To the same: encouragement to hold out in suffering.

What this letter is. A July letter of the 24th, 1749, from Mülheim to the same brother as a week before — Johann Peter Schmitz of Solingen (the old print suppresses the name: "To the same"). The argument: encouragement to hold out in suffering.

Your hand. It still refreshes him every time, when he sees the brother's hand, though it grieves him that the brother troubles himself so much. How unspeakably will it then refresh, when they greet and embrace one another in that glorious kingdom of our God. There they will fall at the feet of their great Redeemer, and with eternal adoration honour the abyss of His undeserved love, and lose themselves in this unground of the divine love.

One hour. It seems to him the Saviour calls graciously to them: can you then not suffer one hour with Me? They will it, and with Him they can it. The prayer turns to Jesus: be Thou with us, that we may only suffer with Thee, until we overcome with Thee. Because He has trembled and been dismayed for us, look not upon it when poor nature will at times fear. They yield themselves unconditionally to Him and to all His good-pleasure, and desire to do it with closed eyes. Carry Thy work out through Thyself. Yea I will do it, saith Thy Spirit in our hearts. Amen.

Hope is Jesus. He, and all the dear children here, greet the brother heartily and assure him of their brotherly helping-hand in the Spirit. Be of good cheer in God, and honour the Lord in suffering and trust: He will reach you your daily bread. The ground of our hope is Jesus, who has loved us and given Himself for us; to Him they long to live, to suffer and to die, and to glorify Him they await an endless eternity. Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!

A few words and echoes.

• To the same. An denselben — the same Schmitz as 119.
• dearly beloved brother. Rule B arm 1. The old print's hertzlich (salutation wrap hertz=/lich and close alike), in the house orthography. English heartily at the close (adverb, not the salutation formula).
• our eternal Salvation. leaf unserem (with e).
• your hand. deine Hand (his ¹ deine Handschrift, deinen handgeschriebenen Brief. lives at Recension).
• it grieves me. leaf leyd thut (y).
• will it then refresh. wird es dann nicht erquicken — consecutive dann, kept.
• kingdom of our God. Reich unsers GOttes — GOtt GO digraph, not letterspaced.
• unground of the divine love. Ungrund der göttlichen Liebe — KEEP Ungrund (1799 Ungrunde not adopted).
• Can you then not suffer one hour with Me? his German, not a KJV insert (his ² Vgl. Mt 26,40.). Consecutive dann, kept. Not a rhymed verse.
• Lord Jesus! HErr JEsu! — HE digraph; JE digraph, -u.
• Be Thou then with us. God-apostrophe in the prayer; consecutive dann, kept.
• Thou hast trembled. gezittert und gezaget hast (his ³ Mk 14,33.) — hast with Thou stays hast.
• desire to do it. leaf begehren (plain g; 3× zoom against a prior beehren misread). Benrath running text begehren concurs. Not beehren.
• Carry Thy work out. leaf Werck → panel Werk (his ⁴ Hes 17,24.).
• saith Thy Spirit in our hearts. spricht dein Geist in unsern Herzen — the old print's Hertzen (tz — review-corrected), folded Herzen. wills thun no apostrophe.
• I, and all. leaf comma after Ich, — not dropped.
• we assure you. leaf versicheren (1799 versichern not adopted).
• honour the Lord in suffering and trust. ehre den HErrn im Leyden und Vertrauen.
• the ground of our hope is Jesus. leaf Hofnung (single f) → panel Hoffnung; JEsus JE digraph, -us (his ⁵ Gal 2,20.).
• Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! three (1775 wrap Ewigkeit. JE= / sus! JEsus! JEsus! — review-corrected from the mis-recorded JEs=; 1799 and Benrath concur). Not four.
• eternally devoted brother. ewig-verbundener Bruder — standalone Dein → Your, never Yours.