THIS comes to inform you that I am in daily expectation of a funeral, and of a jubilee. The day of an apprentice's apprenticeship, is called a day for burying his wife. I have been an apprentice fourteen years, I have served for a wife, and for a wife I have kept sheep, and espoused many, not for myself but for my Lord. I have under him, fed many sheep of his pasture, and throughout the whole time I have been a servant of servants, a servant to the church, and a servant to the lenders of money; for as the wise man says, "The borrower is servant to the lender."
Under this yoke I have truly been a wild bull in a net; thousands of petitions, and millions of tears have not been sufficient to remove it, only to make it sit more easy. I have at times drawn back in the yoke, and then pushed forward, started aside, and then kicked up, and after all have been obliged to drop down in the furrow, and longed for the moles country, where the servant is free from his master. When the yoke is removed I will have a jubilee and a feast at my house, under which I conclude in love and affection,
Your willing servant in Christ Jesus,
W. HUNTINGTON.
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