Through all eternity to Thee, Business prevents my enlarging.-I commend your Ladyship, and all your concerns, to the tender mercies of a never-failing Redeemer; and beg leave to subscribe myself, with all poffible gratitude and respect, ever-honoured Madam, Your Ladyfhip's most dutiful, obliged, and ready fervant for CHRIST's fake, OUR kind letter lies by me unanswered, because I had You Write to your dear buy and just before it came to hand. Ere now I hope he hath received it with the books, and is with you, and the other true followers of our most adorable Redeemer, preffing forwards towards the mark of the prize of our high calling in CHRIST JESUS. Q that nothing may hinder us in this heavenly race! Q that we may remember Lot's wife, and never look back! Alas! what is there in this world worth looking back upon? It is nothing, less than nothing. Thanks be to that precious CHRIST, who hath redeemed us out of it. To Him that hath thus loved us, be ascribed all honour and glory now and for ever! My obligations to blefs and magnify our LORD increase daily. It would delight you to fee, how his glory is manifefted among his poor defpifed ones. To-morrow we are again to celebrate the memorials of his dying love. O that we may be prepared according to the preparation of the fanctuary! Bleffed be GOD for a compleat and an everlasting righteousness to appear in; this is the wedding garment; this every poor finner is cloathed with, that truly puts on the LORD JESUS. Well may fuch despise outward ornaments, and trample upon the pride of life. Such things are food only for those that know not GOD. Go on then, dear Mrs. K; go on, all ye my female fellow-foldiers, who are lifted under the Redeemer's banner. 1 banner. As your day is, fo fhall your ftrength be. Look up continually to JESUS; and be fo good as always to remember, when before his throne, Your affured friend and ready fervant, LETTER DCCCCXLVII. Honoured Sir, WITH To Governor B G. W. London, Dec. 20, 1752. ITH great pleasure and fatisfaction, I received and read your kind letter, and took the first opportunity of tranfmitting the inclosed to good Lady Hn, who is now near Briftol. If the fhip which brings this, doth not fail foon, I believe your Excellency will have an answer by the fame conveyance. She is an elect lady indeed; one who hath fairly renounced the world, and scorns to divide her affections between it and her GOD. Her Ladyship corresponds with the Dutchefs of ➖➖➖, but I fear that the latter doth not glory in the cross of CHRIST, fo much as might be wifh'd. You. know, honoured Sir, that we muft have true felf-denial, and a difinterefted fpirit, before we can be fincerely willing to be accounted fools for CHRIST's fake. And yet there is no going to heaven without it. Bleffed be GOD, your fight, honoured Sir, is almoft over; the days are now coming wherein you must neceffarily fay, "I have no pleasure in them." The 71st pfalm, tranflated by Dr. Watts, feems to be fweetly adapted to your circumftances. Part of it was lately fung for your Excellency, by many true followers of the Lamb. I. Still hath his life new wonders feen, Repeated every year ; Behold his days which yet remain, ́ We trust them to thy care. Caft him not off, fhould health decline, Or hoary hairs arise; And round him let thy glories fhine, Whene'er thy fervant dies. I doubt I doubt not but the LORD JESUS will fay, Amen. Whether Ifhall have the pleasure of feeing you on this fide eternity, is uncertain. It was no fmall felf-denial for me to leave America without going to the Northward; but the cloud moved towards England. Here (O amazing condefcenfion !) the glorious Emmanuel vouchfafes ftill to own and bless my feeble labours. In Scotland, Wales, and the parts in and near Yorkshire, we have feen bleffed days of the Son of Man. I am now in my Winter quarters, longing for Spring, to take the field again. Had I a thousand tongues and lives, JESUS fhould have them all. I am forry, quite forry that not one of his minifters could venture over the Atlantick for New-Jersey College. Two general collections have lately been made upon other occafions in Scotland. What a pity, when all circumftances concurred, that fuch a favourable opportunity should have been loft? I can only lament that, which I did all I could to prevent. And now, honoured Sir, I must bid you farewel. Ere long I hope to fee you in a better world: perhaps we may meet again in this. Dear America is much upon my heart. Thanks be to GOD, Bethesda is now put on a good and flourishing foun dation, and I hear hath efcaped the late hurricane in SouthCarolina. Great are thy judgments, O'GOD;-and great are thy mercies alfo! both paft finding out. To the infinitely great and gracious I AM, do I moft earnestly