_To the Countess of D――――._
_Bristol, Feb. 1, 1749._
_Honoured Madam_,
WILL your Ladyship pardon me, if I inform you, that love and gratitude
constrain me to send your Ladyship a few lines? As I am daily praying
for the temporal and eternal welfare of your Ladyship, and your
honourable sister, so I cannot help informing you, that I trust you
have both such a view of the present great salvation, purchased for the
very chief of sinners by the blood of CHRIST, that you will neither of
you be at rest, till made real partakers thereof. Has not your Ladyship
already had a taste of this inward happiness? Assuredly you have.
Should not this encourage your Ladyship to expect, seek after, and
pray for unspeakably more? Undoubtedly it ought. The fulness which is
in JESUS is inexhaustible. Out of that fulness your Ladyship may be
always receiving grace for grace. Thanks be to GOD for teaching you the
way! Let not your honoured sister think herself too unworthy of such
a mercy. JESUS is worthy; she hath nothing to do but to bring all her
unworthiness to the LORD our righteousness, and accept of compleat
salvation as a free gift. Hearing, when last in town, that your
Ladyship would not be offended if I wrote, encouraged me to take
the liberty of troubling your Ladyship with this. As the glorious
_Emmanuel_ enables, it shall be followed with my most fervent prayers,
which have been, are, and, through JESUS CHRIST strengthening, shall
always be put up in behalf of yourself, and your honourable sister, by,
honoured Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most obliged, obedient humble servant,
_G. W._