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To William Hayley Esqre, Felpham
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near Chichester, Sussex
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Sth Molton Street Decembr 11. 1805
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Dear Sir
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I cannot omit to Return you my sincere & Grateful
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Acknowledgments. for the kind Reception you have given my New
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Projected Work. It bids fair to set me above the difficulties.
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I have hitherto encounterd. But my Fate has been so uncommon
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that I expect Nothing--I was alive & in health & with
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the same Talents I now have all he time of Boydells Macklins
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Bowyers & other Great Works. I was known by them & was look'd
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upon by them as Incapable of Employment in those Works it may
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turn out so again notwithstanding appearances I am prepared for
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it, but at the same time sincerely Grateful to Those whose
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Kindness & Good opinion has supported me thro all hitherto. You
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Dear Sir are one who has my Particular Gratitude. having
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conducted me thro Three that would have been the Darkest Years
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that ever Mortal Sufferd. which were renderd thro your means a
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Mild & Pleasant Slumber. I speak of Spiritual Things. Not of
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Natural. of Things known only to Myself & to Spirits Good &
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Evil. but Not Known to Men on Earth. It is the passage thro
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these Three Years that has brought me into my Present State. & I
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knothat if I had not been with You I must have
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Perish'd--Those Dangers are now Passed & I can see them beneath
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my feet It will not be long before I shall be able to present the
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full history of my Spiritual Sufferings to the Dwellers upon
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Earth. & of the Spiritual Victories obtaind for me by my
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Friends--Excuse this Effusion of the Spirit from One who cares
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little for this World which passes away. whose Happiness is
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Secure in Jesus our Lord. & who looks for Suffering till the time
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of complete Deliverance. In the mean While. I am kept Happy as I
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used to be. because I throw Myself & all that I have on our
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Saviours Divine Providence. O What Wonders are the Children of
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Men! Would to God that they would Consider it That they would
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Consider their Spiritual Life Regardless of that faint Shadow
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Calld Natural Life. & that they would Promote Each others
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Spiritual Labours. Each according to its Rank & that they would
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know that. Recieving a Prophet As a Prophet is a Duty which If
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omitted is more Severely Avenged than Every Sin & Wickedness
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beside It is the Greatest of Crimes to Depress True Art & Science
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I know that those who are dead from the Earth & who mockd &
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Despised the Meekness of True Art (and such, I find, have been
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the situations of our Beautiful Affectionate Ballads). I know
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that such Mockers are Most Severely Punishd in Eternity I know it
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for I see it & dare not help.--The Mocker of Art is the Mocker of
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Jesus. Let us go on Dear Sir following his Cross let us take it
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up daily Persisting in Spiritual Labours & the Use of that Talent
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which it is Death to Bury. & of that Spirit to which we are
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called--
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Pray Present My Sincerest Thanks to our Good Paulina whose
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kindness to Me shall recieve recompense in the Presence of Jesus.
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Present also my Thanks to the Generous Seagrave. In whose Debt I
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have been too long but percieve that I shall be able to settle
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with him soon what is between us--I have deliverd to Mr Sanders
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the 3 Works of Romney as Mrs Lambert told me you wished to have
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them--a very few touches will finish the Shipwreck Those few I
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have added upon a Proof before I parted with the Picture. It is
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a Print that I feel proud of on a New inspection. Wishing You &
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All Friends in Sussex a Merry a Happy Christmas I remain Ever
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Your
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Affectionate
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WILL. BLAKE &
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his Wife CATHERINE BLAKE
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