But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

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.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

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.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

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.