The Epile Dedicatory. abundant, towards you : fuch bath been my love to yon, that you were in- my heart to live and dye with Jett : I could willingly in winter and fummer, in all chan- ges, have continued your fervant, as Jacob ferved La- ans flvck in the heat and in the cold': My heart is open to you, as a Bridegrooms heart and houfe is open to receive the Bride ; and had your forger been like the laft manifeftations of your =love towards rue, I am aÇ' Cured all the proffers and perfwafions of the world fhould never have drawn me from you.. Great is the power and flrength of affeùion, with which faithful' Miniflers love the Lords people : as grace is more powerful' then nature, fo is their love ftrongerriien the love of naturne : Non mimic vos diligo (faith A n- brofe) quosgenuiex Evangelio, quarna fi fufcipifem con - jugio ; gratia quippe vehementior efl ad dil agendum quam natura. I love you no leffe whom I have begot- ten by the Gofpe!, then if I had begotten yeiu in ma- trimonial' conjunUìon ; becaufc grace bath more energy and vehemency in the way and work of love, then nature. And in my unfained love, and as a pledge and teflimony of my never-dying lové,I have lent you there papers, .part of which is the loft Legacy I had beflow upon you at the time of my departure from you : It is very ufefull for all Chri`ílians rd retie* the memory of the pall labours of Gods Meffengers. Every good child deliires a copy of his Fathers will, to fee his Fathers love, to know his Fathers gift, to remember and obferve his Fathers charge and coutr- cell : Children within force few dares after their Fa- rhers death expeet the receipt of their Parents Lega- cy and bequeath ; and loving children are ever very glad to accept, and very careful' to keep their parents laíl
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