1653. To D. H. No 14.
THe Conveniency of this Opportunity provoketh me to write to you by this Bearer, who has promised to see my Child. I desire that as she grows in capacity, you would be dropping in somewhat of spiritual things for her tender thoughts to feed upon. Though I cannot at this distance see your face, yet I know your Temptations in some part, and your De∣liverance; which will in due time appear. 'Tis good to be carried about, and disposed by the hand of the Lord: 'tis a blessed thing, and will one day appear so, to rejoyce in the pleasure of the Lord, let him do with a poor Creature what he will, so he make it more like himself, by unselfing you from carnal desires, and carnal discontents and fears, and transplanting you into the power and joy of believ∣ing; accounting really the offer of eternal kindness in Christ more Glory, than any earthly dying comfort: and certainly where the Comforts here can comfort but little, the Crosses here can cross but little; and shortly farewel both. Let your heart plod much on the free Covenant of Grace in Christ, by Prayer and Meditation; and let your sins come into the same Room with you, while you are on that En∣quiry. When I am at a dead lift, then sometimes the Spirit of God takes me up (as it were) into the