My dear friend Time and circumstances did not permit me on Tuesday evening, when I saw you at Barrowden, to do anything more than merely acknowledge the receipt of your letter....
My dear friend, Isaac Harrison I am glad that I did not go to Leicester this last visit in vain. I felt encouraged by the good attendance all the times I...
My dear friend, Isaac Harrison I purpose, if the Lord wills, to leave Oakham for Leicester on Tuesday morning by the coach, and intend to bring my wife and little girl...
My dear friend, Isaac Harrison I am sorry that I shall not be able to be with you on Lord’s-day, April 21st. I am sorry it should happen so; but I...
My dear Sir, Few greater afflictions can befall the people of God than the removal of a faithful and beloved pastor. It generally happens, if he has been long going in...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I am glad you did not stand upon ceremony with me, and wait until I answered your first letter. I seem slower at writing letters than...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I think sometimes that no one professing to fear the Lord can be more tempted, tried, and exercised, than I am with sin. Unbelief, infidelity, and...
My dear friend, Beecher I was glad to read your experimental letter, as I have many trials and temptations, both as regards myself and the ministry; and a word of encouragement...
It is with great reluctance that I bring forward any matters relating to myself; and yet to disarm (if possible) enemies, and to afford some explanation to friends, I have thought...
My dear friend, John Grace I am much obliged to you for your kind and affectionate letter, and for the unpublished letter by Huntington which it contained. It is a very...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I hope I may say I am, through mercy, mending somewhat under the treatment I am passing through here. The doctors give me encouragement to believe...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin Knowing that I am poorly, you will not expect a long letter from me. Still I will (D.V.) try and write a few lines. As regards...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I hope I may say I am gradually mending. Still, it is very slow; indeed, scarcely perceptible, and the time of year is against me. The...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I was truly sorry to learn that you had been so seriously ill; but at the same time was equally glad to hear you were better....
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I have been very poorly with the influenza, and, indeed, kept my bed nearly four days. I am now, through mercy, better, but still tender against...
My dear friend, John Grace I hope that by this time you are fully recovered from your fall, and have had additional proof that, if a sparrow cannot fall to the...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin If I delay much longer to write you will think I have fulfilled the old saying, “Out of sight out of mind,” or that something has...
Dear Friend I shall be very glad to have any or all of the late Mr. Gadsby’s letters which you can furnish me with. They generally contain much of the fullness...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin When I tell you that my poor sister, Mrs. Watts, is dead, you will not be surprised at the paper on which I write. She departed...
My dear George Isbell I am truly glad to learn that my dear mother and sister have been supported under this heavy trial and affliction; and I hope they may still...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I hope I may say I am better. I preached here last Lord’s-day morning, and went up and prayed in the meeting in the afternoon, and...
My dear friend, Joseph Parry I hope I may say I am through mercy better in health. I have partially resumed the work of the ministry, having commenced to preach once...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin. I am much as I was in health, and do not seem to gain much strength at present. I still continue to preach once on the...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I believe you have long found, by painful experience, that it is impossible to do anything according to the word and will of God without trouble...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin We arrived here safely, through mercy, on Tuesday evening, and found my mother looking pretty well. Friend D. is supplying at the chapel, but is not...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin It is a mercy amid all one’s coldness, deadness, and hardness sometimes to feel a little revival, and to be blessed in speaking of the Lord’s...
My dear friend, Joseph Parry You will be very sorry to hear that our poor friend M’Kenzie is dangerously ill. He broke a blood vessel on Saturday last, and brought up...
My dear Tiptaft I consider poor Mrs. C.’s case a very trying one, and one very difficult indeed to pronounce any decided opinion upon. Say, for instance, that we gave it...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin We were well attended at Leicester. Many, I am told, could not get into the chapel in the evening. I hope it was a good day,...
My dear friend, Joseph Parry I reached home safely, through mercy, on the Friday, to dinner, and found my dear wife and little family pretty well. I preached at Wellingborough Thursday...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin It seems that troubles and trials still await me, and what is to be their end or outcome, I know not. I was thinking the other...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin We had a church-meeting here, on Lord’s-day, and received two candidates for baptism. They were both well received, being well known to the friends and hearers...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I never came to London more unwillingly. I left Oakham very poorly, and weak in body and tried in mind, and called myself a thousand fools...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I believe on the main points of experimental truth and vital godliness we see eye to eye, and feel heart to heart, and this makes us...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin I was so poorly on Saturday night, and coughed so much during the night, that I almost despaired of being able to preach at all. I...
My dear Mr. Beecher From various causes I have not been able to attend earlier to your kind and friendly letter. I think sometimes that Satan, seeing the Lord has blessed...
My dear Friend, Joseph Parry, It is a mercy that where the Lord has begun a good work He will carry it on, and bring it to perfection. If it were...
My dear Friend, Thomas Godwin My (lack of writing), I can assure you, has not arisen from lack of friendship and affection. Since I have had so many enemies and so...
My dear Friend, Thomas Godwin You must not measure my feelings towards you by the frequency of my letters. Letter-writing to me is usually quite a task; unless there is something...
