But that you may be thoroughly sensible of the many and great
obligations you lie under to the Lord for his love, and to your parents
for their care: and with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your
strength, turn to the Lord, to his gift and Spirit in you; and hear his
voice, and obey it, that you may seal to the testimony of your fathers,
by the truth and evidence of your own experience: that your children's
children may bless you, and the Lord for you, as those that delivered a
faithful example, as well as record of the truth of God unto them. So
will the grey hairs of your dear parents, yet alive, go down to the grave
with joy, to see you the posterity of truth, as well as theirs: and that
not only their nature, but spirit, shall live in you when they are gone.
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I shall conclude this account with a few words to those who are not of
our communion, into whose hands this may come; especially those of our
own nation.
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Friends, as you are the sons and daughters of Adam, and my brethren after
the flesh, often and earnest have been my desires and prayers to God on
your behalf, that you may come to know your Creator to be your Redeemer,
and Restorer to the holy image that through sin you have lost, by the
power and Spirit of his Son Jesus Christ, whom he hath given for the
light and life of the world.
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