but that time may be again repeated? Indeed, I want words as well as time to express with what thankfulness I desire to subscribe myself, dear madam,
Your unworthy brother
and obliged servant in our common Lord,
G. W.
LETTER CLV. To Captain M.
Dear Sir, Savannah, Jan. 31, 1740.
I Rejoice to hear of your good health, and take this opportunity of sending you Mr. Law's and Mr. Haliburton's life; which I pray God to sanctify to your benefit and comfort. I hope you will watch over your heart, and take care to keep up those convictions, which God once put into your soul. I am afraid of Mr. B. The world, the world I fear has got hold of him. Dear Captain M, I trust, will not desert his Master.—I am sure he would die, rather than prove false to an earthly prince.—Oh let him not desert his dear Redeemer's colours. Dear Sir, beg of God to root out of your heart a desire for that honour which cometh of man. Till dead to the world you will not be alive to God. Honour, falsely so called, has destroyed millions. That you may be never carried away with, or ruined by it, is the hearty prayer of, dear Sir,
Your's, &c. G. W.
LETTER CLVI. To the Rev. Mr. W. T.
Savannah, Jan. 31, 1740.
My dear and honoured Brother,
BLESSED be God, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants.—I am abased to think what our all-gracious Redeemer hath done by my unworthy hands, and rejoice to hear that he is working by your's. Oh that you may experience fresh anointings and teaching from above! O that you may be strengthened by God's mighty power in the inner man, and pull down satan's strong-holds daily. God willing, I hope to be with you at the Synod. I find as yet I scarce