My dear Friend, Thomas Godwin Before the February number of The Gospel Standard came out, I saw that I had laid myself open to attack upon the point which you so...
My dear Friend, Thomas Godwin I am glad you are coming our way, but am sorry your stay will be so short. It generally takes a little time before we get...
My dear Friend, Thomas Godwin I would have answered your kind and friendly letter before, had not my time been so much occupied. I have been down to Stoke, to pay...
My dear Friend, Thomas Godwin It was my intention (D.V.) to write to you today, even if your kind letter had not met me here on Saturday. I feel for you...
My dear Duncan Mathieson I have indeed reason to bless the Lord for the way in which in His mysterious providence and grace He has condescended to spread and bless my...
My dear Friend, Mr. Godwin I think sometimes when I am gone and carnal feelings buried in my grave, my writings and sermons will be more understood than they are now;...
My dear Friend, Miss Richmond I hope, if the Lord wills, and health and strength be given, to speak a little at Stadham on Thursday evening, the 23rd, on my way...
My dear Friend, Mr. Godwin You seem favoured with two great blessings — health of body and health of soul. Such blessings are they, that without them life is not life....
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin, Mrs. S. gave a sweet and blessed testimony before the Church. I never heard a sweeter account of the love of God shed abroad in a...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin, I had a hard day’s work yesterday, and having a bad cold, was almost unable to finish. The baptistry here is most inconvenient, being so long;...
My Dear Friend, Mr. Grace I am much pleased with Miss H___’s letters. There is a freshness, a simplicity, and a naivete about them which, with their slightly foreign English, are...
My dear Friend, Mr. Grace I am much obliged to you for your kind and acceptable present, which came safely to hand. I much like what I have read of Huntington’s...
My dear Friend, Mrs. Peake You have given me, in your kind and affectionate note, so friendly and cordial an invitation, that I cannot feel it in my heart to decline...
My dear Friend, Mr. Godwin I desire to sympathize with you in all your trials and sorrows, which the Lord has laid upon you so very heavy and severe. But I...
My dear friend, John Grace, I am exceedingly obliged to you for your kind present of the fourth volume of the invaluable “Posthumous Letters of William Huntington”, and for your friendly...
My dear friend, Miss Richmond, I am much obliged to you for your kind communication of the closing scenes of our lamented friend’s earthly life. I perceived, when I last saw...
My dear friend, Thomas Godwin. I believe you will be pleased to hear that, through rich mercy, I have been brought through my labours here much better than I anticipated. I...
My dear Friend, Mr. Grace, I shall be most happy to see you at Stamford in October, but I cannot by any means consent to your being a hearer, for which...
Dear Friend, I am sorry I cannot accept the invitation contained in your kind and affectionate letter. My will is to labour in the vineyard; but I do not possess the...
My dear Friend, Mr. Grace, I received quite safely both your kind letter and the book. I have not had much time as yet to read the latter, but like what...
My dear friend, Miss Richmond, I am much obliged to you for your kind and sympathizing letter, and the invitation therein contained. I am much pleased to learn that the Lord...
My dear friend, John Grace, I cannot call to mind any distinct promise to review (my usual way of noticing) Huntington’s letters. I may possibly do so, but much must depend...
To The Deacons and Members of the Church of Christ Assembling themselves for the worship of God at Gower Street Chapel, London, mercy, peace, and love be multiplied: My dear friends,...
My dear friend, Jesse Crake, I hope this illness has not altogether been unprofitable to me, as during it I have had many seasons of prayer, meditation, and reading the Word...
Dear Mr. Tips, friend and Brother in the Lord of Life and Glory, I received and read with much interest and pleasure your gratifying letter, the whole of which I was...
My dear Richard Healy. I was glad to receive a few lines from you, and still more pleased to learn that you were once more enabled to set up your Ebenezer...
My dear Friend Mr. Tips, I hope that the blessed Lord, who has called you by His distinguishing grace, who has planted His fear in your heart—a precious new covenant blessing...
My dear friend, I fear that you will almost think that I have forgotten you by not writing before; but you know how much I am usually engaged in writing until...
Dear Mr. Copcutt. I am much obliged to you for the interesting account which you have given of the removal from this valley of tears of both your parents, and hope...
Dear friend, For such I call you, though personally unknown; yet I trust we know by grace the same things, and therefore in that sense are known to each other in...
My dear Mr. Parks, I am much obliged to you for your kindness and courtesy in sending me your pamphlet upon Chastisement. I like it very much, and think it is...
My dear friend, Joseph Parry. Since I last wrote to you I have been very unwell; indeed, I have been confined to my bed for the last ten days. One thing...
My dear friend, John Grace, We shall be glad to see you if you can contrive to give us a look-in by the way; but should have been better pleased if...
My dear Friend, I was glad to receive a few lines from you, and to find that your poor body was so far strengthened as to be enabled to use your...
My dear friend, John Grace, It is a great pity that those who are opposed to ‘believer’s baptism’ should have taken such high ground. It is very rarely that I feel...
