good things of the city of deftruction, and was pun. ished by a judgment, almoft as fearful as that of Ananias, Sapphira, and Judas.

My dear companions, let us be confiftent; let us feek firft the kingdom of God and his righteoufnefs, and all other things, upon your diligent, frugal, fecondary endeavours, fhall be added unto you. Let us live daily, more and more, upon the free love of our gracious Creator and Preferver, the grace and righteoufnefs of our atoning Redeemer and Mediator, nor let us ftop fhort of the powerful, joyous influence of our Comforter and Sanctifier.

Bear me on your hearts, as I do you upon mine; and meet we all in the heart of Chrift, who is the centre of our union, and our common head; humbly leaving it to him, when and where, we fhall meet again. In the mean while, I beg you will pay a due regard to the following texts, Love one another, as I have loved you. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another. Little children, love not the world; for if any man love the world, the love of the Father, and of the brethren is not in him. Be of one accord, of one mind. Let there be no divisions among you. Mind not high things, but things which make for peace and edification.

Farewell in Chrift till we meet in the fleth, around his table, or in the Spirit around his throne. My love and thanks to Mr. Murlin and Mr. Roberts. I am your afflicted, comforted brother, I. F.

The Rev. Mr. Greaves.

My dear Brother,

Nyon, July 18th, 1778.

I EXPECTED to have had an anfwer to the two laft letters I wrote you, but have been difappointed of my hope. Probably your letters have mifcarried thefe troublesome times. I truft you lay yourfelf out in length and breadth for the good of the flock committed to your care. I fhould be glad to hear, that all the flock grow in grace, and that the little flock grow in humble love.

Be pleafed to read the following note in the church "John Fletcher begs a farther intereft in the prayers "of the congregation of Madeley; and defires thofe, "who affemble to ferve God in the church, to help "him to return public thanks to Almighty God, for 86 many mercies received; especially, for being able to "do every day a little ministerial duty, which he con"fiders as an earnest of the strength he fhould be glad "to have, to come back foon, and ferve them in the "gofpel; which he designs to do, please God, in fome "months. In the mean time, he humbly befeeches "them, to ferve God as Chriftians, and to love one "another as brethren; neglecting no means of grace, "and rejoicing in all the hopes of glory."

I hope, my dear brother, that you remember my requeft to you, in my letter from Dover; and that you are glad of every poffible help to do the people good. The harveft is great, the labourers are comparatively few. Pray the Lord to fend more labourers into his harveft; and rejoice when he fends us any, who will help us to break up the fallow ground.

Be pleafed, when you have an opportunity, to read the following note to the focieties in Madeley, Daw ley, and the Banks:

My dear Brethren,

I hope you have no need of a line to affure you of the continuance of my brotherly love for you. We are all called to grow in grace, and confequently, in love, which is the greatest of all Chriftian graces. Your prayers for my foul and my body have not been without answer. Bleffed be God! Glory be to his rich mercy in Chrift, I live yet the life of faith; and as to my body, I recover fome ftrength; which rejoices me the more, as I hope a good Providence will make way for my laying it out, in inviting you to leave the things which are behind, and to prefs, with earnestness, unity, and patience, towards the mark of our heavenly calling in Chrift. God bless you all, with all the bleffings brought to the church by Chrift Jefus, and by the other Comforter! Fare ye all well in Jefus ;

and remember at the throne of grace your affectionate 'brother and fervant in Chrift, I. F.

My love to all our kind neighbours, and to the preachers, whom I beg you will thank in my name. Adieu, my dear brother. I am yours in the Lord, 1. F.

Mr. Thomas York.
My dear Brother,

Nyon, Sept. 15th, 1778.

I THANK you for your love, and generous care of my little temporal concerns. I long to know how you all do. You may fee on the enclosed how I do in body. Bleffed be the God of all confolation, though I have ftill very trying, feverish nights, and nothing but forced evacuations, I am kept in peace of mind; refigned to his will, who afflicts me for my good, and juftly fets me afide for my unprofitablenefs. Well, though I am a bruifed veffel, yet I reft on him; he does not break me, yea, he comforts me on every fide. His grace within, and his people without, turn my trying circumftances into matter of praife.

