Love's Letter
July 15th, 1651 [the day he expected to be executed from the Tower of London] "My Dearest Beloved, "I am now going to my long home, yet I must write a word before I go hence and shall be seen no more. It is to beg thee to be comforted in my gain and not to be troubled in they loss. Labour to suppress thy inward fears now that thou art under outward sorrows. As thy outward sufferings abound, let they consolations in Christ also abound. I know thou art a woman of a sorrowful spirit. My time is short; I have but a few words of counsel to give thee, and then I shall leave thee to God who careth for thee and thine. 1. While thou art under desertions, labour rather to strengthen and clear up they evidences for Heaven than question them 2. Remember a faith of adherence or reliance on the Lord Jesus brings thee to Heaven, though thou want the faith of evidence or assurance. 3. Labour to find that (and more also) in God which thou hast lost in the creature. 4. Spend not thy days in heaviness for my death. If there were knowledge of things below or sorrow in heaven, I should grieve to think my beloved should mourn on earth. 5. Lie under a soul-searching ministry. I know thou art not a spongy hearer, sucking in foul water as well as fair. God hath given thee a good understanding, to be able to discern things that differ. As the mouth tastes meat, they ear trieth words. 6. Be conversant in Christian meetings and much in the exercises of mortification, in fasting and prayers, yet have respect to the weakness of they body and they present condition. 7. Have a care of thyself and babes. God will take care of thee and them. I can write no more; farewell my dear, farewell, farewell. My dear, I be thee to be satisfied. My heart is greatly comforted in God. I can quietly submit to the good pleasure of His will, and I hope thou dost so also. I am delivered by the determinate counsel of God; the will of the Lord be done. Read for thy comfort when I am dead and gone, Jeremiah 49:11 and the beginning of 12; Isaiah 9:6-8; Psalm 5:6 and 146:9; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 and Hebrews 12:6-7 These are the last words written by thy dying yet comforted husband. Christopher Love
A Good Conscience - A Rich Reward
Observe from Job's way of answering, in granting what is true and denying what is false, that in every temptation readily there are two things: (1) A true ground. (2) A false conclusion from it. Satan will say, "You are in such a condition, therefore you are not a child of God." Learn then with Job to grant the ground but deny the conclusion. See it also in the woman of Canaan. She is said to be [outside] the covenant, and called a dog; and she grants it is true, yet she pleads that there is some allowance for such. Therefore because something is true, do not believe all is true. It is suggested there is much unmortified sin in you; you have been so long under ordinances, and have not thrived. Yea, you are backslidden. It may be all this is true, yet the conclusion will not follow [that] there you have nothing ado with God. On the terribleness of God to Job, observe that God may show himself terrible, and yet not be angry at the person. He may set you up as a butt [target], cleave your reins assunder, pour out your gall, run upon you like a lion or giant, and yet keep love. Therefore measure not God's love by even his spiritual dispensations, as if God loved not when he looks angry-like. Our senses are not good judges. It is not right reasoning to say, "God lays his heavy hand upon me, therefore he will not look upon me." What if Job reasonsed so? (2) It should stir up folks to consider what God's terribleness will be, when he has no love, and comes to render vengeance to all that know him not. When the fierceness of his countenance shall make all the families of the earth to mourn, who believe God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 12:29). What will be to the wicked? Job's sincerity bears him out in all this. Observe [that] the efficacy of sincerity, and an inward testimony of conscience can keep the soul quiet, and hold a grip of God in the greatest trouble, anxiety and grief. Therefore a good conscience is a rich reward and worth itself. The meek shall inherit the earth. If folks know the worth of this, they would study above all things to keep a good conscience before God and men. The vehemency of Job's asseverations [emphatic assertions], and using them so frequently, and doubling them, is to let us see that it is holy wisdom, and no presumption, when temptation is so violent and presses violently for the soul, not to deny its interest in God, but to assert it the more confidently, and take in fair upon him the head and score of God's grace (so to speak) and in a sort to presume. I say not, presumption is lawful at any time; but because faith will then be presumption to sense, we would set ourselves to do that which seems presumption, to ride near on that side, when the wind blows to such a shore to ply against it; so strong is the way of believing, that the more it is borne down, it breaks the more out. God help us to k eep the right midst [mid-point; center]. {James Durham's Lectures on Job, Chapter 16}
Love’s Letter
July 15th, 1651 [the day he expected to be executed from the Tower of London]
“My Dearest Beloved,
“I am now going to my long home, yet I must write a word before I go hence and shall be seen no more. It is to beg thee to be comforted in my gain and not to be troubled in they loss. Labour to suppress thy inward fears now that thou art under outward sorrows. As thy outward sufferings abound, let they consolations in Christ also abound. I know thou art a woman of a sorrowful spirit. My time is short; I have but a few words of counsel to give thee, and then I shall leave thee to God who careth for thee and thine.
