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Title
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1743 Letter to Brother Hagen from John Brownfield
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Creator
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Brownfield, John, 1714-1752
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Publisher
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Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Date
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January 1, 1743
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Type
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Text
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Format
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image/jpeg
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Description
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This is a letter from John Brownfield from Savannah, Georgia, to Brother Hagen of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It is dated January 1, 1743. Brother Brownfield humbly asks Brother Hagen for help as he would like to come back to the Bethlehem congregation.
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Subject
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Brownfield, John, 1714-1752--Correspondence
Moravian Church
Religious life--History--18th century--Correspondence
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Identifier
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GAP-4
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Language
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English
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Extent
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2 pages
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Rights Holder
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Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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transcript of
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Savannah January 1, 1743.
My very dear & beloved Brother Hagen
As often as I feel the mercy of the Saviour in my heart I am bound willingly to thank him for the day he sent his grace by you amongst us & to me in particular. Your letters by our dear Brother Snell & Husey bring a sweet smell in them from the slaughtered lamb. I daily feel afresh the love that you showed amongst us when here The Saviour makes it now dearer to my heart because I have lately felt more of my misery & unworthiness, than before Indeed we did not think that the Saviour would any more visit us as he has now done. I know 'tis alone the Free Grace of the Saviour that hath moved the dear Congregation to look upon our wretchedness, & the Brethren are content to help us & to bear with us in much love This makes me long most earnestly to come to the clear knowledge of the bleeding Lamb because I see as it were face to face how beautiful his anointed ones are. It is my hearty longing to be with the Flock at Bethlehem. I am not yet free of my employers business yet my Saviour gives me confidence that he will soon make my way clear. And my dr. Brother Hagen! I desire you to lay my case before the Lamb It is possible he may give me a passage with our Brethren Snell, Husey & Henry my chief hinderance is this. The publick money for payment of the soldiers is not yet sent hither & my chief debts lye amongst those people. I am daily bringing my other matters to an end & the Saviour gives me help through them.
I hope our Brethren's coming here will bring some fruit to the Lamb. I feel in my heart as clear as the sun that he is with us & gives a sweet power to our dear Br. Snell's preaching.Some of the Dutch people that have been a while wandering from the Cross have a drawing now upon their heart & the Enemy begins a little bestir himself. But of these matters, you will have a clearer light in our Brothers own letter.
I pray my Saviour to give me a poor sinner heart so that I may not lose a morsel of the grace he hath sent by our Brethren. It is made open in my heart that I am as yet far from the simplicity love & peace which is laid up in the wounded Lamb for sinners yet I will hang upon his cross till he overstreams my heart & soul with his Blood & Mercies drown all my self life. This the Saviour had made many of the Checomeeko's to partake of: for that which my heart prays the Lamb & hopes to be made a partaker of the same mercy with those dear souls whom I am not worthy to call my Brethren however miserable yet I remain in remembrance with you I than my Saviour for it & am your poor Brother John Brownfield
