But you have compell'd me to it. May our great and common Mafter give it his Bleffing. Yet a little while, and I embark for Georgia. My worldly Affairs I have fettled, and have taken Care of my dear Child. Perhaps I may never see your Face in the Flesh again. However we must all appear before the JudgmentSeat of Christ Jesus; there, there, my dear Brother, will I meet you, and then Jefus Christ himself fhall determine which is in the Right. But God forbid it fhould be left undetermined till then: No, I do not defpair of feeing Saul among the Prophets. I do not despair of seeing you also become a Fool for Chrift's Sake. God has begun a good Work in our House, I believe he will carry it on. He has given me my Brother Benjamin, and will he not give me my Brother Thomas also? I hope he will; at leaft, I hope he will never be forgotten in the Prayers of his Affectionate, though weak and unworthy Brother in Christ, From Blendon, in Kent, June 16, 1739. William Seward, The Indwelling of the Spirit, the common Privilege of all Believers. A SERMON Preached at the Parish Church of BEXLY in Kent, on Whitfunday, 1739. JOHN vii. 37, 38, 39. In the last Day, that great Day of the Feast, Jefus food and cried, Saying, If any Man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath faid, out of his Belly Shall flow Rivers of living Wa ter. But this fpake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him fhould receive. N OTHING has rendered the Crofs of Christ of less Effect, nothing has been a greater Stumbling-Block and Rock of Offence to weak Minds, than a Suppofition, now current among us, that most of what is contained in the Gofpel of Felus Christ, was defigned only for our Lord's first and immediate Followers, and confequently calcu Hh 2 |