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

O Lord, I am thy Servant, truly I am thy servant, Glorify thine own Name by me, and thou shalt have my hand to it, that I will be content to be hid in obscurity, and to disappear through the overcoming lustre and brightness of thy Glory.

O Lord, I am thy Servant, truly I am thy servant, Glorifie thine own Name by me, and thou shalt have my hand to it, that I will be content to be hid in obscurity, and to disappear through the overcoming lustre and brightness of thy Glory.

Brethren, understand mine Office, I Preach not my self, but the Lord Jesus Christ, and my self your Servant for Jesus sake. Give him your hearts, and I have my Errand I am but the Friend of the Bridegroom, and my business is, but to give you to understand his love, and to gain your hearts unto him. He is an Object worthy of my Commendations, and of your affections. His Love is worth the writing of, and worth the thinking of, and worth the speaking of. O my Brethren, never forge•, I beseech you, how he loveth you. He is in Heaven, and you are on Earth; he is in Glory and you in Rags; he is in the shining Throne, a•d you in dirty flesh, and yet he loveth you. His heart is infinitely tender of you, even now while he is at the right hand of the Majesty on High. How feelingly doth he cry out at the hurt of his poor Members on Earth? Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me! Oh, of what quick sense is the sense of our dear Lord unto us! when we are touched on Earth he feels it in Heaven.

Brethren, Christ is real in all that he speaks unto you: He is not like a flourishing Lover, who fills up his Letters with Rhetoric, and hath more care of the dress of his Speech, ⟨p. 91⟩