A26687:238
Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of…
Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of godliness, both in person and families.
London : Printed for and sold by Nevil Simmons and Dorman Newman, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
LETTER XXVII. [O• the Second coming of Christ.] To the Faithful, and Beloved, the Servants of God i• Taunton, Grace and Peace.
Loving and most dearly Beloved,
Though I trust my Bonds do preach to you, yet methink that doth not suffice me, but the conscience of my duty, ⟨p. 87⟩and the workings of my heart towards you, are still calling upon me to stir you up by way of remembrance, notwithstanding you know and be established in the present Truth. And if Paul do call upon so great an Evangelist as Timothy, to Remember that Jesus was raised from the dead according to the Gospel, why should not I be often calling upon my self, and upon you, my dearly Beloved, to remember and meditate upon, and closely apply the great and weighty Truths of the Gospel, which you have already received? and in truth, I perceive in my self and you another manner of heat and warmth in the insisting upon the plainest principles of Christianity, and the setting them home upon mine own heart and yours, than in dwelling upon any more abstruse Speculations, in the clearest handling of which, the Preacher may seem to be too much like the winter nights, very bright, but very cold.
THough I trust my Bonds do preach to you, yet methink that doth not suffice me, but the conscience of my duty, ⟨p. 87⟩and the workings of my heart towards you, are still calling upon me to stir you up by way of remembrance, notwithstanding you know and be established in the present Truth. And if Paul do call upon so great an Evangelist as Timothy, to Remember that Jesus was raised from the dead according to the Gospel, why should not I be often calling upon my self, and upon you, my dearly Beloved, to remembe and meditate upon, and closely apply the great and weighty Truths of the Gospel, which you have already received? and in truth, I perceive in my self and you another manner of heat and warmth in the insisting upon the plainest principles of Christianity, and the setting them home upon mine own heart and yours, than in dwelling upon any more abstruse Speculations, in the clearest handling of which, the Preacher may seem to be too much like the winter nights, very brigh, but very cold.