ing, all-atoning, all-comforting Word, which was with God, and is God, and came in likeness of finful fleth to dwell among men, and to be our Emmanuel, God with us: may he by a lively faith, be formed in our hearts, and, by a warm love, lie and grow in the manger of our emptinefs, filling it always with the bread that comes down from heaven! Though abfent in body, I am with you and the flock in fpirit. You are now at the Lord's table-O! may all the dear fouls, you have just now preached to, receive Jefus Chrift in the pledge of his dying love; and go home with this lively conviction, "God has given me eternal life, and this life is in his Son. "He that hath the Son hath life: I have the "Son, I have life, even eternal life. The way, "the truth, the life, and happiness, are mine; "and now return unto thy reft, O my foul. "Lord, let thy-fervant depart in peace; for mine "eyes the eyes of my faith have feen, the hand "of my faith hath handled, the mouth of my faith hath tafted thy falvation: a falvation pre"fent, unspeakable, and eternal." 1 66 Glory be to God in heaven! Peace on earth! Love and good-will every where; but efpecially, in the fpot, where Providence has called us to cry, Behold! what manner of love the Father has teftified to us, in Jefus, that, we children of wrath, fhould be made children of God, by that only begotten Son of the Moft High, who was born for our regeneration, crucified for our atonement, raised for our juftification, and now triumphs in heaven for our fanctification, for our full redemption, and for our eternal glorification. To him be glory for ever and ever; and may all, who who fear and love him about you, fay for ever, Amen! Hallelujah! Out of the fulness of my heart I invite them to do fo; but how fhallow is my fulness to his! What a drop to an ocean without bottom or fhore! Let us, then, receive continually from Him, who is the overflowing, and ever present fource of pardoning, fanctifying, and exhilarating grace; and from the foot of the Wrekin, where you are, to the fout of the Alps where I am, let us echo back to each other, the joyful, thankful cry of the primitive Chriftians, (which was the text here this morning) Out of his fulness we have all received grace for grace. I long to hear from you and the flock. How do you go on? Anfwer this and my laft together; and let me know, that you caft joyfully all your burdens on the Lord. Mr. Ireland fends me word, Mr. Romaine told him, you were not very well. Take care of yourself. Lay nothing to heart. Should your breaft be weak, preach but once on Sunday; for you know the evening fermon is not a part of our flated duty. I fay this, that you may not over do, and lie by, as I do. God direct, fuftain, and comfort you in all things! Our Lord Lieutenant, being stirred up by fome of the clergy, and believing firmly that I am banished from England, has taken the alarm ftill more, and forbidden the minifters to let me exhort in their houses; threatening them with the power of the fenate, if they did. They all yielded, but are now afhamed of it. A young clergyman, a true Timothy, has opened me his houle, where I exhort twice a week; E 2 and the other other clergymen, encouraged by his boldness, come to our meetings. Give my kind paftoral love to all my flock in general, and to all who fear God, and love Jefus, and the brethren, in particular. May all fee, and fee more abundantly, the falvation of God. May national diftress be fanctified unto them; and may they all be loyal fubjects of the King of kings, and of his anointed, our King. May the approaching new year be to them a year of peace and goipel grace. Remember me kindly to all our neighbours, whom I mentioned by name in my preceding letters. I hope Molly takes good care of you. God blefs her! That you and the flock may farewell in Jefus is the hearty prayer of yours, I. F. The Rev. Mr. Greaves. Nyon, March 7th, 1780. My dear Brother, I Long to hear from you. grow in the love of Chrift, and of the fouls bought with his blood, and committed to your care. May you have the comfort of bringing them all into the paftures of the gofpel, and feeing them thrive under your paftoral care. I re commend to your care the most helpless of the flock, I mean the children and the fick. They moft want your help; and they are the moft likely to benefit by it; for affliction foftens the heart, and children are not yet quite hardened through the deceitfulness of fin. I beg you will not fail, when you have opportunity, to recommend to our flock, to honour the King, to ftudy to be quiet, and to hold up, as much as lies in us, the hands of the government by which we are protected. Remember me kindly to Mr. Gilpin, and to all our parifhioners. God give you peace by all means, as, in his mercy, he does to your affectionate friend and fellow-labourer, I. F. Mr. William Wafe. Nyon, March 7th, 1780. My dear Brother, I Am forry the building has come to fo much more than I intended; but, as the mifchief is done, it is a matter to exercise patience, refignation, and felf-~ denial; and it will be a caution in future. I am going to fell part of my little eftate here to difcharge the debt. I had laid by 50l. to print a small work, which I wanted to diftribute here; but, as I must be juft, before I prefume to offer that mite to the God of truth, I lay by the defign, and thall fend that fum to Mr. York. Money is. fo fcarce here, at this time, that I fhall fell at a very great lofs; but neceffity and juftice are two great laws, which must be obeyed. As I defign,. on my return to England, to pinch until I have got rid of this debt, I may go and live in one of cottages belonging to the vicar, if we could. let the vicarage for a few pounds; and in that cafe, I dare fay, Mr. Greaves would be fo good as to take the other little house. the My dear friend, let us die to fin, hold faft Jefus, E 3 Jefus, the way, the truth, and the life, walk by faith in him, and not by the fight and paffions of the old Adam. I hope the fun of affliction, which burns poor England and us, will ripen us all for glory. Give my beft love to all our friends in Chrift, and tell them, that the hope of feeing them does me good, and that I truft, they will not turn it into bitternefs; which would be the cafe, if I fhould find them out of the narrow way, and out of the kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Lord. Salute dear John York; hold up his hands for me, and bid him ftand faft in the Lord; leaning upon the crofs of Him, who bruifed the ferpent's head, and overcame death, hell, and the grave, by pulling out fin, the fting of death. Farewell in Jefus Chrift. I. F. The Rev. Mr. Greaves. Nyon, Sep. 15th, 1780. My dear Fellow-labourer, I Had fixed the time of my departure for this month; But now two hinderances ftand in my way. When I came to collect the parts of my manufcript, I found the moft confiderable part wanting; and, after a thousand fearches, I was oblig ed to write it over again. This accident obliged me to put off my journey; and now the change of weather has brought back fome fymptoms of my diforder. I fpeak, or rather, whisper with difficulty; but I hope the quantity of grapes I begin to eat will have as good an effect upon me, |