538 TO THE CITIZENS OF LONDON. done, of serious, humble, holy, charitable Christians, in whom I saw that Christ hath an elect, peculiar people, quite dif- ferent from the brutish, proud, hypocritical, malignant, unbelieving world ! O, how sweet hath the familiarity of such been to me, whom the ignorant world hath hated! Most of them are gone to Christ; I ,am following: we leave you here to longer trial: it is like ydü have a bitter cup to drink ; but be faithful to the death, and Christ will give you the crown of life. The word of God is not bound, and the Jerusalem above is free, where is the general assembly of the first-born, an innumerable, company of angels, the spirits of the just made perfect, with Christ their glori- fied Head. The Lord guide, bless, and preserve you. [1682.]
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