Postscript.
Madam, You have so many excellent Comforters round about you that I
even Blush to send what I have wrote; yet since the narrowness of my
Paper has excluded two or three thoughts which may not be impertinent
or useless on this mournful Occasion I will insert them here. You know
Madam that the great and blessed God had but one Son, and he gave him
up a Sacrifice and devoted him to a bloody Death out of Love to such
Sinners as you and I. Can you shew your gratitude to God in a more
evident & acceptable manner than by resigning willingly your two Sons
to him at the call of his Providence? This Act of willing Resignation
will turn a painful Affliction into a holy Sacrifice. Are the two
dearest things torn from the heart of a Mother, then you may ever set
looser by this World, and you have the fewer dangerous Attachments
to this life. 'Tis a happiness for a Christian not to have the heart
strings tyed too fast to any thing beneath God and Heaven. Happy the
Soul that is ready to move at the Divine summons. The fewer Engagements
we have on earth, the more we may live above, and have our thoughts
more fixed on things Divine and heavenly. May this painful stroak thus
Sanctified lead you nearer to God. Amen.