A26687:348
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
CHRISTIAN LETTERS, Full of SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONS, Tending To the P… › Letter 37: LETTER XXXVII.
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.
LETTER XXXVII.
Dear Cousin,
Though I have been in the valley of the shadow of death, though I have had more than one foot in the Grave, and have been in deaths often, yet the love and remembrance of you, ever liveth on my heart: I have long had neither feet to walk nor hands to write, yet I have borrowed hands as you see, rather than I would stay any longer from warning and admonishing of you. Dear Cousin, that soul of yours, that precious-immortal soul is of no light value with me! I pray hard for its Salvation: I have a Godly fear for you, lest your soul should miscarry in a crowd of worldly business, and of earthly cares Ah, my dear Niece, it comforts me that you are so settled for this world, and are in want of nothing, I bless the Lord for this, but me thinks this doth not satisfy me. Oh, that I could be sure that you were once safe settled in Christ; though you are, I trust comfortably furnished with earthly things, yet in this you are but half provided for: have you a Treasure in Heaven? have you laid hold on eternal life? have you made sure work for everlasting? have you past the straits of the New-Birth? do you bear upon you the marks of the Lord Jesus?
THough I have been in the valley of the shadow of death, though I have had more than one foot in the Grave, and have been in deaths often, yet the love and remembrance of you, ever liveth on my heart: I have long had neither feet to walk nor hands to write, yet I have borrowed hands as you see, rather than I would stay any longer from warning and admonishing of you. Dear Couzin, that soul of yours, that precious-immortal soul is of no light value with me! I pray hard for its Salvation: I have a Godly fear for you, lest your soul should miscarry in a crowd of worldly business, and of earthly cares Ah, my dear Niece, it comforts me that you are so setled for this world, and are in want of nothing, I bless the Lord for this, but me thinks this doth not satisfie me. Oh, that I could be sure that you were once safe setled in Christ; though you are, I trust comfortably furnished with earthly things, yet in this you are but half provided for: have you a Treasure in Heaven? have you laid hold on eternal life? have you made sure work for everlasting? have you past the straits of the New-Birth? do you bear upon you the marks of the Lord Jesus?