Vol 16 - TO JONET KENNEDY.

TO JONET KENNEDY.
Loving and dear Sister,
GRACE, mercy, and peace, be unto you!. I received your letter. Keep your taste, your love, and your hope in heaven; it is not good that your love and your LORD should be in two sundry countries. Up, up after Him; that ye and he may be together. A King from heaven has sent for you; by faith he showed you the New Jerusalem, and taketh you along in the SIIRIT, through all the dwelling houses in heaven, and says, " All these are thine: this palace is for thee and CHRIST." If ye only had been the chosen of GOD, CHRIST would have built that house for you and himself: now, it is for you and many others also. Take with you in your journey, what ye may carry with you, your conscience, faith, hope, patience, meekness, goodness, brotherly kindness for such wares as these are of great price in the country whither ye go. As for other things, the world's vanity and trash, since they are but the house sweepings, ye shall do best not to carry them with you; ye found them here,—leave them here, and let them keep the house. Your sun is low; be nigh your lodging against night. We go, one by one, out of this great market, till the town be empty, and the two lodgings, heaven and hell, be filled. Antichrist and' his master are busy to replenish hell, and to seduce many: and stars, great churchlights, are falling from heaven; and many are misled and seduced, and sell their birthright, by hunting for I know not what. Fasten upon CHRIST. Though. my cross were as heavy as ten mountains, when he putteth his shoulder under me and it, it is but a feather. I please myself in the choice of CHRIST; I rejoice that he is in heaven before me; GOD send a joyful meeting, and in the mean time the traveler's charges for the way, I mean a burden of CHRIST'S love, to sweeten the journey, and to encourage a breathless runner; for when I lose breath in climbing up the mountain, he maketh new breath. Now, the very GOD of peace establish you to the day of his appearance!
Aberdeen,
Yours in his only LORD JESUS,
Sept. 9, 1637.
S.R.