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under the shelter of the Lord: Infinite & abundant is that
shelter. Oh that you & I could with Luther, sing over all
our sins & fears, be they what they will, the 216th Psalm;
"God is a refuge for us, a present help in trouble." Here is our
comfort, this world is not our Country; a few days will
call us hence. The good Lord manage all, your works, and
open such a window from Heaven, that both you and I, and
all that seek the Lord, may be thoroughly transformed to a
hearty Jay, even in divers temptations; and know the
reason through grace, why the blessed spirit did put
that clause into the holy scriptures, for our patience
and solid comfort Jam'. 1.2. We are cha[r?n]gable, no rest
here; and his will it is so; that we might not relish
any thing in this world so sweet, as to tempt away our
hearts from lovely Canaan, and the desireable fellowship
of Christ, face to face.

'Tis our wisdom to turn our thoughts from poseing upon any af-
firtion itself, and rather be endeavoring to find out the lesson
which God is teaching thereby; for that is properly our work, in
that Christ hath borne the curse for us: he hath taken away
the wrathful penalty, and left only an awakening & instructory
nature in all the afflection that his People meet with, Ira 27. 7,
8, 9. and 63.9. Proh: 89. 30.31.32. &c. Oh that we could believe this, and
redeem our precious time, to learn the will of God, and to be
fashioned more to his likeness under earthly fears and [burdthen??],
endeavoring to keep a spiritual palate for right relishing spiritual

under the shelter of the Lord: Infinite & abundant is that
shelter. Oh that you & I could with Luther, sing over all
our sins & fears, be they what they will, the 216th Psalm;
"God is a refuge for us, a present help in trouble." Here is our
comfort, this world is not our Country; a few days will
call us hence. The good Lord manage all, your works, and
open such a window from Heaven, that both you and I, and
all that seek the Lord, may be thoroughly transformed to a
hearty Jay, even in divers temptations; and know the
reason through grace, why the blessed spirit did put
that clause into the holy scriptures, for our patience
and solid comfort Jam'. 1.2. We are cha[r?n]gable, no rest
here; and his will it is so; that we might not relish
any thing in this world so sweet, as to tempt away our
hearts from lovely Canaan, and the desireable fellowship
of Christ, face to face.

'Tis our wisdom to turn our thoughts from poseing upon any af-
firtion itself, and rather be endeavoring to find out the lesson
which God is teaching thereby; for that is properly our work, in
that Christ hath borne the curse for us: he hath taken away
the wrathful penalty, and left only an awakening & instructory
nature in all the afflection that his People meet with, Ira 27. 7,
8, 9. and 63.9. Proh: 89. 30.31.32. &c. Oh that we could believe this, and
redeem our precious time, to learn the will of God, and to be
fashioned more to his likeness under earthly fears and [burdthen??],
endeavoring to keep a spiritual palate for right relishing spiritual