commend both you and yours, and with ten thousands thanks for all your unmerited favours, I beg leave to subscribe myself, honoured Sir, Your Excellency's moft obliged, dutiful, Ο NE would imagine, that you and I were never to meet any more on this fide eternity. I often, often think of you, and long to fee and converfe with you; but GOD only knows when. We are now about to erect a new Tabernacle eighty foot square, which I fear will detain me in England the enfuing enfuing Summer. Pen cannot well defcribe, how white the fields have been, and how ready to harveft, in Wales, Scotland, and the North of England. I could fometimes fcarce tell, whether I was in or out of the body. Grace! grace! I am now in Winter quarters, where our LORD gives us fresh conquefts, gained by his word every day. We do not dispute, but love. I find more and more that truth is great; and however seemingly crush'd for a while, will in the end prevail. But there must be a kind of death upon every promise, and upon every thing that is done for GOD. Thus hath it been with Georgia and Bethesda. O that we may learn to wait! Then fhall we certainly see the salvation of GOD. I pity our dear friends in Charles-Town. O GOD, how great are thy judgments, as well as thy mercies! May they hear the rod, and who hath appointed it! My foul is diftreffed for them. May this fevere correction make them truly great! When you fend any thing to Savannah, I fhould be obliged to you, if you would fend a few things to Bethesda. Our LORD will bless you for it. I hope there are now above twenty negroes at work upon the new plantation. May the LORD JESUS convert them, and every other member of my family! And O that I may be converted myself more and more every day and hour! I am afhamed of my being fuch a dwarf in religion, and of my having fo little of the mind of CHRIST. I hope you, my dear old friend, do find his grace fufficient for you, to keep your heart above the world, and continually alive to GOD. My prayer for you is, that you may have power to get wealth, and grace to improve it for the Redeemer's glory, and his people's good: then you will be rich for both worlds, and GOD, even your own GoD, will give you and yours his bleffing. Why do you not write to dear Mr. S? He is a heavenly-minded man indeed, and my bofom friend. I fuppofe Mr. D will acquaint you of my having been at his house; we are kind friends ftill: he and his very much regard you. What cannot GOD do? How faithful is he to those, who “seek first his kingdom, and the righteousness thereof." Let thefe words be written over your ftore-house door; or rather let them be written on the table of your heart. I can add no more. A variety of bufinefs demands my attention. My dear man, farewel. Had I wings, I would fly' and and fee you, and my other never to be forgotten Philadelphia friends. Continue to pray, and perhaps I may yet come fooner than expectation. My wife joins in fending love to you and your houfhold. Accept the fame in the most endearing manner, from one that loves you more than a brother, even Yours, &c. LETTER DCCCCXLIX. My dear Friend, To Mr. C-W. G. W London, Dec. 22, 17527-、 Have read and pondered upon your kind letter with some degree of folemnity of fpirit. In the fame frame I would now fit down to anfwer it. And what fhall I fay? Really E can scarce tell. The connection between you and your bro-ther, hath been fo close and continued, and your attachment to him so necessary to keep up his intereft, that I would not willingly for the world do or fay any thing that may separate. fuch friends. I cannot help thinking, but he is still jealous of me and my proceedings; but, I thank God, I am quite easy about it. Having the testimony of a good conscience, that I have a difinterested view to promote the common falvation only, I can leave all to him, who I am affured will in the end speak for me, and make my righteousness as clear as the light, and my just dealing as the noon-day. I more and more find, that he who believeth doth not make hafte; and that if we will have patience, we shall find that every plant, which our hea venly Father hath not planted, however it may feem to have taken very deep root, fhall be plucked up. As I wrote to goodLady Hn, fo I write to you, dear Sir.-I blefs GoD for my stripping seasons. I have seen an end of all perfection, and expect it only in him, where I am fure to find it, even in the ever-loving, ever-lovely JESUS. He knows how I love and honour you, and your brother, and how often I have preferred your intereft to my own. This, by the grace of God, I fhall ftill continue to do. My reward is with the LORD. If he approves, it is enough. More might be faid, were we face to face. When this will be, I cannot tell. Several 2 things, |