From Oliver Cromwell to His Daughter. Oct. 25th 1646.
“YOUR friends at Ely are well: your sister Claypole, I trust in mercy, is exercised with some perplexed thoughts. She sees her own vanity and carnal mind, bewailing it; she seeks after (as I hope also) what will satisfy. And thus to be a seeker is to be of the best ‘sect’ next to a finder; and such an one shall every faithful seeker be at the end.
“Happy seeker! happy finder!
“Whoever tasted that the Lord is gracious without some sense of self, vanity, and badness?
“Whoever tasted that graciousness of His and (became) less in desire, less than pressing after full enjoyment?
“Dear heart, press on; let not husband, let not anything cool thy affections after Christ. I hope he will be an occasion to inflame them. That which is best worthy of love in thy husband is that of the image of Christ he bears. Look on that, and love it best, and all the rest for that. I pray for thee and him, do so for me.”