Divine contemplations, and spiritual breathings of Mr. Henry Dorney

1675. To E. D. N^o 121.

I Have not received any Letter from you for di∣vers Weeks, which is not a little afflictive. You are upon our hearts, and we cease not the particular mention of you in our Prayers. Sometimes I fear your Body lies under such extremity that you cannot write; and sometimes I am willing to relieve my thoughts by supposing, if it were so, I might at least, have a Letter from S. H. But though I know not your present Case, yet I know my God and your God has you under his own Love and Care: His great design for his own Glory, and your and my Good, is to instruct us, and lead us into the Life of Resignation, and Dependance singly and fully upon himself: saving Light, Faith, and Truth is the very Lesson he is calling upon me, and drawing me to own; and Oh for some good Proficiency in this Learning: nothing so sweet, nothing so secure, and nothing so compleatly advantagious. I left the La∣dy J. this Afternoon, very near, in appearance, to a Dissolution, and A. P. breathing, and waiting for her Change. Happy Souls, who chuse that part that shall never be taken away, but abide through Death, un∣to Life in Perfection, &c. I doubt not where you are, but you will have the good Presence of God,

that is both a Sun and a Shield; and withal, he will with-hold no good thing from you, seeing he has gi∣ven you to his Son, and his Son to you, who will cause you to have an upright scope towards the Law of that blessed Relation; which is the Condition of that Promise. To the Shadow of whose Wing I commend both you and my Sister, longing to hear of her Recovery, if the Lord please; but she is in a Fathers hand, and under her Fathers care and love: in Sickness and Health, living and dying, nothing can come amiss to those that love him, and sell them∣selves perfectly away to him; as I am persuaded she has done; and can rejoyce in that blessed Bargain. A Contract made by and through Christ, the faith∣ful Witness, and watchful prevalent Advocate; and however outward Dispensations and Providences do work, they will work together for good, because his Love, Mercy, and Truth endureth for ever; where the Eye of his Favour once fixeth, he never takes it off; the tokens of which Favour you have, through his free Grace, had some taste of, that there∣by you may be led, and helped to hope perfectly to the end, and humbly rejoyce in the Hope of the Glory of God, in what method soever he is pleased to act in the way of his fatherly Discipline. He is omnipotently, universally, and continually good in himself, and in the Communications of his Good∣ness to his People; waiting in him, and trusting in him. To him I commend you daily, and with him I leave you, &c.