Having been informed of your godly ' love, so well- ordered, I rejoiced greatly, and determined to commune with you in the faith of Jesus Christ. For as one who has been thought worthy of a divine and desirable name, in those bonds which I bear about, I commend the Churches, in which I pray for a union both of the' flesh and spirit of Jesus Christ, " who is the Saviour of all men, but specially of them that beheve ; " ^ by whose blood ye were redeemed ; by whom ye have known God, or rather have been known by Him ; ^ in whom enduring, ye shall escape all the assaults of this world : for " He is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which ye are able." s