(_NECESSITY OF MAKING SURE OF SALVATION--VANITY OF THE WORLD--NOTHING WORTH HAVING BUT CHRIST--FLIGHT OF TIME._)

MUCH HONOURED SIR,--I long to hear how your soul prospereth. I earnestly desire you to try how matters stand between your soul and the Lord. Think it no easy matter to take heaven by violence. Salvation cometh now to the most part of men in a night-dream. There is no scarcity of faith now, such as it is; for ye shall not now light upon the man who will not say he hath faith in Christ. But, alas! dreams make no man's rights.