Dear Friends, in this Farewell, I return you my most hearty thanks, for your extraordinary love and kindness to my self, and much more for your love to Christ; and to his Servants, who have more needed your relief. God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of Love: You have visited those that others imprisoned, and fed those that others brought into want; and when some ceased not to preach for our affliction, it quenched not your impartial Charity. It hath been an unspeakable Mercy unto me almost all my days, (when I received nothing from them) to have known so great a number as I have done of serious, humble, holy, charitable Christians: In whom I saw that Christ hath an Elect peculiar People, quite different from the brutish, proud, hypocritical, malignant, unbelieving World! O how sweet hath the familiarity of such been to me, whom the ignorant World hath hated! most of them are gone to Christ: I am following: We leave you here to longer trial: Its like you have a bitter Cup to drink: But be faithful to the death, and Christ will give you the Crown of Life. The Word of God is not bound; and the Jerusalem above is free, where is the general Assembly of the first Born, an innumerable company of Angels, the Spirits of the just made perfect, with Christ their glorified Head. The Lord guide, bless, and preserve you.
Dear Friends, in this Farewel, I return you my most hearty thanks, for your extraordinary love and kindness to my self, and much more for your love to Christ; and to his Servants, who have more needed your releif. God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of Love: You have visited those that others imprisoned, and fed those that others brought into want; and when some ceased not to preach for our affliction, it quenched not your impartial Charity. It hath been an unspeakable Mercy unto me almost all my dayes, (when I received nothing from them) to have known so great a number as I have done of serious, humble, holy, charitable Christians: In whom I saw that Christ hath an Elect peculiar People, quite different from the brutish, proud, hypocritical, malignant, unbeleiving World! O how sweet hath the familiarity of such been to me, whom the ignorant World hath hated! most of them are gone to Christ: I am following: We leave you here to longer tryal: Its like you have a bitter Cup to drink: But be faithful to the death, and Christ will give you the Crown of Life. The Word of God is not bound; and the Jerusalem above is free, where is the general Assembly of the first Born, an innumerable company of Angels, the Spirits of the just made perfect, with Christ their glorified Head. The Lord guide, bless, and preserve you.
