[Gutenberg 62944] • Experiments of Spiritual Life & Health, and Their Preservatives / In Which the Weakest Child of God May Get Assurance of His Spirituall Life and Blessednesse Etc.

Excerpt from Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health, and Their Preservatives: In Which the Weakest Child of God May Get Assurance of His Spiritual Life and Blessednesse, and the Strongest May Finde Proportionable Discoveries of His Christian Growth, and the Means of It

The circumfiances under which it was written are certainly peculiar. It feems that his wife, to whom he appears to have been tenderly attached, had been dangeroufly ill, but was now recovering. During her fickness he had been from home, labor ing among the Indians; and while abfent, he wrote this little treatife in the form of a letter to her, his object being simply to promote her fpiritual improvement. At the requeft of his friends, if was publifhed in London; and a dedication was prefixed to it, addrefl'ed to Lady Vane the Younger. In this dedication, occurs the following remarkable pafl'age The form and fiile I know will feem to this refined age too rude and barbarous, and the truth is, the mofl of it was penned and writ, (so as seldom or never fuch difcourfes were, ) in the thickeft of the naked Indians of America, in their very wild houfes, and by their barbarous fires, when the Lord was pleafed this lait year (more than ordinarily) to difpofe my abode and travel among them.

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