MY […] my beloved is mine and I am his: but […] •ave no joy so great as that you are mine and I […] •ou are Christs. My Relation to Christ is abbot […] life and my peace, my riches, and my righteo• […] my hope and my strength, and mine Inheritance, […] •ycing: In him will I please my self for ever, and […] will I glory. I esteem my self most happy and rich, and safe in him, though of my self I am nothing. In him I may boast without Pride, and glory without vanity. Here is no danger of being over much pleased; neither can the Christian exceed his bounds in overvaluing his own riches, and happiness in Christ. I am greatly pleased with the Lot that is fallen to me: the Lord hath dealt bountifully with me, and none shall stop this my confidence of boasting in Christ. But as my lot in him is above all, so I will assure you, it is no small content to me, that my lot is fallen with you. And though many difficulties have fallen to my lot among you (for I have broken my health and lost my liberty once and again, for your sakes) yet none of these things move me. I wish nothing more then to spend and to be spent upon the service of your Faith. I bless the Lord for it as an invaluable mercy, that ever he called me to be an Ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ to you-wards. In this station I desire to approve my self to him, and that I am withdrawn from my Work for a season, it is but that I may return to you refreshed, and enabled for my work among you. You may not think that I have forgotten you, and consulted my own ease and pleasure: but if God prosper my intentions, I shall be found to have been daily serving you in this retirement. I will assure you, I am very ⟨p. 94⟩tender of preserving all that little strength that God doth add to me entirely for your sakes: being resolved not so much as once to broach the Vessel till I draw forth to you. I bless the Lord, I am in great tranquility here in this Town, and walk up & down the Corporation without any Questioning me. Only it hath pleased the Lord to add to my Affliction since my coming, by taking away my dear Father, the day of whose glorious Translation was the day after my arriving here. But I bless the Lord, I do believe and expect the return of the Redeemer with all his Saints, and the most glorious Resurrection of my own dead Body with all Believers:
MY 〈…〉 my beloved is mine and I am his: but 〈…〉 •ave no joy so great as that you are mine and I 〈…〉 •ou are Christs. My Relation to Christ is abo• 〈…〉 life and my peace, my riches, and my righteo• 〈…〉 my hope and my strength, and mine Inheritance, 〈…〉 •ycing: In him will I please my self for ever, and 〈…〉 will I glory. I esteem my self most happy and rich, and safe in him, though of my self I am nothing. In him I may boast without Pride, and glory without vanity. Here is no danger of being over much pleased; neither can the Christian exceed his bounds in overvaluing his own riches, and happiness in Christ. I am greatly pleased with the Lot that is fallen to me: the Lord hath dealt bountifully with me, and none shall stop this my confidence of boasting in Christ. But as my lot in him is above all, so I will assure you, it is no small content to me, that my lot is fallen with you. And though many difficulties have fallen to my lot among you (for I have broken my health and lost my liberty once and again, for your sakes) yet none of these things move me. I wish nothing more then to spend and to be spent upon the service of your Faith. I bless the Lord for it as an invalnable mercy, that ever he called me to be an Embassador of the Lord Jesus Christ to you-wards. In this station I desire to approve my self to him, and that I am withdrawn from my Work for a season, it is but that I may return to you refreshed, and inabled for my work among you. You may not think that I have forgotten you, and consulted my own ease and pleasure: but if God prosper my intentions, I shall be found to have been daily serving you in this retirement. I will assure you, I am very ⟨p. 94⟩tender of preserving all that little strength that God doth add to me entirely for your sakes: being resolved not so much as once to broach the Vessel till I draw forth to you. I bless the Lord, I am in great tranquility here in this Town, and walk up & down the Corporation without any Questioning me. Only it hath pleased the Lord to add to my Affliction since my coming, by taking away my dear Father, the day of whose glorious Translation was the day after my arriving here. But I bless the Lord, I do believe and expect the return of the Redeemer with all his Saints, and the most glorious Resurrection of my own dead Body with all Believers:
