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and this makes me to rest in Hope, and fills me with unspeakable more Joy than the death of my self or any other Saint can with grief. And now I make it my business to be rendered serviceable to you; and do by this, return you my hearty thanks for your earnest Prayers and Intercessions to God in my behalf, for it is he that must do the Cure: I seem to my self to be retired to this place, as a Vessel rent and shattered and torn in the Service, that it come to recruit in the Harbour: And here I am as it were rigging, and repairing, and Victualling to put forth again in the Service: which I shall do with the first Wind, as soon as I am ready. What is my life unless I am serviceable? And though I must for the present forbear my wonted Labour, yet I shall not cease to exhort you, and call upon you while I am absent from you, to stand fast, and to grow up in your holy Faith.

and this makes me to rest in Hope, and fills me with unspeakle more Joy than the death of my self or any other Saint can with grief. And now I make it my business to be rendred serviceable to you; and do by this, return you my hearty thanks for your earnest Prayers and Intercessions to God in my behalf, for it is he that must do the Cure: I seem to my self to be retired to this place, as a Vessel rent and shatter'd and torn in the Service, that it come to recruit in the Harbour: And here I am as it were rigging, and repairing, and Victualling to put sorth again in the Service: which I shall do with the first Wind, as soon as I am ready. What is my life u•less I am serviceable? And though I must for the present forbear my wonted Labour, yet I shall not cease to exhort you, and call upon you while I am absent from you, to stand sast, and to grow up in your holy Faith.

Be warned, my dearly Beloved, that you fall not upon those dangerous Rocks upon which so many Professors have been split.