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counsellor vouchsafed to accept, and told him not to bother himself with any concern about his weights, to read George Whitfield's works, Mr. Coalheave's sermons, the Missionary Reports, the hymns of the tabernacle, and of the new chapel hard by Sadler's Wells, he forgot the name, and the new magazines for supporting the cause of the brethren, especially their poetry, composed by a brother tradesman of your own, when work was slack in Spittlefields." This client being departed, another made his appearance, a poor, thin, sneaking-looking person. "Well, my friend," said O'Rourke, "how long have you been converted, and what are your doubts?" "Oh, I have been convarted this two months, and have no doubts myself, its my wife that I want to be convarted, as fine a likely woman as is in all Tetbury, if she had but the effectual calling; but