A26687:275
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.
But though I may not murmur, methinks I may mourn a little, and sit down and wish, O if I may not have a Tongue to speak, would I had but Hands to Write, that I might from my Pen drop some heavenly Counsels to my Beloved People. Methinks my feeble Fingers do even Itch to Write unto you, but it cannot be, alas my right-hand seems to have forgot her cunning, and hath much ado with trembling to lift the Bread unto my Mouth. Do you think you should have had so little to show under my Hand, to bear Witness of my Care for You, and love to you if God had not shock my Pen as it were out of my Hand? Bu• all that he doth is done well, and wisely, and therefore I submit. I have purposed to borrow Hands wherewith to write unto my Beloved, rather then to be silent any longer.
But though I may not murmur, me•hinks I may mourn a little, and sit down and wish, O if I may not have a Tongue to speak, would I had but Hands to Write, that I might from my Pen drop some heavenly Councels to my Beloved People. Methinks my feeble Fingers do even Itch to Write unto you, but it cannot be, alas my right-hand seems to have forgot her cunning, and hath much ado with trembling to lift the Bread unto my Mouth. Do you think you should have had so little to shew under my Hand, to bear Witness of my Care for You, and love to you if God had not shock my Pen as it were out of my Hand? Bu• all that he doth is done well, and wisely, and therefore I submit. I have purposed to borrow Hands wherewith to write unto my Beloved, rather then to be silent any longer.
But where shall I begin, or when should I end? If I think to speak of the Mercies of God towards me, or mine enlarged affections towards you, methinks I feel already how strait this Paper is like to be, and how insignificant my Expressions will be found, and how insufficient all that I can say will prove at last to utter what I have to tell you; but shall I say nothing because I cannot utter all, this must not be neither.