The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

Nor have changes proved the contrary, though fallen under variety of temptations, which by the discovery of variety of Graces have but confirmed the reality of the Grace of God in you.

For a public Spirit, that moved once in a large sphere, to be taken off from employment, and shut up within the hedge of a Country Village, is no small affliction, and I am sure none of the least you meet with; yet even here is your spirit so active for the good of others, that your absence from us is soon felt: witness the speech of one of your Neighbours, though but a plain man, Me thinks the Town is not at home, while Mr. Barrington is out of Town.

For a publick Spirit, that moved once in a large sphear, to be taken off from imployment, and shut up within the hedge of a Country Village, is no small affliction, and I am sure none of the least you meet with; yet even here is your spirit so active for the good of others, that your absence from us is soon felt: witness the speech of one of your Neighbours, though but a plain man, Me thinks the Town is not at home, while Mr. Barrington is out of Town.

As for my particular, though faithful friends are so rare, that Aristotle cried out, [Greek or Hebrew], O amici, nemo amicus: yet if I have a friend, and a friend be as he saith, [Greek or Hebrew], ^*Alter ipse, then such a one have I found in your self, having as much reason to love you as Austin his Nebridius, of ⟨image 6⟩whom (as I remember) somewhere he saith, they had one Soul in two Bodies.

As for my particular, though faithful friends are so rare, that Aristole cried out, , O amici, nemo amicus: yet if I have a friend, and a friend be as he saith, ,