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

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 In this station I desire to approve my self to him, and that I am withdrawn from my Work for a season, it is but that I may return to you refreshed, and enabled for my work among you.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