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( 16 ) and ſtrive to walk worthy of him in your Places, Calling, and Stations, and Relations, as a Husband, as a Wife, as a Maſter, as a Servant, as a Chriſtian, ſtudy to have a blameleſs Converſation as becomes the Goſpel as far as ye can, walk void of Offence towards God and Man. My dear Friends, I have ſweet Peace in my lovely Lord; he has made my Priſon become a Palace unto me, and he has made me many a Time to bleſs him for my Lot, for which my Soul ſhall praiſe him through all Eternity. Therefore my dear Friends, let none of you think it ſtrange, concerning the fiery Trial, as though ſome ſtrange Thing had happened unto me, for it is in his holy Wiſdom he has made my Lot ſweet; for he has made out his precious Promiſes unto me, one of which is of more worth then all the World, giving me the Witneſs of his Spirit, bearing Witneſs with my Spirit that I have a Right to them all.

Now farewell all Things in Time, farewell holy Scripture, farewell all Chriſtian Friends, farewell Prayer and Meditation, farewell Faith, farewell Hope. Welcome Heaven, welcome Father, Son and Holy Spirit, welcome Angels and the Souls of juſt Men made perfect, welcome Praiſes for evermore.

Sic Subſcribitur,

JOHN FINLAY.