Give my love to all your dear family, and to the two or three, who may yet remember me at Shiffnal. Alfo give my love to Daniel, and defire him, when he ga thers the Eafter dues, to give my love and thanks to all my parishioners. Adieu! Yours, 1. F.

Mr. William Wase.
My dear Friend,

Nyon, Feb. 11th, 1779.

I HAVE just received yours of the 24th of Janu ary, and rejoice to hear of the welfare of your friends; but there is no bleffing here without fome alloy of grief, and fuch was to me the account of the poor ftate of dear Mrs. Wafe's health. The Lord be with her as a Comforter and Sanctifier, if he does not chufe to be with her as a phyfician, Tell her, I fhould be glad to hold up her hands in her fight of affliction; but if the poor

unprofitable, weak fervant is far off, the Mafter, who is rich in mercy, who fills the whole world with his goodnefs and patience, and who has all power given him as our brother. Son of man, in heaven and earth-this kind Mafter is near to her, and all his afflicted ones. Bid her from me, entreat her in my name, or rather, in his dear name, Jefus, Salvation, Refurrection, Life, Light, and Love, to look to him, and to make a free and conftant ufe of him in all his offices.

I recommend to her two remedies; the one is a cheerful refignation to the will of God, whereby her animal fpirits will be raised and sweetly refreshed; the other is four lumps of heavenly fugar, to be taken every half hour, day and night, when he does not fleep. I make a conftant ufe of them to my great comfort. They have quickened my foul when I was dying, and I doubt not but they will have the fame effect upon hers. Our church has already extracted that divine fugar from the fcripture, and put it into the Common Prayer-Book, as the heavenly bait, which is to draw us to the Lord's table. Though they have often paffed through my mouth, when I have called her there, they have loft nothing of their sweetnefs and force. God so loved the world, &c. If any man sin, &c. It is a faithful saying, &c. Come unto me all ye that are weary,

c. God grant her abundance of the faith, which rolls these heavenly pills in the mind, and much of that love, which fucks their fweetnefs in the heart. Tell her, they go down best, if taken in the cup of thankfgiving; into which a tear of defire, of humility, of repentance, or of joy, might be dropt occafionally.That tear is to be had, by looking fimply to him, who fells oil to the virgins, who offered a springing well to the woman of Samaria, and opened a fountain flowing with heavenly blood and water, when he hung for us upon the crofs. To him be praise and glory for ever! Amen!

Tell my little god-daughter Patty Cartwright, fhe is big enough and bad enough to take them; and that the holy child Jefus came on purpose into the world to

make them up for her. fuch a remedy fo near,

What a fhame it is, to have and not to make more use of it to fubdue our unbelief, and cure our stupid ingratitude.

Thank brother Cofterdine and his fellow labourers for their occafional help; and may he, who gives the increase, abundantly blefs it to them and to our friends. May the Lord vouchsafe to confecrate our little Zoar, by calling one finner, and establishing one faint. How abundantly fhall we be repaid for our little expence and trouble! I am, yours, &c. I. f.

Nyon, Feb. 11th, 1779. To the Brethren in and about Madeley.

My dear Companions in tribulation,

PEACE and mercy, faith, hope, and love be multiplied to you all in general, and to each of you in particular, from the Father of mercies, through the Lord Jefus Chrift, by the Spirit of grace. I thank you for your kind remembrance of me in your prayers. I am yet fpared to pray for you. O that I had more power with God! I would bring down all heaven into all your hearts. Strive together, in love, for the living faith, the glorious hope, the fanctifying, perfecting love, once delivered to the faints. Look to Jefus. Move on; run yourselves in the heavenly race, and let each fweetly draw his brother along, till the whole company ap pear before the Redeeming God in Sion, adorned as a bride for the heavenly Bridegroom.

I hope God will, in his mercy, fpare me to fee you in the flesh; and, if I cannot labour for you, I fhall gladly fuffer with you. If you will put health into my flesh, marrow in my bones, joy in my heart, and life into my whole frame, be of one heart, and of one foul. Count nothing your own, but your fin and shame; and bury that dreadful property in the grave, the bottomlefs grave of our Saviour. Let all you are, and have, be his that bought you, and his members, for his fake. Dig hard in the gospel mines for hidden