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I Have received your moving melting letter, and could not look over such tender expressions of your working affections, without some commotions in my own: I may confidently say, I spent more Tears upon those lines, than ever you did Ink: your deep sense of my labours in the Ministry, I cannot but thankfully acknowledge, and take notice of: yet withal, heartily and unseingedly confessing, that all was but the duty which I did owe to your precious and immortal Souls: which God knows, are very much short of my duty. The omissions, imperfections, defects, deadness, that accompanied my duties I do own, I must and will own; and the Lord humble me for them. But all that was of God (and that was all that was good) be sure that you give to God alone. To him I humbly ascribe both the Will, and the Deed, to whom alone be Glory for ever.

I Have received your moving melting letter, and could not look over such tender expressions of your working affections, without some commotions in my own: I may confidently say, I spent more Tears upon those lines, than ever you did Ink: your deep sense of my labours in the Ministry, I cannot but thankfully acknowledge, and take notice of: yet withal, heartily and unseingedly consessing, that all was but the duty which I did owe to your precious and immortal Souls: which God knows, are very much short of my duty. The omissions, imperfections, defects, deadness, that accompanied my duties I do own, I must and will own; and the Lord humble me for them. But all that was of God (and that was all that was good) be sure that you give to God alone. To him I humbly ascribe both the Will, and the Deed, to whom alone be Glory for ever.

My dear Brethren, my business as I have often told you, is not to gain your hearts, or turn your eyes towards me, but to Jesus Christ: his Spokesman I am, will you give your hearts to him? will you give your hands, your names to him? will you subscribe to his Laws, and consent to his Offices, and be at through defiance with all his Enemies? This do, and I have my Errant. Who will follow Christs Colours? who will come under his Banner? this shall be the man that shall be my Friend; this is he that will oblige me for ever. Do these Letters come to none that are yet unsanctified? to no loose sinner? to no ignorant sinner? to no unsound professor? Oh that there were none such indeed! oh that I had left no such behind me! but would they do me a kindness as