1. While thou art under desertions, labour rather to strengthen and clear up they evidences for Heaven than question them
2. Remember a faith of adherence or reliance on the Lord Jesus brings thee to Heaven, though thou want the faith of evidence or assurance.
3. Labour to find that (and more also) in God which thou hast lost in the creature.
4. Spend not thy days in heaviness for my death. If there were knowledge of things below or sorrow in heaven, I should grieve to think my beloved should mourn on earth.
5. Lie under a soul-searching ministry. I know thou art not a spongy hearer, sucking in foul water as well as fair. God hath given thee a good understanding, to be able to discern things that differ. As the mouth tastes meat, they ear trieth words.
6. Be conversant in Christian meetings and much in the exercises of mortification, in fasting and prayers, yet have respect to the weakness of they body and they present condition.
7. Have a care of thyself and babes. God will take care of thee and them. I can write no more; farewell my dear, farewell, farewell.
My dear, I be thee to be satisfied. My heart is greatly comforted in God. I can quietly submit to the good pleasure of His will, and I hope thou dost so also. I am delivered by the determinate counsel of God; the will of the Lord be done. Read for thy comfort when I am dead and gone, Jeremiah 49:11 and the beginning of 12; Isaiah 9:6-8; Psalm 5:6 and 146:9; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 and Hebrews 12:6-7
These are the last words written by thy dying yet comforted husband.Christopher Love
A good conscience– a rich reward
Observe from Job’s way of answering, in granting what is true and denying what is false, that in every temptation readily there are two things: (1) A true ground. (2) A false conclusion from it. Satan will say, “You are in such a condition, therefore you are not a child of God.” Learn then with Job to grant the ground but deny the conclusion. See it also in the woman of Canaan. She is said to be [outside] the covenant, and called a dog; and she grants it is true, yet she pleads that there is some allowance for such. Therefore because something is true, do not believe all is true. It is suggested there is much unmortified sin in you; you have been so long under ordinances, and have not thrived. Yea, you are backslidden. It may be all this is true, yet the conclusion will not follow [that] there you have nothing ado with God.
On the terribleness of God to Job, observe that God may show himself terrible, and yet not be angry at the person. He may set you up as a butt [target], cleave your reins assunder, pour out your gall, run upon you like a lion or giant, and yet keep love. Therefore measure not God’s love by even his spiritual dispensations, as if God loved not when he looks angry-like. Our senses are not good judges. It is not right reasoning to say, “God lays his heavy hand upon me, therefore he will not look upon me.” What if Job reasonsed so? (2) It should stir up folks to consider what God’s terribleness will be, when he has no love, and comes to render vengeance to all that know him not. When the fierceness of his countenance shall make all the families of the earth to mourn, who believe God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 12:29). What will be to the wicked?
Job’s sincerity bears him out in all this. Observe [that] the efficacy of sincerity, and an inward testimony of conscience can keep the soul quiet, and hold a grip of God in the greatest trouble, anxiety and grief. Therefore a good conscience is a rich reward and worth itself. The meek shall inherit the earth. If folks know the worth of this, they would study above all things to keep a good conscience before God and men.
The vehemency of Job’s asseverations [emphatic assertions], and using them so frequently, and doubling them, is to let us see that it is holy wisdom, and no presumption, when temptation is so violent and presses violently for the soul, not to deny its interest in God, but to assert it the more confidently, and take in fair upon him the head and score of God’s grace (so to speak) and in a sort to presume. I say not, presumption is lawful at any time; but because faith will then be presumption to sense, we would set ourselves to do that which seems presumption, to ride near on that side, when the wind blows to such a shore to ply against it; so strong is the way of believing, that the more it is borne down, it breaks the more out. God help us to k eep the right midst [mid-point; center]. {James Durham’s Lectures on Job, Chapter 16}
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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