Treatise Life And Death Of John Fletcher
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-treatise-life-and-death-of-john-fletcher-044 |
| Words | 393 |
While he was here, preparing for his
voyage, he wrote as follows to one of his flock at Madeley:--
“I HEARTILY thank you for your kind letter. May the God
of all grace and love, our common Father and our All, bless
you all with all spiritual blessings, and with such temporal
favours, as will best serve the end of your growing in grace. “My desire is, if I should be spared to minister to you again,
to do it with more humility, diligence, love, and zeal. But as
matters are, you must take the will for the deed. And let us
all praise God for all that is past, and trust him for all that is
to come. The Lord enable you all to cleave to Christ, and
in him to abide in one mind, “striving together for the hope
of the gospel, the fulness of the Spirit ! Of this we have
often discoursed together; but we have not pressed into it
with sufficient ardour and violence. God give us the humble
and violent faith which inherits the promises, that we may
always triumph in Christ, in life and in death ! I beg you
would help me to thank the Author of all good for every
blessing of this life; but above all, for the lively hope of the
next, and for Christ, our common hope, peace, joy, wisdom,
righteousness, and salvation. In him I meet and embrace you
all. God bless you, and crown you with loving-kindness and
tender mercies ! I live, if you stand. Do not let me want
the reviving cordial of hearing that you stand together firm
in the faith, deep in humility, and rejoicing in loving hope
of the glory to come. Bless God much for the gift of his
only-begotten Son. Be much in private prayer. Do not
forget the assembling yourselves together, in little companies,
as well as in public. Walk humbly, as in the sight of death
and eternity; and pray still for
“Your unworthy servant,
“Let none of your little companies want. If any do, you
are welcome to my house. Take any part of the furniture
there, and make use of it for their relief. And this shall be
your full title for so doing. “Witness my hand,
10. In the beginning of December, he set out with Mr.