Martha Routh letter to Thomas and Charity Rotch, Liverpool, 28th of 7th month 1809

               
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                       Liverpool 28th of 7th Month 1809
   My endeared frds T & C Rotch,
                     Often very often, have you been
  in near remembrance since our last parting in love
  [illegible] and in the renewings of that cementing
  fellowship which will last beyond time; that your
  spirits may be comforted thereby while the path of 
  tribulation may accompany an entrance into the
  kingdom of Heaven, is the fervent solicitude of my
  spirit for you as for myself; feeling an increasing
  desire that all the called and chosen of our God,
  whether afflictions arise from within or without, 
  on the right hand or the left, in heights or depths
  from circumstances past, present or to come, may
  not be able to turn us aside, from the love of Truth
  above all or shake our confidence in the renewed
  sufficiency of the Lords power; who faileth not in
  the day of trouble to send help from his sanctuary,
  and strengtheneth out of Zion, his humbly depend=
  =ing Children whose eye and cry is simply to him.
        Please to present me in Sisterly regard to
  Richd Jordan, and offer him one of the Epistles,