_To Lord R――――._
_London, Nov. 10, 1748._
_My Lord_,
I Believe I am not mistaken, in thinking that your Lordship will not
be offended with me for sending you a short letter. It is the effect
of that unfeigned love I bear to your honoured father, yourself, and
that dear and honourable family with which your Lordship is now so
closely allied. And what shall I say? Can I wish your Lordship any
thing greater, than that you may be a good soldier of JESUS CHRIST. It
is a blessed thing to be engaged in fighting his battles; and not only
to be almost, but altogether a christian. It is this half-way religion
that undoes the professing world. The heart can never be at unity with
itself, till it is wholly centered in GOD. This can only be done by
faith in JESUS CHRIST; and when once a soul begins to taste of this
faith, then that soul’s heaven begins on earth. I trust I can say this
by happy experience. I wish your Lordship a very large share of it; and
with hearty acknowledgments for all favours, beg leave, to subscribe
myself, my Lord,
Your Lordship’s most obedient, obliged humble servant,
_G. W._