N0 16. APPENDIX. 461 in the work the Sovereign Manager Ihapes out for him, be the kind and meafure of it what it will, and therefore dare not but advife to protect, that it be not taken off, till he who laid it on take it off, with his own hand. Happy are they who are im- peffed with a terror of chufing for themfeives, and hold it for a principle, that he Ihall chufe out the lot of our inheritance for us. We are here as ordinary ; and, remembering your fon, I am, in ftraiteft bonds, V. D. Sir, yours affeótionately, &c. Dec. 30. 1731. (21.) V.D. Sir, Yours of t6th I received ; which refrefhed my bowels, and opened my mouth to return thanks unto God, who had con- defcended to make my last ofryufe to you, and kept you in a way with refpe6t to your affair, which cannot mils of a happy iffue, go as it will. I think I never faw more than about this time, how abfolutely nothing the creature is in pointof aétion and uféfulnefs to us in itfe!f, and how God is all the former nothing, but juif as he touches it for motion, and refting movelefs like a ftone when he moves it not ; and therefore would fain learn to overlook all, and look to him as my party in all things, finding this view of matters mightily ftaying and quieting to the heart, and a promoter of faith and hope. Wherefore let us aim at this, rolling ourfelves fecurely and confidently over on him, whether we fee or fee not whither he is like to carry us : " For he careth_ for us." Let us exercife patience to wait the end of the Lord ; and as fure as the Bible is the word of God, we will fee there was nothing in the conduct of Providence, about us and our matters, that fhould have been out, and nothing, out that thould have been in. O ! he dotli all things well ; no hazard of finging this triumph before the victory. I find my- fell obliged to effay what, you moved to me, whatever the Lord minds to do with me in it : and whether I am to fee the end of it or not, I delire to be found fo doing. I know there is fblid Comfort in that, " Thou didft well that it was in thine heart." You will know fomewhat of the difpofition of my heart by the preníiffes, with refpeót to the fituationof my affair at London. I think I may, if the Lord will, need fo requiring, write Sir Richard Ellys, and in February, or before, if I find my letter to Mr G. fuccefslefs. Take kindly your concern about my fon. We continue here much as ordinary. My love to your fon. I am, in -the ftraiteft bonds, V. D. Sir, yours, &c.
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