letters, and I trust it will yet prove an useful seminary for both white and black persons. I wait to see this great salvation, O Lord! To-morrow, God willing, I shall dine
with Mr. LLord will throw me aside like a broken vessel.—Very dear and honoured Sir, for Christ's sake do you and your worthy collegue continue to pray for me; surely it is an act of the greatest charity. Less than the least of all, shall be my motto still. My heart is full; God forgive me. I am now beginning to enter upon my thirty-ninth year. Lord Jesus quicken my tardy pace! I can no more. But hoping to see you on Friday, and to be furthered in my work and way by your fatherly counsel and instruction, I subscribe myself, very dear and honoured Sir,
, and on Friday morning if possible will endeavour to wait upon you. My hands are full of work, and I hear every day of fresh persons awakened; but I can do so little, and what I do is done so badly, that I fear sometimes myYour most affectionate, obliged son, and ready servant in our glorious Head, G. W.
LETTER DCCCCLVIII. To Lady H
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London, Jan. 13, 1753.
Ever-honoured Madam,
YOUR Ladyship's very kind and christian letter, I have read over and over again. It drew my heart towards the Redeemer, and caused me to pray, that your present retirement, may be a glorious preparative for further, and yet more public usefulness in his mystical body. To have one's hands or tongue tied from acting or speaking for God, is, to a new and heaven-born soul, one of the greatest pieces of self-denial in the world. But this hath been the lot of many of the most choice and holy souls under heaven. It is a mercy, that where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to that which a man hath, and not according to that which he hath not. I beg that your Ladyship would not have the least thought about my concerns, otherwise than at a throne of grace. Your Ladyship wants a bridle, rather than a spur. My highest ambition is to spend and be spent for Jesus, and