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Hear all parties. He that is red for windlestraws, should not sleep in lees. He that is fraid of a far should never hear thunder. He is not the fool that the fool is, but he that with the fool deals. He loves me for little that hates me for nought. He that hes twa huirds, is able to get the third. He is a fairy beggar that may not goe by ane mans door. Hall-binks are fliddery.
'A single-hearted and painful Christian, much employed in parliaments and public meetings after the year 1638. Livingstone. 'Hall-binks are slippery. Gordon to Rutherford. Robert Gordon of Knockbrex, in his religious character, was a combination of Old Honest and Mr. Fearing in the Pilgrim's Progress.
And this was why Gordon so often turned upon Rutherford when he was exalted above measure, and reminded his minister, in the old Scottish proverb, that 'Hall-binks are slippery. Seats of honour, Mr. Samuel, are unsafe seats for unsanctified sinners. Ecstasies do not last, and they leave the soul weaker and darker than they found it.
He was a blunt, plain-spoken, matter-of- fact man; he immensely loved and honoured his minister, but he could not help reminding him after one of his specially enraptured letters that 'Hall-binks are slippery seats. The golden mean lay somewhere between the hall-bink and the ash-pit; somewhere between Rutherford's ecstasy and Gordon's depression.
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