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Excerpt from Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble, the World to Come, or Visions of Heaven and Hell and the Barren Fig Tree Children, grace be with you. Amen. I being taken from you in presence, and so tied up that I cannot perform that duty, that from God doth lie upon me to you ward, for your farther edifying and building up in faith and holiness, &c. yet, that you may see my soul hath fatherly care and desire after your spiritual and everlasting welfare, I now once again, as before from the top of Shemir and Hermon, so now from the 'lion's den, ' from the 'mountain of the leopards, ' (Song iv. 8.) do look yet after you all, greatly longing to see your safe arrival into 'the desired haven.' I thank God upon every remembrance of you; and rejoice even while I stick between the teeth of the lions in the wilderness, that the grace, and mercy, and knowledge of Christ our Saviour, which God hath bestowed upon you, with abundance of faith and love; your hungerings and thirstings after further acquaintance with the Father, in the. Son, your tenderness of heart, your troubling at sin, your sober and holy deportment also, before both God and men, is a great refreshment to me; 'for you are my glory and joy, ' 1 Thess. ii. 20. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.