Letter from John Cleaveland to Eleazer Wheelock, 1750 June 7

(3) Very Dear & Revd Sir Divine Providence hath sett us att a considerable Distance from one another (Yet I trust in ye same Vineyard to be com= panions * fellow Labourers in ye Kingdom, and Patience of Jesus.) so that conversation Face to Face is greatly obstructed, which otherwise would be very entertaining & pleasing for mutual Help & Edi= fication and for the Strengthening & encouraging one another in the great & Arduous work of the Gospel Ministry and in watching for Souls as they that must give an account_ However as often as may be I shod be glad to to hold a correspondence with you by writing__ Since I saw you Last I have mett with many Things to try me but not without some ood Fruit F?? I trust to the Praise of Sovereign ^ I wo'd 5[s??] it Grace & I think I can Say no errors of what sort soever have been Broached by such as appeared Friends to the worth work of God in ye Beginning of ye outpouring of God's Spirit in our Day. but what thro the blessing of God I have found a means of Ripenning my Judgment in the Doctrines of Divine Revela= tion exhibited to us in ye Scripture of Truth or rather they have been means of exciting me to enquire what saith ye Scriptures & Diligently to Search the Same to know what ye mind of ye Lord is xc__ and have had a considerable opportunity to make ob= servation on persons appearences xc__ of a Religious nature