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 man’s life, and God’s eye is always watching over you with his providential care, and over your faculties both when you are asleep and awake. And nothing to you comes spontaneously but all is sent from God. The grass he do cause to grow for the cattle, and the herbs for the service man; and of his blessings all may be thankful. But you in Borrowdale are not in the least. You may boast and brag of your riches, but for your education, your virtue, and your knowledge of religion and its rules, when into it you are examined, you do come to it into great deficiency, and you can do nothing to it but bark as a dog, or bleat as a sheep in the valley. And as for Theology, and its rules or matters, when into it you are examined, you are either dumb, or return such answers as you may be compared to cocks and hens’, without religion altogether, and you seem to be deranged, and if you do not in time seek God, for his grace, and prayer, you cannot expect to prosper, either in this world, or that which is to come. Oh let you seek God, for his grace, and prefer his love before all otherthings. and seek for an interest in I. XT. so now my beloved brethren, in Borrowedale, you may read all this if you please, and if there is any scholars among you, take up your pens, and send to me an answer, then see to get an order to obtain eternal salvation, that your souls may be welcome to glory, and be foe ever with the Lord I. XT. your dear and only Redeemer of mankind, to whom be glory and blessing for ever and ever. Amen.