Dear and truly beloved in the everlasting Seed and holy Covenant of Life Eternal, doth my soul salute you, with Love unfeigned, for by the same holy pure spirit, by which we have been comforted and refreshed in one another many a time when we have been together, by the same are you brought to my remembrance, and my spirit gives thanks to God daily on your behalf (to whom I am knit and united by a bond inseparable) because of your preservation in the faith, and patience of Jesus our Lord, that though the mountains have swelled to a great height, and the waves of the raging Sea hath rolled so violently against the rock of your dwelling; yet you are where you were, and your faith is confirmed through your tribulations, and your patience enlarged through the experience thereof. Oh dear Lambs! What hath our God done for us? His arm hath been underneath in all our trials, else we must needs have fainted long e'er now: But herein doth my soul rejoice, that your testimony doth live, and that all the strength of darkness ha●h not sl●●● it, but it remains as a Crown upon your heads. Oh my dear friends, let no man take away this your Crown, and let none lose the price he hath already paid, for if any man suffer his testimony to fall, after he hath begun to bear it, he loseth his sufferings that he hath suffered, and 'tis not accounted unto him, but as a reproach, as he that began to build an house, and could not finish it: Therefore, dear hearts, you that have this glorious testimony of salvation and life committed unto you, be tender and careful of it, as of your most choice treasure, & count it not a small thing that God hath done for you; for no honour is like unto this honour, nor no freedom is like the being a faithful servant of God; for it hath the reward of this life, and of that which is to come: But alas, my dear friends, none can accomplish this blessed testimony in these days of trial, but those alone, who knows the daily renewing of that power, by which we were called unto it; and none feels those renewings, but they that daily wait upon the Lord, who is the well spring of all our strength and refreshment; and when so ever any comes to slight their watch, and to neglect their waiting upon God, they are but as those that forsake the Fountain, and grows into dryness and barrenness, and becomes unfruitful to God, or their own good: Therefore keep your dependence upon the Lord, that ye may abide, (for he abideth) and they that are built upon him alone, do also abide unto the end; for 'tis the unchangeable power which maketh you unchangeable in your testimony; and as you dwell in that, you have the promise, and cannot be brought to naught, as many have been, who have been exalted in the Knowledge, and grown careless of the Cross, who are already fallen, and set forth (as Lot's Wife once was) as exampses of the judgement of God: but such as have their depondance upon the Lord alone, fe●l● alw●●es cause in themselves to be humble, and lowly minded; and although they be joined to the power of God in the Covenant of his Light, yet self is kept in the death, and the confidence is in the power, and the honour of all is given to that which is eternal, and not to the creature, though never so pure: And they who thus in the true humility gives the honour of their standing and preservation unto the Lord, and not unto themselves, nor their parts, wits, understandings, nor resolutions, these doth God sufficiently honour with his glory and presence, and supports them in all their exercises: But who ever comes to disregard the power, and thinks to stand by what he knows, and hath seen, he stands but in a slippery place.  
And dear Friends and Brethren, Remember to keep holy the Sabbath of the Lord our God which is now come, and see that you rest from your labours and toiling your spirits in the earth, and earthly things; and whoever feels a burden, lay it off, whatever it be, that ye may possess all things in the free spirit, that looks not at the value of any thing in comparison of the truth, remembering the words of the Lord, That where the treasure is, the heart will also be: So that whose heart is in a Wife, in an Husband, in Children, in Trade, in Riches, in Houses and Lands, or whatever else, so far that they cannot willingly give them up for the truth, these are such as one's treasure, and this treasure is in the earth, and the heart is there, whatever they profess; and these things comes to be the gods in the secret chambers besides the Lord; and so his first and lasting Commandment (who said) Thou shalt have none other gods besides me, is broken; and this brings guilt and burdens upon the soul, and then thou canst not keep Sabbath to God, for no burden must be borne thereon, but he that is entered into the rest, is ceased from his labour, as God did from his, and such keeps the holy Sabbath. So, dearly beloved, east away that labour and toil which hath made some to walk uncomfortably in the way, and some to faint and fall from it, and lift up your hearts to God in the faith, and give up yourselves, and all things in his will, and there comes an end of all your cares at once, saveing only to be found doing his will in your Generation.  
And in this blessed service, is my rejoicing, and my fellowship with you, and with all the faithful in Christ Jesus, in whose love my heart is at this time enlarged towards you, beyond what words can utter; yet having no new thing to write unto you, but the very same which we have heard and learned from the beginning, to wit, that glorious testimony of the Resurrection of Life and of salvation, which God, through the manifestation of his Son, hath committed unto us to bear, in which blessed testimony, I still labour in the strength of the Lord, and he hath blessed me therein, and caused me, by the operation of his divine love, to sound the same Gospel unto several Countries and Nations in the Eastern parts of the World, where a door of utterance is opened unto me, and many hath believed, and obeyed the truth; and having now been in England visiting the Churches of Christ about four Months, I am again, in the will of God, about to cross the Seas, though I much desired first to have seen your faces in the Northern parts, whom my soul dear loves; but the necessities of other Nations and Countries, brings a constraint upon me at this time to omit it; but the salutation of my love abounds towards you, and I pray God give you a living sense thereof in yourselves, to the comforting and refreshing of every faithful one amongst you. Farewell, and the God of Peace multiply and increase his goodness in all your souls, and preserve you alive to himself, to bear his holy testimony amongst his enemies, that the World may know that he is risen that saves and preserves from falling, to whom belongs everlasting honour, everlasting renown and dominion for ever, and evermore.  
Essex this 15th. of the first Month, 1670. Your dear Friend and Brother in the Truth, and Companion in the Kingdom, patience, and tribulations of Jesus. S. C.