My dear afflicted friend Mrs. Peake, I sincerely desire to sympathize with you under your truly distressing bereavement, and hope that the Lord may support your soul in this season of...
My dear bereaved Friend Mrs. Peake, Nothing but extreme pressure of writing has prevented me dropping you a few lines of sympathy and affection. Pardon the unintentional neglect. The Review and...
My dear friend, John Grace. I thank you for your kind letter and offer to take a number of copies of my meditated little work on The Eternal Sonship of the...
My dear friend, William Brown. I desire sincerely to sympathize with you under your present heavy trial, especially as I have had myself some experience, both of bodily affliction, and also...
My dear friend, William Brown. I still desire to sympathize with you in your present painful trial, and if I can do so better than some others, it is because I...
My dear Friend Mr. Parry, I was intending to write to you soon, even if I had not received your kind and friendly letter, but I have been much occupied with...
My dear Friend Mr. Brown, I was glad to receive your kind and friendly letter, and to learn from it that you had safely arrived at Brighton, and were comfortably accommodated....
My dear friend, Joseph Parry. I was very sorry to hear of Mrs ____’s alarming illness. I do hope that it may please the gracious Lord to raise her up, for...
My dear friend, Mr. Tips, Trials and afflictions are the appointed lot of the family of God, and if we belong to that favoured number, we shall certainly have our share...
My dear William Tiptaft. Many people think that illness is the best time for religion, and for being prayerful and spiritually-minded but this is a great mistake. When the illness is...
My dear friend, William Brown. I am glad to find that, through the rich mercy of the Lord, you have derived benefit from your sojourn at Brighton, and I hope that...
My dear William Tiptaft. I am very glad that you have felt led to render us some assistance in our time of need; I have no doubt that the friends both...
Dear Friend, Mrs. Oyler, I am much obliged to you for your kind and affectionate letter, and the interest which you express in my health and welfare. I am thankful to...
My dear Friends, I write to you both, for I feel that I must, with my own hand, acknowledge your most kind and liberal present; and I trust it has produced...
My dear Friend, Mrs. Peake. We have been both, and still are, in the furnace of affliction, and it is this whereby we learn to sympathize with those who are afflicted....
My dear Friend, Mrs. Pinnell. I was very sorry to hear through a letter, received today from Mr. Tiptaft, that my dear friend Mr. Pinnell did not improve in health so...
My dear friend, William Brown, The Lord has hitherto appeared for you in opening doors for you to preach, and giving you acceptance among His people. This must very much relieve...
Dear friend, You are no doubt expecting a line from me in reply to your last kind letter, wishing me to come over to B. some time in the summer, to...
My Dear Friend, Mr. Godwin. Through mercy, I hope I can say I am progressing in health, and, for the first time since the end of November, went today out of...
My dear friend, John Grace. I received your parcel quite safely, and much prize Miss V.’s kind present. Have the kindness, when you see her, to present her with my Christian...
My dear Mr. Tips. I am glad that the Lord was pleased to give you and your friend a favourable voyage home, and that you found your dear wife and family...
My dear friend, Mrs. Pinnell. I much regret that I shall not be able this time to accept your kind invitation to come to Westwell, as I must reach home by...
My dear Friend Mr. Tanner, I have been glad that you have been able in some measure to overcome the restraint which you have felt, I think I may say without...
My dear friend, John Grace I am much obliged to Mr ____ for his kind message. I have always held him in honour for his steadfast maintenance of sound doctrine. If...
My dear friend, Joseph Tanner. You will not expect me to write you a long letter, but will be waiting to learn whether I object to preaching in the Temperance Hall,...
My dear friend, Joseph Parry. I need not tell you what a trial and exercise of mind this affliction has given me, and how sorry I have been to be obliged...
My dear William Tiptaft. I have reason to hope that my illness last winter was blessed to me, and to others through me; for I certainly had more life and feeling...
My dear friend, John Grace, Trials, sufferings, afflictions, vexations, and disappointments are our appointed lot; and though grievous to the flesh, yet when they are sanctified to the soul’s good, are...
Dear friend, “Love is of God, and he who loves is born of God”; nor is there any sweeter feeling in a Christian’s bosom than to love the Lord and the...
My dear friend, Joseph Tanner. I hope that by this time both you and your dear wife are in some measure reconciled to the departure of your dear son to a...
My dear Mr. Tyrrell. I am obliged to you for your kind letter, and your liberal offer to take twenty copies of a sermon from Isaiah 17:10, 11, if I could...
My dear friend, Joseph Parry. You will probably have seen by The Gospel Standard that I have been in some measure restored from my late illness; but it is a great...
My dear friend, John Grace, The Address (Gospel Standard) too requires some thought and labor, as not only must it be in great degree original, that is to say, not a...
Dear Friends I am glad to find that you are enabled still to hang together as a few people that are united in the love and fear of the Lord; and...
My dear Friend, Mr. Parry. You will be desirous, I have no doubt, to hear how I am this severe weather. I may well call it severe, for we have not...
My dear Friend, Joseph Tanner. I have sometimes wished that it had pleased the Lord to take me to Himself thirty years ago, when I was laid aside with a serious...