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Having taken up a Resolution to Write to, and to endeavour to confirm all the Places, where I have gone up and down Preaching the Kingdom of God, You were by no means to be omitted. You were the People that were last upon-my heart, before my taking up, and had I not been made a Prisoner, I think I had in a few hours after the time of my Apprehension been with you. Now I can no way but by Prayers, Letters, and Counsels visit you; and so have sent these, to let you know, that you are upon my Heart, and that your Welfare is dear unto me. I bless the Lord to hear that his Work doth not cease among you. It is the Joy of our Bonds, Beloved, to hear that the Word is not bound, and that Satan hath not his design upon the People of God, who doubtless intended by these Sufferings to have struck Terror into them, and to have made their Hands weak. Know, dear Christians, that the Bonds of the Gospel are not tedious through Grace unto us, that Christ is a Master worth a suffering for, that there is really enough in Religion to defray all our Charges, to quit all the Cost and Expense you can be at in or upon it; That you may Build upon it that you can never be losers by Jesus Christ, that Christs Prison is better than the Worlds Paradise, that the Divine Attributes are alone an All-sufficient Livelihood, that the Influences of Heaven, and shines of Gods Countenance are sufficient to lighten the darksomest Dungeon, and to perfume and sweeten the noisomest Prison to a poor Believer; that if you can bring Faith and Patience, and the Assurance of the Divine Favour with you to a Prison, you will live comfortably in spite of Earth & Hell. These are Truths that the Prisoners of Christ can in a measure Seal unto; and ⟨p. 115⟩I would have you to be more soundly assured of, and established in. Brethren we are of the same mind in a Prison, that we were as in the Pulpit; that there is no life to a life of Holiness; that Christ, and his Yoke, and his Cross, are worthy of all acceptation; that it is the best, and wisest, and safest and gainfullest course in the World to stick close to Christ and his Ways, and to adhere to them in all hazards. Come on, Beloved Christians, come on, stack not your pace, but give diligence to the full assurance of Hope unto the end, and be ye followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises.

HAving taken up a Resolution to Write to, and to endeavour to confirm all the Places, where I have gone up and down Preaching the Kingdom of God, You were by no means to be omitted. You were the People that were last upon-my heart, before my taking up, and had I not been made a Prisoner, I think I had in a few hours after the time of my Apprehension been with you. Now I can no way but by Prayers, Letters, and Councels visit you; and so have sent these, to let you know, that you are upon my Heart, and that your Welfare is dear unto me. I bless the Lord to hear that his Work doth not cease among you. It is the Joy of our Bonds, Beloved, to hear that the Word is not bound, and that Satan hath not his design upon the People of God, who doubtless intended by these Sufferings to have struck Terrour into them, and to have made their Hands weak. Know, dear Christians, that the Bonds of the Gospel are not tedious through Grace unto us, that Christ is a Master worth a suffering for, that there is really enough in Religion to defray all our Charges, to quit all the Cost and Expence you can be at in or upon it; That you may Build upon it that you can never be losers by Jesus Christ, that Christs Prison is better than the Worlds Paradise, that the Divine Attributes are alone an All-sufficient Livelihood, that the Influences of Heaven, and shines of Gods Countenance are sufficient to lighten the darksomest Dungeon, and to perfume and sweeten the noisomest Prison to a poor Believer; that if you can bring Faith and Patience, and the Assurance of the Divine Favour with you to a Prison, you will live comfortably in spight of Earth & Hell. These are Truths that the Prisoners of Christ can in a measure Seal unto; and