1658. To D. H. No 34.
SUch is our bodily condition, that we cannot make up these distances, without the intervening of Letters or Friends; but that Communion which, I trust, we have mutually (though under much dark∣ness) with the Father and the Son, by the Spirit of Grace, needs no such helps. I trust, our Prayers meet at a shorter Cut, and that we strive together in the same Faith of the Gospel. It may be you find you have much to do to keep your head above wa∣ter, I find the same; I bear about the same Body of Death, and find the same Contradiction in my corrupt and confused Nature. One Christian seems