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LETTER I.
My dear Friend,
Cannot omit any convenient Opportunity that offers, to let you know I am yet (thro' Mercy) upon the Stage, and in Health. A Line from you would be acceptable. When you do write, let me have a particular Account of the Seceding Brethren, viz. Meſſieurs Erskines, &c. how it goes with them, what Progreſs they make.We of New-York, have been lately favoured with a ſhort Viſit from that excellent young Evangeliſt, the Reverend and famous Mr. George Whitefield, in his Voyage to Georgia. Aſſoon as he arrived here, he applied himſelf to the Parſon of the Engliſh Church, (as his Manner is) for the Uſe of his Church, which was denied him: Application was alſo made to the Dutch, for their large Church, which being alſo denied him, he went out and preached in the Fields, to a very large Auditory of all Profeſſions, Jews and Gentiles; ſome of which, viz. the Rakes of the Town, came (as they afterwards told) with Whiſtles in their Pockets, on Purpoſe to mock and diſturb him: But, behold the Power of the Word, when backed by the Spirit, quickly catch'd them, and made them change their Mind, ſo as ever afterwards they were conſtant and devout Hearers of him. Being denied the other Churches, and the Weather being exceſſive cold, we offered him our Church, which he was pleaſed to accept of, and lecturedwhich
