ABERDEEN, _Jan. 24, 1637_.
[179] John Spottiswoode.
[180] James Law, Bishop of Glasgow, was the deputy of Sydserff, the Bishop of Galloway.
[181] Arguments drawn from the risk of provoking.
LXXXVII.--_To_ ELIZABETH KENNEDY.
[ELIZABETH KENNEDY was the sister of Hugh Kennedy, Provost of Ayr, and a woman as eminent for piety and prayer as her brother. Wodrow records of her that, being much afflicted with the stone, she was advised to submit to a surgical operation. Several meetings for prayer took place among the godly at Ayr in reference to her case. When the surgeon came to perform the operation, one of these meetings was going on in the house, and they continued so long in prayer as nearly to exhaust his patience; but before they had concluded, the stone dissolved, and without surgical aid she obtained immediate relief. (_Wodrow's_ "Analecta," vol. ii.)]