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Posthumous pieces of the late Rev. John William de la Flechere
Posthumous pieces of the late Rev John William de la Flechere Author:John Fletcher Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: life, friends, and liberty to Him, who is worth a thoufand fuch alls, I thought, I muft wait for no other opportunity, and found another blefFng, in ufing the pr... more »efent moment. I did not forget to orer you among my friends, and I found it on my mind to pray and praile with you; and to be- feech you to fulfil my joy, Ly giving me to fe you all glorious within, and full of eager def.re to be with our everlafting friend. O Itt us tyke a thoufand times more notice of him, till the thought of him engrofies all other thoughts, the deftre of him all other defires! Nothing can reconcile me to let my friends go, but the fulleft evidence that they are going to Je- fus. If you go before me, let me not want that comfort. Let me never fee you, but full of an earnef t defre to do and fiiffer the will of our Cod. 1 wanted to fee heavenly joy and glory beaming from your eyes laft night, and, I feared, I faw them not. Pardon my fears, if they have no foundation. Chanty thinks no evil, hopes all, and yet is jealous with a godly jealoufy; and the wanner the charity, the ftronger and keener the jealoufy. A doubt paffed through my mind, whether you had not caught our dulnefs, whether your foul is aa near to God, as it was fome weeks ago. O! ii the multiplied mercies of God towards us do not roufe us to the third heaven of gratitude, what will? My prayer, my ardent prayer to Goci, and I imke it now afreii., with tears of def re, is that you my live as one, who does not depend on another breath. Come, rny dear friend, up with your he-irt, and fpre d the arms of your t ith. Welcome Jefus. Eelieve till you are drawn above yourfeif and earth;—till your filming foul mounts chapter{Section 4mounts, and iofes itfelf in the Sun of rignteouf neFs. I want you to be a burning, ILining light, fetting fir...« less