you who labour, and are heavy n, and I will give you rest." (Matt. xi. 28.) Do then, I earnestly and affectionately entreat you, do deceive yourselves, by thinking since God is mer1, that you need not be anxious about your present duct or future state This would be a dreadful error eed. It is true that Jesus, the Rede mer of his peohas laid down his life for us, that we might depart n evil, and stand accepted in the Divine sight; that we y be delivered from the bondage of sin and satan, and ught into the glorious liberty of the sons and daugh❤ s of God; but if we would profit by these proofs of love, we must accept of his salvation on the terms he rs it; we must be his true disciples by forsaking sin, I endeavouring to do the will of God upon earth as it done in heaven. Remember, we cannot enter the gdom of everlasting rest, to join the celestial company saints and angels, till we have learned to lament our st transgressions, and have suffered the blessed Saviour the world to cleanse our hearts from evil, that they y be filled with the graces of the Holy Spirit. He s given us all a time for repentance; he has offered the means of being saved in him, with an everlastg salvation; but if we neglect these means, if we sufthis day of gracious visitation to pass away unimproved, eadful indeed will be our state.

Recollect you are now in time, to-morrow you may be in ernity! Work then while it is day: for the night comh wherein no man can work. The blessed Jesus himIf declared, in effect, to the Jews, If ye believe not that am, and die in your sins, whither I go you cannot come. John viii. 21, 24.)

Do not think that you are sufficiently prepared for eterty, if you go to some place of worship, and abstain from ross sins; for if you become acquainted with your own earts, through that grace with which the Almighty merciully visits the children of men, you will be humble under a ense of his goodness, and your own unworthiness; you

will then become of the number of those w blessed, saying, "Blessed are they that mo shall be comforted; blessed are the poor theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. v

And you dear young people, who may rea let me, in real desire for your happiness, inv member your Creator in the days of your yout that he sees all your actions, and knows all y that without his blessing you cannot really could not be happy, even if you possessed contains. It is only by knowing and servi that you can have peace; for, "There is no wicked, saith my God." (Isa. lvii. 21.) B then, to look up to your heavenly Father friend: He hath assured us, They that seek shall find her. (Prov. viii.) Ask and ye seek and ye shall find, knock and it sha (Matt. vii. 7.)

The blessed Jesus received little children, fer little children to come unto me, and not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven!" time he declared, "Whosoever shall not rec dom of God as a little child, he shall not e (Markx. 14, 15.) Be humble then, be simpl to the teachings of Him, who will be as a S little ones of his flock. Do not continue i of any thing, which, when you have done it siness over your minds, but follow those thi for your peace; this attention to small thin to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of Saviour Jesus Christ. He that is faithful in be made ruler over more. To-day then, you hear his voice, harden not your hearts; and your souls shall live!

LETTER

FROM

WILLIAM PENN,

TO HIS

WIFE AND CHILDREN.

NO. 12.

New-York:

PRINTED BY MAHLON DAY,
No. 372, Pearl-street.

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LONDON, 1814

A LETTER, &c.

Y DEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN,

My love, which neither sea nor land, nor death itself, an extinguish or lessen towards you, most endearedy visits you with eternal embraces and will abide with you forever: and may the God of my life watch ver you, and bless you, and do you good in this world nd for ever! Some things are upon my spirit to leave with you in your respective capacities, as I am to one a usband, and to the rest a father, if I should never see you more in this world.

My dear wife! Remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life, the most beloved, as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts : and the reason of that love was more thy inward than thy outward excellencies, which yet were many. God knows, and thou knowest it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making: and God's image in us both was the first thing, and the most amiable and engaging ornament in our eyes. Now I am to leave thee, and that without knowing whether I shall ever see thee more in this world, take my counsel into thy bosom, and let it dwell with thee in my stead while thou livest.

First Let the fear of the Lord, and a zeal and love to his glory dwell richly in thy heart; and thou wilt