not take a man to heaven. Many are beguiled with this, that they are
clear of scandalous sins. But the man that is not born again cannot
enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The righteous are scarcely saved. God save
me from a disappointment, and send me salvation. Speer at Christ the way
to heaven, for salvation is not soon found; many miss it. Say, I must be
saved, cost me what it will.' And to a nameless young man, supposed to
be one of his Anwoth parishioners, he writes, 'So my real advice is that
you acquaint yourself with prayer, and with searching the Scriptures of
God, so that He may shew you the only true way that will bring rest to
your soul. Ordinary faith and country holiness will not save you. Take
to heart in time the weight and worth of an immortal soul; think of
death, and of judgment at the back of death, that you may be saved.--Your
sometime pastor, and still friend in God, S. R.' The civility of the New
Jerusalem, he is continually reminding his genteel and correct-living
correspondents, is a very different thing from the civility of Edinburgh,
or Aberdeen, or St. Andrews. And so it is, else it would not be worth
both Christ and all Christian men both living and dying for it.

And this leads Rutherford on, in the last place, to say what Earlston,
and Cardoness, and Lord Boyd, while yet in their unconversion and their
early conversion, would not understand. For, writing to Robert Stuart,
the son of the Provost of Ayr, Rutherford says to him, 'Labour constantly
for a sound and lively sense of sin,' and to the Laird of Cally, 'Take
pains with your salvation, for without much wrestling and sweating it is
not to be won.' A sound and lively sense of sin. As we read these sound
and lively letters, we come to see and understand something of what their
writer means by that. He means that Stuart and Cally, Cardoness and
Earlston, young laymen as they were, were to labour in sin and in their
own hearts till they came to see something of the ungodliness of sin,
something of its fiendishness, its malignity, its loathesomeness, its