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As for your fears under which you wrestle, it is not the have-
ing or wanting earthly tranquility that is any proper character
of God's, love or anger; but the discovering made of that lies chiefly
in the way of our deportment under such trials, agreeable to the
practice of the faith, recommended to us in the Scriptures by the
Spirit of God. For there is no temptation can be fall us, which has
not been (for substance) the trial of them who have endured and
overcome before us; And you are required to remember that
faith and patience, and the issue God gave, that you do not
succumb or faint; as if God had forsaken the government of the
World, or changed the nature of the "everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things, and Sure". I have been labouring to live upon the
naked promises of God, in reference to my outward com-
ments, as if I were in the want of all things; and I do think if I
could come at it it were a glorious portion. None but the
exercised Believers can tell truely why the promises are called
rich & precious, and how much lies in that word (Rich In Faith)
{ 2.5.} and what extensive satisfaction and glory lies in that word
(Good) "All things for all work together for good to them that love God".
You know these things, & ----As fear or outward disappoint-
ments abound, fly still a higher pitch; till you rejoice in
manifold trials, that God counts you worthy to be listed a-
mong them, who can not be made happy by earthly things,
nor miserable in the want of all things, whether estate,
friends, health, credits, or any thing else, whilst they could
fly to a higher Rock. The Lord direct you & make you launch
forth upon the power, and in the wisdom and under the
shelter