APPENDIX. 217 covered, and can spare your watry hunter, I shall be very glad to receave him from you. The assurance of your health will be very wellcome to, Your most affectionate brother, EDW. HARLEY. Westminster, 6 Martii, 1650-1. For his deare Brother, Mr. Thomas Harley. ED. HARLEY to his father. Sir -I trust the same mercy which conducted me safely hither bath com- fortably preserved you. If that confidence did not refresh me, this journey would be very sad ; but I dare not doubt the tender compassions of our heavenly Father to you, because 1 have alwaies experienced your tenderness to me. Thus, I beseech you, give me leave according to our Lord and Saviors precious logick to make some return for your fatherly love to me, with an assurance of an infinite Fatherly love to you. Sir, if our Lord God see it good to permitt Satan to discover his malice, be pleased to consider that your age and weakness, which encourage Satan to assault you : they doe much more assure you of victory, because all the retrenchments from your own ability to resist, doe place you more closely and imediately under the secure protection of the Lord of Hosts, who I doubt not will gra- ciously avenge you of your spirituall adversary ; will make His candle shine upon your head, and having sanctified all His dispensatins towards you, will fully assure you, that having given you His son, how shall He not with Him also freely give you all things. Thus humbly prayes he, who begs your blessing for, Sir, Your most obedient son, EDW. HARLEY. Birmichem, Feb. 2, 1653-4. To his most honored father, Sir Robert Harley, Knt. of the Bath, at Ludlow, present these. CAMD. SOC. 2 F
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