460 MEMOIRS OF MR BOSTON. my notice on three texts, therewith tranfmitted. The firft I return ; the fecoud 1 keep, as your letter allows. I never faw that letter of yours, nor knew any thing about it, or what it in- doted, till Saturday's night lait, that my daughter carne home; the which happened by inadvertency of my fervant. But divine Providence manages inadvertencies of men to carry on his pur- pofes ; and I doubt not but there wasa becoming defign in this, though I know not what it was ; and by borne leffons I have got of that, kind, I am engaged to think it was a kind one ; and fo, taking it out of the hand of God, will not grudge it, but hope for the beft of it. I had been long waiting for a pro- vidential fignal to move anent the MSS. ; and now I have got it fair and clear by your laft, and am on the road pointed out to me, difpofed to march on, or halt, as 1 can take up my orders. I am much fatisfied that I can lather from yours, that your 'affairs is in a hopeful fituation; and I hope, that by the hand into which it is committed, it will be carried on. Only believe that God will dò the belt : and being confcious to yourfelf of your defire not to manage, but to be managed by the Great Leader, pray hold off, and refute to admit fears of being left to your own management : for however rational, well -grounded, and but juft in a fort, thefe may appear to you fromyour fins, affure yourfelt; they are the fruit of unbelief, and meafuring God's ways by our own ; and if you yield to them, you are in a fair way to bring on you that which you feared. To believe over the belly of felt foolithnefs, that God will be as good as his word, is molt acceptable to him, and moll for our intereft; though the difficulty thereof, in praélice, is great; whereby it appears the more to be of God, and a trial and proof of faith. I fpeak the more confidently of this, that fometimes I have feen in fuch circumilances I could not have known where to have fixed my feet, had not thiPdoarine offree grace pointed out to me a fure ground ; and I would pity them from my heart that would look on this as a dangerous courfe, and tending to make one carelefs and untender. ---I have your further account of the affair of tranfporting Gronovius to Edinburgh, which is a favour to m ,t I with it may fucceed, whether he be of my mind witli fpe& to the points or not. Were the Hebrew language itteif brought amongst us into greater reputation, 'peo- ple. would perhaps hear the points' before they would condemn them. If he has vented any thing to the prejudice of their divine authority, it is likely it will be improven to letTen the credit of my efiày indufirioufly. It is an ill-natured world. I forgot to tell you in the due place, that I do not forget, but have a hearty concern in the matter of your obtaining a partner in trade ; that you might be delivered from that overwhelming engagement in buínefs you have to long been immerfed in and yet, after all, it mull be owned, that one is *ell employed
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