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treafure. Blow hard the furnace of prayer with the bellows of faith, until you are melted into love. and the drofs of fin is purged out of every heart. There is a river that maketh glad the city of God; it is the grace that flow from his throne. Jefus is the veff 1. the heavely ark; get together into him, and fweetly fail down

into the ocean of eternity. So fhall ye be true miners, furnace-men, and bargenren. Farewell in Jefus. 1. F.

The Rev. Mr. Greaves.

Nyon, May 18th, 1779.

My dear Fellow-labourer,

MY departure being delayed fome weeks gives me much concern. although from the confidence I have in your paftoral diligence, I am eafy about the flock you feed.

There was laft week a vifitation held here, and the clergy of the town took my part againft the vifiter and others, who faid, "I was of a fec every where fpoken againft." The converfation about it held fo long and was fo trying to my grain of humility, that I went out. The matter, however, ended peaceably, by a vote that they fhould invite me to dinner. God ever fave us from jealous and perfecuting zeal!

I hope, my dear friend, you go on comfortably, doing more and more the work of a growing evangelift. Remember my love to all I mentioned in my laft, to as many of my parishioners as you meet with, and efpecially, to all our good neighbours, and to the fociety. God bless you all; and enable you to perfevere in prayer for yourfelf, for the flock (which I once more recommend to you with the lambs, the children) and for your affectionate brother, I. F.

Mr. Michael Onions.

My dear Brother,

Nyon, May, 18th, 1779.

I HAVE complied with the request of my friends, to ftay a little longer among them, as it was backed by

a fmall fociety of pious people gathered here. Three weeks ago, they got about me, and, on their knees, with many tears, befought me to stay till they were a little stronger, and able to stand alone; nor would they rife, till they had got me to comply. Happy would it be for us all, if we prayed as earneftly to him, who can give us fubftantial bleffings.

However, yesterday I fpoke with a carrier from Ge- * neva, to take me to London, who faid, he would take us at a fortnight's notice. The Lord is always ready to give our hearts a lift to the kingdom of grace, through which we muft pafs to the kingdom of glory. May we be ready alfo! The comfort of this journey is, that we all may travel together, though our bodies are asunder; for Chrift the way is every where, and faith in his word is, like his word, one and the fame, in every age and country. So is holiness the narrow way; for in all places we may love God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourself. I hope you, and all your ferious friends travel thus; and that your journey is like that of St. Paul, who travelled hard, as one running for a prize even for a crown of life.

Give my kind love to all, who travel in this manner. Invite kindly all, who have not yet fet out. Stir up earnestly those that loiter, efpecially Thomas Powis, over whom my heart yearns. Above all, give them the example of leaving the things behind, and preffing towards the mark with renewed vigour. Tell your wife, I hold her to her promife, of being the Lord's more than ever, because the time is thorter for us both. Tell your mother, I expect to find her a bruised reed in herself, and a pillar in Chrift Jefus. The Lord bless your brother and his wife, with that child born, that fon given, who fhall live to restore to us thofe, whom death carries away. I hope Patty Cartwright, with her parents, will be made ftrong in faith and patience, if not in the body. Tell Mrs. Ford, I hope fhe is bet ter in foul for her bodily weakness. If Mrs. Brooke is yet with her, I hope to find them fifters in Christ more than in Adam. I experience here, that kindred

in the former is ftronger and dearer, than in the latter. Tell Mr. Wafe, I hope he is a widower in the Lord, devoting himself to the bringing up the Lord's family and his own; both of which require clofe attendance. My love to your fellow-leaders, and by them, to the companies you meet in prayer; alfo to Mr. Hatton, and the preachers who help in the round. My love alfo waits on I. Tranter, T. Poole, and T. Banks, and all who meet in their houses. Tell them, I hope to find them growing up into Chrift in all things, particularly, in heavenly zeal, and humble love. Salute all our dear friends, and neighbours for me. Farewell in the Lord. I am yours in him, I. F.

Mr. Thomas York.
My dear Sir,

Nyon, July 18th, 1779.

PROVIDENCE is ftill gracious to me, and raifes me friends on all fides. May God reward them all, and may you have a double reward for all your kindnefs. I hope I am getting a little ftrength. The Lord has bleffed to me a fpecies of black cherry, which I have eaten in large quantities. As a proof that I am better, I can inform you, that I have preached once in this country; but as I was going to venture again, I had a return of my fpitting blood, fo that I defifted. For a fortnight paft, I have catechifed the children of the town every day; and I do not find much inconvenience from that exercife. Some of them feem to be under fweet drawings of the Father, and a few of their mothers begin to come, and defire me with tears in their eyes, to stay in this country. They urge much, my being born here, and I reply, that as I was born again in England, that is, of courfe, the country which, to me, is the dearer of the two. My friends have prevailed on me to publish a poem on the Praifes of God, which I wrote many years ago. The revifing it for the prefs is at once a bufinefs and a pleafure, which I go through on horfeback. Help me, by your pray

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ers, to ask a bleffing on this little attempt; and may the God of all grace, who deferves fo much our prailes for the unspeakable gift of his dear Son, give us fuch a fpirit of thankful praife, that we may blefs and praife him, as David did formerly.

Remember me in brotherly love to all your family, and to all friends about you, especially, to thofe who fear God and love the gofpel. Let us grow in humble love, which becomes thofe, who believe them felves redeemed by the blood of the Son of God, to be a peculiar people, zealous of kind offices, and all manner of good works.

I wish I could procure you an eftate in this fine country, as I hope to do Mr. Perronet, one of the phyficians who fhewed me fo much love, when I lay fick at Paddington. His grandfather was a Swifs, who was naturalized in the reign of Queen Anne. By calling upon fome of his relations, I have found, that he is entitled to an estate of fome thousand pounds, of which he is coming to take poffeffion. So Providence prepares for ine a friend, a kind phyfician, and a fellow-traveller, to accompany me back to England ; where one of my chief pleasures will be to embrace you, if God fpare us to meet again, and to affure you, how much I am, my dear friend, your obliged fervant, 1. F.

The Rev. Mr. Greaves.

My dear Brother,

Nyon, Dec. 25th, 1779.

GLORY be to God for his unfpeakable gift!May that Jefus, that eternal, all-creating, all-fupporting, all-atoning, all-comforting Word, which was with God, and is God, and came in likeness of finful flesh to dwell among men, and to be our Immanuel, 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 juft 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 66 -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 present, unspeakable, and "eternal."

Glory be to God in heaven! Peace on earth! Love and good-will every where ; but efpecially, in the spot, where Providence has called us to cry, Behold! what manner of love the Father has testified to us, in Jesus, that we, children of wrath, should 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 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 prefent fource of pardoning, fanctifying, and exhilarating grace; and from the foot of the Wrekin, where you are, to the foot 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

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