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ness and truth approve; God appears just, and yet justifies the ungodly; sins are freely pardoned, and vengeance is taken on man's inventions; God doth not at all acquit the guilty, yet who shall lay any thing to the charge of his elect? a price is paid, yet man is saved by grace; mercy and grace are glorified, yet holiness and justice are honoured; Satan is outdone by infinite wisdom, and the lawful captive is delivered; by grace, through faith, a man is saved, and faith is the work of God; by works a man is justified, yet none are just before God but such as cease from working; saints are nothing, and yet the least of them are great when God is all in all. Surely I should understand the King's most gracious speeches, were I ever to be admitted to tread the courts of the chapel royal again; but I shall shortly join in the worship performed by the more perfect family. Steward, my most faithful, affectionate, and invaluable friend, I love you for your plain, honest, and undissembled dealings; and admire your unfeigned faithfulness and loyalty to the great King. Accept my most hearty thanks for all favours. I am going! I am going! The field is fought, the battle is ended, the day is won, and the crown, the crown, is eternally mine. Adieu! adieu!'

Shepherd. A glorious end! "O that I may die the death of the righteous, and that my latter end may be like his!"

Steward. That you will die the death of the righteous, I have not a single doubt: but there are but few that make so triumphant and so glorious an end as Little Faith: and no wonder, when he had waded through so many trials; and was so effectually crucified to the world, and so free from the love of money, which is the root of all evil. When the root of all evil is cut, the root of the matter takes hold; and, when a man withers to the things of this world, he flourishes in those of the next.

Shepherd. Pray, when and where do you deposit his remains?

Steward. He is to be interred on the Lord's day next. The burying-spot that he fixed on is in the Fuller's Field: it was purchased at a great price, to be a burying-ground for strangers; and, as Little Faith was both a stranger and a pilgrim upon earth, he desired to lie there. About a week ago, he wrote a letter, and gave it to Deborah, which she was to deliver to me after his departure: in which he has desired me to see his funeral rites performed; a stone erected; and an Epitaph, of his own composing, inscribed thereon. As I shall now be exceedingly busy, and not able to call again at the hut, I invite you to the funeral, where I hope to see you without fail.

Shepherd. If God permit, I will attend. Till then, Heaven protect us both!

Steward: Amen!

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THE

CRY OF LITTLE FAITH

HEARD AND ANSWERED,

AND HIS

INNOCENT CAUSE UNDERTAKEN AND PLEADED,

IN

A LETTER TO A FRIEND.

AND BEGINNING TO SINK, HE CRIED, SAYING, LORD, SAVE ME! AND IMME-
DIATELY JESUS STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND, AND CAUGHT HIM, AND
SAID UNTO HIM, O THOU OF LITTLE FAITH, WHEREFORE DIDST THOU
DOUBT?
MATT. XIV. 30, 31.

TAKE HEED THAT YE DESPISE NOT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES.

MATT. XVIII. 10.

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