_To Lady H――――._
_August 21, 1748._
_Honoured Madam_,
I Received your Ladyship’s letter late last night, and write this
to inform your Ladyship that I am quite willing to comply with your
invitation. As I am to preach, GOD willing, at _St. Bartholomew_’s on
_Wednesday_ evening, I will wait upon your Ladyship the next morning,
and spend the whole day at _Chelsea_. Blessed be GOD, that the rich and
great begin to have an hearing ear. I think it is a good sign that our
LORD intends to give to some at least, an obedient heart. Surely your
Ladyship and Madam _E――――_ are only the first fruits. May you increase
and multiply! I believe you will. How wonderfully does our Redeemer
deal with souls. If they will hear the gospel only under a cieled roof,
ministers shall be sent to them there. If only in a church, or a field,
they shall have it there. A word in the lesson, when I was last at
your Ladyship’s, struck me. “_Paul_ preached privately to those that
were of reputation.” This must be the way I presume of dealing with
the nobility, who yet know not the LORD. O that I may be enabled, when
called to preach to any of them, so to preach as to win their souls to
the blessed JESUS! I know your Ladyship will pray that it may be so.
As for my poor prayers, such as they are, your Ladyship hath them every
day. That the blessed JESUS may make your Ladyship happily instrumental
in bringing many of the noble and mighty to the saving knowledge of his
eternal Self, and water your own soul every moment, is the continual
request of, honoured Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most obliged, obedient humble servant,
_G. W._