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our comfort, it matters not where our bodies lie, if ſo be our ſouls are enfolded in Chriſt's arms. Yet among the miſeries and threats of death, which I have undergone in taking care of the ſpiritual welfare of thoſe whom God has committed to my charge, I cannot but be greatly comforted when you tell me the French Proteſtant church in England flourishes; and that the members of it 'walk worthy of their calling,' gaining by their inoffenſive way of living, a good repute among ſtrangers; when in their native country ſo much inhumanity appears towards thoſe of the reformed profeſſion; for the perſecution in many places rages ſtill by their impoveriſhing of thouſands of families, But not to be tedious to you, having nothing left to ſend you but my good wishes and prayers, except the encloſed account of a very ſtrange, but bleſſed alteration in the family of the Count Alanſon, a worthy nobleman very well known to you. I have drawn it up upon the ſtricteſt enquiry into the truth of all the material circumſtances, as well as my ſufferings, and ſpare time, that the care of thoſe under my charge would permit; and ſend it to you as a token of my love, for the many kindneſſes I have received at your hands: that ſo you might communicate it to others, and make it public if you ſee occaſion: that all may be made ſenſible of the wonderful goodneſs of Almighty God, and praiſe him for the works he doth unto the children of men. For the certainty of what I have written, though I have been obliged for method's-ſake to uſe a few expreſſions of my own, you may firmly rely on my integrity, who am always a well-wiſher to the health of your ſoul and body.
A. D'AUBORN.
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