and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;

wherefore God has highly exalted and given him a name, which is above every name;

I hope therefore to send him to you as soon as I find what turn my affairs shall take:

but God had pity on him, and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

I sent him therefore with the greater dispatch, that I might have the less disquietude, by the satisfaction you will find in seeing him again.

receive him then in the Lord with all alacrity, and let such be the objects of your esteem: