʼ leevin whan ye are deid.