Treatise Life And Death Of John Fletcher
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-treatise-life-and-death-of-john-fletcher-038 |
| Words | 381 |
May His rod and staff
comfort you under all the troubles of life, the decays of the
body, the assaults of the enemy, and the pangs of death ! May you stand in the clefts of the Rock of Ages, and be safely
sheltered there, when all the storms of justice blow around ! And may you always have such spiritual and temporal helps,
friends and comforts, as I have found in your pleasing
retreat! You have received a poor Lazarus; (though his
sores were not visible;) you have had compassion, like the
good Samaritan; you have admitted me to the enjoyment of
your best things; and now what can I say? what but,
‘Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift; and thanks to
my dear friends for all their favours? They will, I trust, be
found faithfully recorded in my breast, when the great
Rewarder of them that diligently seek him will render to
every man according to his works; and a raised Lazarus
shall then appear in the gate, to testify of the love of Charles
and Mary Greenwood, and their godly sister ! “I was a little better, but I now spit blood, more than I
had done for weeks before. Glory be to God for every provi
dence | His will be done in me, by health or sickness, life or
death. All from Him is, and, I trust, will be, welcome to
“Your obliged pensioner,
FROM HIs LEAVING NEWINGTON, TILL HIs RETURN FROM
1. HE continued with Mr. Greenwood at Newington
upwards of fifteen months. The Physicians then advised him
to make a trial of the Hot-Well water, near Bristol. “I was
desired by Mr. and Mrs. Ireland,” (who took him down in
April, 1777) says Miss Thornton, “to bear them company
thither; which I willingly did. Indeed I looked upon it as
a call from God; nor could I desire a greater honour, than to
share in the employment of angels, in ministering to a dis
tinguished heir of salvation. At Brislington, near Bristol, he
continued in the same holy, earnest course as at Newington. Every day he drank the Hot-Well water, and it agreed with
him well. So that he appeared to gather a little strength;
though not so swiftly as was expected.