Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

It may be this paper present is sent on Embassy from Heaven, on purpose, to set thy house in order, to untie thy bosom knots, to bind the strong man, and cast him out of thy doors, that thy heart may be once again set at liberty, to serve the Lord thy God in thy general and particular ⟨image 3⟩Calling, whose service is thy freedom. What is here sent by this Ambassador of Christ, (who is now the voice of one crying in the wilderness) to a weary and heavy laden soul in this Island. I had rather it should appear to thy judgement in the serious reading, and to thy conscience in the •ome application thereof, than from my opinion of it: Therefore I shall only add (as the Contents of this letter) certain select Cases, proposed and resolved in the several paragraphs thereof, as they lie in order in the pages following, viz.

It may be this paper present is sent on Embassie from Heaven, on purpose, to set thy house in order, to untie thy bosome knots, to bind the strong man, and cast him out of thy doores, that thy heart may be once againe set at liberty, to serve the Lord thy God in thy generall and particular ⟨image 3⟩Calling, whose service is thy freedome. What is here sent by this Ambassador of Christ, (who is now the voice of one crying in the wildernesse) to a wearie and heavy laden soule in this Island. I had rather it should appeare to thy judgement in the serious reading, and to thy conscience in the •ome application thereof, than from my opinion of it: Therefore I shall onely adde (as the Contents of this letter) certain select Cases, proposed and resolved in the severall paragraphs thereof, as they lie in order in the pages following, viz.

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