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Most endeared Friends,

MY heart is solicitous for you: your Spiritual and Eternal welfare is the matter of my desires and designs. Let not my Beloved think they were forgotten by me, because you heard not from me the last Week: sleep departed from my eyes to write to you at large; but in the morning I concluded it best, to defer the imparting of it to you for a season, that you might have it a better way. Can a woman forget her Child, that she should not have compassion on the Son of her Womb? yea, they may forget, but Christ will earnestly remember you still. Natural Parents may be so far unnatural; spiritual Parents may be so far carnal, as to forget their own Children: I would have you count nothing as certain but Christs love and care. This you may build upon: You need not fear lest time and distance should wear out the remembrance of you with him: your names are enrolled in the everlasting Decrees of Heaven, and a whole Eternity hath not been able to wear them out. Do any of you question whether you are so happy as to have your names recorded above? I shall bring it to a speedy issue: Do •ou question whether Christ hath taken your names? whether you are upon his heart? Let me ask you, Is Heaven upon your Hearts? Is the Name of Jesus deeply engraven upon ⟨p. 62⟩your Souls? Is his Image and Superscription there? If you can find that Heaven is the main of your cares, that your hearts are set upon it as your home and your Country; and that it is your great business to seek it and secure it, then never doubt, if your Hearts be chiefly upon Heaven, your Names are unquestionable written in Heaven. Again, hath Christ recorded his name in your Hearts? Is the Name of Jesus the Beloved name with you? precious above all; next to your hearts? Is there no other Name under heaven so dear and sweet to you? What room •ath Christ in you? If any thing be deeper in your hearts than he is, you are unsound. As the Father hath given him, so do your hearts give him a Name above every Name: Is Christ uppermost with you in your estimations and affection? Then rejoice and leap for joy, your Names are most precious with Christ, if his Name be above all dear to you. Once more, hath Christ drawn out his own similitude upon You! Is Christ within you? doth he dwell in your Hearts? Then be sure you have a room in his heart: The Image of Christ is in holiness. Is this that which your very hearts are set upon?