_To the Same._
_London, Jan. 18, 1744._
THIS afternoon I received your kind letter, and thank you a thousand
times for your great generosity in lending me some furniture, having
little of my own. I know who will repay you. Next week, GOD willing,
my dear wife and little one will come to _Gloucester_, for I find it
beyond my circumstances to maintain them here. I leave _London_, GOD
willing, this day sev’nnight. Your affairs and concerns are mine. I
shall lay them before our common Lord. My brother will receive a letter
about my wife’s coming. She and the little one are brave and well. But
why talk I of wife and little one? Let all be absorbed in the thoughts
of the love, sufferings, free and full salvation of the infinitely
great and glorious _Emmanuel_. Blessed, for ever blessed be his holy
Name, for such happy beginnings of another year! How would it rejoice
you to see the many thousands in this metropolis, like new-born
babes, desiring to be fed with the sincere milk of the word, that they
may grow thereby. This, if I know any thing of my heart, is all my
salvation, and all my desire. In respect to other things, at present
I know this is, and I trust always will be the habitual language of my
heart: O blessed GOD,
_Thy gifts, if call’d for, I resign,_
_Pleas’d to receive, pleas’d to restore;_
_Gifts are thy work; it shall be mine,_
_The giver only to adore._
That both of us may be always kept thus minded, is the earnest prayer
of
Yours most affectionately,
_G. W._