Dear Friend,
I have received your greetings, good wishes, and exhortation with much joy, and shall follow the
latter as far as it will please our great God to give me light and strength. I can say but little for
myself, and can do nothing of myself, but I hope the Lord will conduct me in his time, by his way,
to this end; and I shall not shall not shrink from his fire;--I do long for it; and when he assures my
ways, I hope he will give me power to bear the cross meet therein. I am also glad to hear the
journey hath been prosperous, both in constitutions of your bodies, to withstand the badness of
the weather, and in the reception you had in Cassel, Frankfort, and Krisheim. Nothing surprised
me there, but the good old Dury, in whom I did not expect so much ingenuity, having lately
written a book, entitled Le Véritable Chrétien, which speaks in another way. I wish to know what
reception you have had at Fredericsburg, and if this find you at Cleve, I wish you might take an
occasion to see two pastors of Mulheim, who do really seek the Lord, but have some prejudice
against your doctrine, as also the Countess there. It would be of much use for my family to have
them disabused; yet God's will be done in that, and all things else, concerning
Your loving Friend in the Lord Jesus,
Elizabeth.
P.S. Let both your friends and companions receive my hearty commendations there.
1. 1.. Penn, Travels, pages 88-89; Sewell, History, Vol. II, page 171.