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by promise to reward his faith, and crown his hope; hischildren were inheriting it, from generation to generation, untilthey were driven out of it, for the lack of wisdom, andrebellion. O my soul! praise God for the Gift of Faith,and obedience to live in His Fear, so shalt thou possessthe Land of Light, Life, and Peace, which Abraham's obe-dience entitled him to forever, which was typified by theoutward Canaan, that his seed did inherit, by the specialPromise of Jehovah, who conversed with him from Hea-ven. I am surrounded with angelic spirits, who seem toencourage me to be faithful a little longer, then Abrahamthe father of the faithful, will see one, who went out at theCommand of God, not knowing whither she went, but asthe Spirit directed her feet in righteousness, to seek the lost sheep of the house of Israel. [New York, 31st 8thmo. 1805.]