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and where God gives hope there he gives an expecсtation of glory. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, faith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. xxix. II. The wife man afferts the fame-My fon, eat thou boney, because it is good; and the boneycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy foul when thou baft found it; then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off. Prov. xxiv. 13, 14. To die in peace, my dear friend, proclaims us in friendship with God: to die in hope is to die in expectation of glory: to be blessed in death, and to die in the Lord, is to have the spring of endless life in the foul when the body is dying: to die in the enjoyment of love is to die stronger than death, and in union with God. Rev. xii. 11.-1 John iv. 16. But to die in joy is above all: joy is the quintessence of love; joy is the overflowings of a loving heart; and this is the highest bliss promised to a dying faint. The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their head: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and forrow and fighing shall flee away. Ifai. xxxv. 10. The returning there meant is not coming to the militant church below; for all forrow and fighing are not banished from her in this life: but Zion above is free from both these, and will never be exercised with them again: for God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither

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received the promises, but having feen them afar off, and were perfuaded of them, and confessed they were Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13. And it is the eternal decree of God, which was made known to Adam as foon as he fell, and exercifed by Abel the protomartyr as foon as he approached to God, that the just man should live by his faith. Heb. ii. 4. Hence it is faid that by faith Abel offered to God a more excellent facrifice than Cain, by which be obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it be being dead yet speaketh. Heb. xi. 4. Gen. iv. 4. And we are told, in the New Testament, that faith, whether weak or strong, and whether exercised under the Old Testament, or under the New, comes to the same glorious end; namely, falvation from fin, from Satan, from death, from the grave, and from hell itself-Receiving the end of your faith, even the falvation of the foul. 1 Pet. i. 9, which is not a temporal, but a spiritual and an eternal one; for Ifrael shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting falvation. Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. Ifai. xlv. 17.

The way to heaven is to follow Christ in the | regeneration. Matt. xix. 28. Fear begins it, and love perfects and ends it. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Prov. i. 7. And the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, a good confcience, and faith unfeigned. 1 Tim. i. 5. Those who begin with fear will soon rife in hope; and

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and where God gives hope there he gives an expeсtation of glory. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, faith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. xxix. II. The wife man afferts the fame-My fon, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the boneycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: so shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy foul when thou baft found it; then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation Shall not be cut off. Prov. xxiv. 13, 14. To die in peace, my dear friend, proclaims us in friendship with God: to die in hope is to die in expectation of glory: to be blessed in death, and to die in the Lord, is to have the spring of endless life in the foul when the body is dying: to die in the enjoyment of love is to die stronger than death, and in union with God. Rev. xii. 11.-1 John iv. 16. But to die in joy is above all: joy is the quintessence of love; joy is the overflowings of a loving heart; and this is the highest bliss promised to a dying faint. The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with fongs, and everlasting joy upon their bead: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and forrow and fighing shall flee away. Ifai. xxxv. 10. The returning there meant is not coming to the militant church below; for all forrow and fighing are not banished from her in this life: but Zion above is free from both these, and will never be exercised with them again: for God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither

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neither forrow, nor crying, neither shall there be `any more pain, for the former things are passed away. Rev. xxi. 4.

Tender my love and duty to mother; my kind respects to your brother and sister; the fame to your aunt Hannah, and to your aunt and uncle Mathews; and accept the same yourself.

Grace, mercy and peace be with you all through our Lord Jesus Christ. So prays

Your willing servant

in the Gospel of God,

W. H. S.S.

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