Excerpt from The Joy of Faith in the Shadow of Death: Addressed to the Respectable Family of the Blakers of Bolney, in Sussex, Upon the Death of an Indulgent Husband, a Tender Father, and an Honest Believer in Christ I run jufi now received my kinfl friend's af feetionate and flipporting epiflzle, for which I beg you to accept a thoufand thanks from me. For thefe three days flail (belicica my other troubles) fomething has been fuggefiod to my mind, that, if my poor father is taken away, you will then favour us no more with your rummer vifits, and that we {hall no more hear from you, or be favoured with the comfort of your acquaintance. But I defire to be thankful to God that this is only a fuggeltiou from the enemy. I much fear, my dear friend, that you will no more fee my dear father's face in the fiefh; (or it is not expected that he will be alive when you receive this. 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.