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By this time I find my self come up to the subject of my Book of the Saints Rest; wherein having said so much to Direct and Excite you, for the attainment of these Spiritual and Heavenly Delights, I will refer you to it, for your help in that work; and add no more here, but to Desire you through the course of your life to remember, That the true Love of God in Christ, and Delight in him and Thankful, Cheerful Obedience to him, is the great work of a Christian, which God is best pleased with, and which the blessed Angels and Saints shall be exercised in for ever.

By this time I find my self come up to the subject of my Book of the Saints Rest; wherein having said so much to Direct and Excite you, for the attainment of these Spiritual and Heavenly Delights, I will referr you to it, for your help in that work; and adde no more here, but to Desire you through the course of your life to remember, That the true Love of God in Christ, and Delight in him and Thankful, Chearful Obedience to him, is the great work of a Christian, which God is best pleased with, and which the blessed Angels and Saints shall be exercised in for ever.

And O thou the Blessed God of Love, the Father of Mercy, the Prince of Peace, the Spirit ⟨p. 539⟩of Consolation, compose the Disquieted spirits of thy People, and the tumultuous, disjointed state of thy Churches; and pardon our Rashness, Contentions and Blood-guiltiness, and give us not up to the state of the wicked, who are like the raging Sea, and to whom there is no Peace! Lay thy command on our winds and waves, before thy shipwrecked vessel perish: And Rebuke that evil spirit whose name is Legion, which hath possessed so great a part of thine Inheritance: Send forth the spirit of Judgement and Meekness into thy Churches▪ and save us from our Pride and Ignorance with their effects: And bring our feet into the way of Peace, which hitherto we have not known. O close all thy People speedily in loving consultations, and earnest enquiries after Peace. Let them Return from their Corruptions, Contentions and Divisions, and jointly seek thee, asking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten: Blast all opposing Policies and Powers: Say to these Dead and Dry bones, Live. And out of these Ruins do thou yet erect a City of Righteousness, where thy People may dwell together, in Peaceable habitations; and in the midst thereof, A Temple to thy Holiness: Let the materials of it be Verity and Purity: Let the Redeemer be its Foundation: Let