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( 6 ) of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned O what shall I say? Let us love Christ, let us love him and exalt his grace; and they that do not, nor never will love him, let them Anathema Maranatha. Now,

Right honourable and dearly beloved in our lovely Lord, ye have expressed greatly your love to wronged Christ and his precious Cause, by your standing still to condole and commiserate the case of his mournful and distressed people in this land : Ye have evidenced heart-sympathy with us; your hands have not been bound up from helping, strengthning and encouraging us; ye have been iustrumentsinstruments [sic] to minister a refreshful cup of consolation unto us; ye have stood with us when others have left us: O stand by truth and duty; keep thereby, tho’ all men should deny the one, and forsake the other, let this be your study and our study, and so let us stand one with and for another: Let nothing damp you, nor mar your confidence; the cause is the Lords, he shall prevail, he will overturn thrones and kingdoms and get himself a name: And amongst the rest, the tribe of Levi must get a clash: But, go ye on, let it be your only work to follow the Lord fully and sincerely, and your latter end shall be peace. Thus commiting you all to the Lord, for directing and upholding grace, for his making you in your places and stations (as hitherto he hath done in a great measure) brazen-walls and iron-pillars against all error and ungodliness; and for his enabling you by his grace to endure to the end; that so, ye may everlastingly triumph with him in glory. So, hoping that I need not desire you to be mindful of a poor, wrestling, bleeding and wronged Church; and of him, whose life is wading through snares, discouragments, hazards, deaths and dangers; and who is,

Right honourable and dearly beloved in the Lord,

Your real and constant friend and servant in all Christian duties,

JAMES RENWICK. To