ſince my laſt to you at
Bideford we have had
the pleasure of receiving two Letters from you, one
from
Barnstaple, the other from
Crediton, both which gave us pleasing
accounts of
your ſucceſs in the important Cause, what you collected
at
Exeter and
Topsham I think is extraordinary. I am glad to hear
ſome of the Clergy undertake for you, which no doubt is furtherance
to the
Affair, I find you have left the Collection in ſome places to the
management of them and other Ministers by which you will ſee whether
that will answer your purpose, I am ready to think it will not
and
that if you was to make personal application and preach to the People,
where
they receive one Pound, you would two Pounds, but that I leave.
I observe your
immediate going to
London on your return to
Exon is
not absolutely fix'd but that a Letter you expect from your Friends in
London is to determine it. If it is for the
good of the great Cause we
ſhould rejoice to ſee you here first for do aſsure you that wou'd be indeed
a great pleasure to us and to Friends in general. It gave us
concern
to have ſo poor an account of dear
M.r Occom, hope the Lord has remov'd
his complaint and that this will find him perfectly recovered. May
the
Lord ſtill
ſtand by and ſupport you under every trial that you may
meet with and keep you above all your
fears and discouragements, He
is ſtronger than all your adversaries and has the Hearts of all Men at
his command and
can turn them as the Rivers are turned, Instances of
w.
ch
which you have met with ſince you have been embark'd in this
glorious undertaking, which are as ſo many encouragements for
you ſtill to go on trusting alone in the ſtrength of the Lord. Thro
the great goodneſs of God we and all your Friends that I now can
recollect here are well and
many did they know I was writing
wou'd beg to be remember'd
t'ye.
M.rs Ludlow,
my Daughter
&
ſelf
do heartily join in tendering our cordial Love and respects to you
and
M.r Occom and that we may be ſharers in both your Prayers
is the desire of
Pray present our best Respects to Meſs.
Kinsman and
Gibbs and their Familys.