Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of…

who will be entreated by me to set upon neglected duties, or reform accustomed sins? O wherein may you rejoice me? in this, in this, my Brethren, in this you shall befriend me, if you obey the voice of God by me, if you be prevailed with to give your selves up throughly to the Lord? would you lighten my burden; would you loosen my bonds? would you make glad my heart? let me hear of your owning the ways and servants of the Lord in adversity, of your coming in, of your abiding and patient continuing in the ways of holiness. O that I could but hear that the prayerless Souls, the prayerless families among you, were now given to prayer! that the profane sinner would be awakened, and be induced by the Preaching of these Bonds, which heretofore would not be prevailed with, to leave their drunkenness their loose company, their lying and deceit, and Wantonness, by all the threatenings of God that could be pronounced against them, ⟨p. 50⟩nor all the beseechings, wooings, and entreaties that I was able to use with them! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be? how long shall the patience of God wait for you? how long shall the Lord Jesus stretch out his hands toward you? O sinners, cast your selves into his Arm? Why should you die? why will you forsake your own mercy? will you perish when mercy woos you? confess and forsake your sins, and you shall find mercy: will you part with Christ, and sell your souls to perdition for a little ease and delight to your flesh? or a little of the gain of unrighteousness? or a little Ale or vain mirth, or loose company? why these are the things that part between sinners and Christ.

who will be intreated by me to set upon neglected duties, or reform accustomed sins? O wherein may you rejoyce me? in this, in this, my Brethren, in this you shall befriend me, if you obey the voice of God by me, if you be prevailed with to give your selves up throughly to the Lord? would you lighten my burden; would you loosen my bonds? would you make glad my heart? let me hear of your owning the ways and servants of the Lord in adversity, of your coming in, of your abiding and patient continuing in the ways of holiness. O that I could but hear that the prayerless Souls, the prayerless families among you, were now given to prayer! that the profane sinner would be awakened, and be induced by the Preaching of these Bonds, which heretofore would not be prevailed with, to leave their drunkenness their loose company, their lying and deceit, and Wantonness, by all the threatnings of God that could be pronounced against them,