Hugh Judge letter to Sarah Rodman, Danby, 20th of the 9th month 1791

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Dearly Beloved Friend      Danby the 20th of the 9th month 1791
Sarah Rodman  
                             In some sense of that union and fellowship, which unites the followers of Christ, our holy head and high priest do I tenderly and affectionably salute thee thy honoured parent adn der Sisters, and may inform that you have been often, since our last parting, fresh and preciously with me, in that Love, which neither distance, nor time will wear out, tho antient, yet ever now, springing up as a will of Life in he Soul, and spreading scarcely towards the iving baptised Members of the one true Church, however remotely scatter'd, breathing forth this Langauge, Lord, be near to help the needy, the poor and disconsolate, the Tossed and not comforted, with a little of thy saving help; how precious is this sense which he Everlasting Father, the Creator of the ends of the Earth, hath bestowed on us, that notwithstanding we are distantly remote, are as Epistles in one another's hearts Read and known there, and in Character is estigible than Man can in grave, May we ever endearvour to walk worthy of the vocation where unto we are called; but