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LETTER XXXIII. [For Perseverance.]
To my dear Friends the Servants of Christ in Luppit, Salvation.
Beloved Christians,
HAving taken up a Resolution to Write to, and to endea∣vour to confirm all the Places, where I have gone up and down Preaching the Kingdom of God, You were by no means to be omitted. You were the People that were last upon my Heart, before my taking up, and had I not been made a Prisoner, I think I had in a few hours after the time of my Apprehension been with you. Now I can no way but by Prayers, Letters, and Councels visit you; and so have sent these, to let you know, that you are upon my Heart, and that your Welfare is dear unto me. I bless the Lord to hear that his Work doth not cease among you. It is the Joy of our Bonds, Beloved, to hear that the Word is not bound, and that Satan hath not his design upon the People of God, who doubtless intended by these Sufferings to have struck Terrour into them, and to have made their Hands weak. Know, dear Christians, that the Bonds of the Gos∣pel are not tedious through Grace unto us, that Christ is a Master worth a suffering for, that there is really enough in Religion to desray all our Charges, and to quit all the Cost and Expence You can be at in or upon it; That you may Build upon it that you can never be losers by Jesus Christ, that Christs Prison is better than the Worlds Paradise, that the Divine Attributes are alone an All-sufficient Livelihood, that the Influences of Heaven, and Shines of Gods Counte∣nance are sufficient to lighten the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dungeon, and