Now For My Own Case, I Bless

I Wish Your Increase In Holiness, Number, Love, Religion, And Righteousness; And Wait You, And Cease To Contend With These Men That Are Gone From Us, For There Is Nothing That Shall Convince Them But Judgment.

Farewell All Relations And Friends In Christ; Farewell Acquaintances And All Earthly Enjoyments; Farewell Reading And Preaching, Praying And Believing, Wanderings, Reproaches, And Sufferings.

I Have Followed Holiness, I Have Taught Truth, And I Have Been Most In The Main Things; Not That I Thought The Things Concerning Our Times Little, But That I Thought None Could Do Anything To Purpose In God's Great And Public Matters, Till They Were Right In Their Conditions.

It Is Near Thirty Years Since He Made It Sure; And Since That Time, Though There Has Fallen Out Much Sin, Yet I Was Never Out Of An Assurance Of Mine Interest, Nor Long Out Of Sight Of His Presence.

I Wish There Were More True Conversion, And Then There Would Not Be So Much Backsliding, And, For Fear Of Suffering, Living At Ease, When There Are So Few To Contend For Christ And His Cause.