cordial salutations to all. O that we may all increase with all the increase of God! Your sentiments concerning Mr.
H's book, are very just. It has gone through six editions. The author of it is my old friend; a most heavenly-minded creature, one of the first of the Methodists, who is contented with a small cure, and gives all that he has to the poor. He is very weak, and daily waits for his dissolution. A neighbouring clergyman near him preaches the gospel; and a physician, formerly a noted Deist, has lately espoused the interest of Jesus of Nazareth. We correspond with, though we cannot see one another. We shall ere long meet in heaven:
There pain, and sin, and sorrow cease, And all is calm, and joy, and peace.
I recommend myself most earnestly to your prayers, and am, reverend and dear Sir,
Yours most affectionately, G. W.
LETTER DCCLXIV. To Mr. J D.
London, July 12, 1749.
My dear Friend,
I Am obliged to you for your kind letters; for the trouble you have been at about the money, and for all favours. Was I to follow my own inclinations, I would come and thank you in person; but I fear providence will not permit me to embark for America this fall. However, I am looking up, and looking about me, and trust our Lord will point out his way before me. I am not at all uneasy at what one of your clergy may have said of me; I am only sorry upon his own account; having known more than once, that God delights to plead the cause of the injured. I trust I can say, that with simplicity and godly sincerity I desire to have my conversation in the world; and I hope it is my daily study to keep a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man. Whilst this is the case, we need not fear what men or devils can say, or do unto us. They can only speak all manner of evil against us falsely: and that our Lord hath taught us to expect. They can only kill the body; blessed be God, the
