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thering- tliat 7ioble pious ivork, which I under- 

 stand you are now pursuing. I thank you heartily 

 for the papers you sent me containing your 

 thoughts concerning the public worship of God, 

 directed to Baron Printz. I agree with you in 

 every particular, and I hope his Prussian Ma- 

 jesty will be so affected with it as to establish 

 things according to your plan. And 1 know no 

 public worship in Christendom that comes up so 

 well to your measures as that used among us in 

 the Church of England. I heartily bless God 

 for raising up a prince among- you who has so 

 <^reat a concern for religion and the honour of 

 God. And I do as heartily pray that God would 

 crown his endeavours with success, and that he 

 may live to see the good effect of his glorious 

 designs in the happy union of t/ie divided Pro- 

 testants among you; and in the establishment 

 of such a public worship of God as is most pri- 

 mitive, most pure, most decent, and most con- 

 ducive to the advancement of God's glory and 

 the edification of every soul that joins in it. 



** I ought humbly to beg your pardon for not 

 answering your letter in the same language it 

 was writ in, but I was encouraged to this rude- 

 ness by Dr. Hobart, who tells me that you un- 

 derstand English very well though it is difficult 

 for you to write it. For my own part, though [ 

 can read Latin as well as ever I could, yet foi- 



